9 real-life stories that Hollywood took thrillers

The film "the Last house on the left" was preceded by a large marketing campaign, in which viewers said: "It's only a movie". But how will you feel if these films will be based on very real events? Below is a selection creepy real events that later became the basis for some truly terrible films.

"Pitfall"

"Pitfall" is an Australian horror film about three travelers whose paths crossed paths with a serial killer Mick Taylor. It was a terrible monster that roamed the Australian Outback in search of new victims to kill them and skin them.

All this is quite scary, isn't it?

However, "Wolf pit" there is a real basis: it is loosely based on serial murders committed by a serial killer named Ivan Milat. Like its counterpart in the film, Milat was hunting tourists in the Australian Outback. He grew up there, was a hunter and used their skills to do terrible things.

Ivan Milat

Unlike Taylor, Milat was not skinned his victims. However, he was no less brutal. Milat denied his involvement in the murders, even when there were a few half-decomposed bodies. the bodies were discovered evidence that all these people died a horrible death. Many of his victims, Milat was stabbed at the base of the spine, which caused paralysis. After that, he either shot stationary people, or beaten and then beheaded them. The body he just threw in the desert. His hands have killed at least seven people. 27 July 1997 Milat was sentenced to 7 life sentences plus 18 years.

"Girl next door"

In the movie "girl next door", based on the novel Jack Ketchum, the story is told by David Moran, a banker on wall street. He thinks of a very difficult period of his childhood when he met two sisters — Meg and Susan. After his parents died, they went to live with her aunt. Aunt, played by Blanche Baker, was a complete psycho who began torturing Meg. What's worse, she began to encourage other children to participate.

The film was inspired by real-life murder of Sylvia Lakes, who lived in 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana. My parents left Sylvia and her sister in the care of a nurse named Gertrude Banishevski. Paid her $ 20 a week. Not having received one of the payments on time, Banishevski have transformed the lives of girls in hell, and Sylvia has become the main target of bullying. Banishevski encouraged his children and other children from the neighborhood to torture Sylvia. At first she was putting on her skin cigarette, then came to the beatings and sexual violence. In the end Sylvia was locked in the house like a prison. Then Sylvia overheard Banishevski says 14-year-old neighbor named Richard Hobbs about how she plans to leave the girl in the woods with a blindfold because she tried to escape. Sylvia grabbed, tied up, then Banishevski with a sewing needle has written on belly girl with the letter i.

Gertrude Banishevski

Then she gave the needle Hobbs, who offered to cut on the girl's breast, the phrase "I am a prostitute and proud of it". Sylvia died as a result of a strong blow to the head 26 October 1965. When the police arrived, they found her body lying on a dirty mattress.

It was obvious that she was starved, the whole body was covered with bruises, and it was more than 100 cigarette burns. Banishevski, her son John, daughter of Paul, each Floors Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs was arrested on charges of murder. Banishevski was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Paul was found guilty of manslaughter. Teens were also found guilty of manslaughter, and their prison terms ranged from 2 to 21 years.

"The exorcist"

One of the most shocking and truly terrible films is the film William Friedkin the exorcist. Released in 1973, the film is about a 12-year-old girl named Regan, who became obsessed with an ancient demon. Two priests try to exorcise the demon from the girl's body.

The author of the novel on which the movie idea to write it emerged after the case of a boy named Roland DOE, or Robbie Mannheim. He was born presumably in 1936 and lived in Maryland with his family which started to notice associated with it a strange phenomena, such as spontaneous moving photos and scratching sounds.

Walter Halloran

In 1949, two priests from St. Louis spent several exorcisms. When they did, the boy began to speak Latin, but never knew this language. He also began to spit, and the rash on his skin suddenly changed, and she formed the words and numbers.

Years later, Walter Halloran, one of the priests involved in the exorcism, said that the boy may have just repeated the Latin, which he spoke of priests. He really spat, and it was really red rash, but she was not taken various forms.

"Mothman"

In the movie "Mothman" with the participation of Richard Gere life reporter John Klein is thrown into chaos when he and his wife get in a car accident. He is haunted by the image of a large creature with large red eyes and gray wings. The creature he saw before the accident. Then John finds himself in point pleasant, West Virginia, he doesn't remember how he got there. Once there, he begins an investigation about other sightings of this mysterious creature. Klein soon realizes that the creature always appears before the tragedy.

In the trailer for the film stated that "Mothman" is based on real events. Starting from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967, dozens of people in point pleasant reported that he saw a large creature similar to a giant moth with large red eyes. All of these observations occurred on the eve of the collapse of the bridge SIL bridge. He collapsed during rush hour, 48 people were killed. According to some, the "giant mole" was sent to warn the residents about the impending disaster. After the bridge collapsed, "the moth" in point pleasant was never seen again.

"Child's play"

In this horror movie serial killer, a voodoo practitioner named Charles Lee ray was killed in the toy store. His soul moved in the next doll, but the doll then falls into the hands of a 6‑year-old boy Andy. A doll called Chucky, and it starts killing and the murderer contained in it, trying to take over the body of Andy.

It sounds crazy, but Chuckie was a prototype, a real doll named Robert. In 1903, the 3‑year-old Robert Eugene Otto received the doll from the servants in the Bahamas. Otto named the doll after himself, and ever since then they were inseparable. Soon afterwards, the parents of Otto started to hear two voices coming from a boy's bedroom. One voice belonged to Otto, but not the second. Every time the parents came into the room, everything was in order. Otto grew up, got married, but never got rid of the doll. She was sitting in his room, in a house in the West Keys, Florida. Passing by the house, the children swore that the doll sometimes looks at them from the Windows, and from different. In the mid 70‑ies of Otto and his wife died, and in the house where left Robert, moved to new tenants. They claim that from time to time I hear the laughter, and the doll's face has changed dramatically. In 1994, Robert was transferred to the Museum in Key West and placed under a glass showcase where it can be seen today.

Doll Robert

"The open sea"

This low-budget 2003 film based on horror stories. What happens if you try scuba diving in the sea, and the boat, with which you dived, leaving without you? But that's what happened to a couple from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

January 25, 1998, 34-year-old Tom Lonergan and his 29-year-old wife Eileen became part of a group of divers who went to the reef of St. Crispin, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The boat with the divers went before Lonergan had come to the surface. No one noticed that the couple was gone, they only remembered two days later when the boat found the bag. Then commenced a search operation, but no trace of the pair was found. It is believed that they drowned in the sea.

"Strangers"

In this movie a young couple is located in an isolated house. They terrorized by a group of weird men in masks, with the clear intention to kill. In the promotional trailer of the film claimed that it was based on real events. One of the real prerequisites for this film was the murder of the family of Manson, and Parallels with their history can be traced well in the film: the family Manson killed seven people, breaking into their homes.

However, the basis for the movie is another, no less horrific crime, which is murder in the cabin Teddy.

In 1981, in the Sierra Nevada, California, sue sharp and her five children for two months rented a small house in the popular resort Caddy. On the morning of 12 April sue, her 16-year-old son and his 17-year-old friend was found bound with duct tape and wires. All were killed, the bodies bore marks of severe beatings. All the furniture in the room was broken, the walls of the room were traces of blood. Body found 14-year-old daughter sue, which is the night of the murder was sleeping in a different house. Today, the murder is still unsolved.

"Lost"

The second film, released in 2006 and is also based on the novel Jack Ketchum called "Lost". It tells the story of a psychopath and charismatic teenager named ray Pye (Marc Senter). Pai — 20-year-old man of small stature, which is popular among teenage girls. One night, during a hike with your friends Pye murders two innocent girls from next camping and forcing his friends to help him cover up the crime. A year later, the friends never told about his crimes, but the psyche of the unit does not stand up, and he's going crazy.

The prototype of ray Unit was Charles Schmid, popular and rich 22-year-old young man who lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1964. Schmid was also short in stature and wore the boots with a sole in order to appear taller. And he put on face makeup in order to cover birthmarks.

Charles Schmid

May 31, 1964, Schmid a friend named Mary and her French friend John Saunders introduced him to 16-year-old Eileen Rowe. After some time, Schmid raped row, and then beat her to death and dumped the body from a high cliff. Then French and Saunders helped him bury the body.

A year later, the body row, still hasn't been found and no one knew where to look, however, Schmid confided in her new friend Gretchen Fritz, that he killed Rowe. In August 1965, Schmid was going to break up with Gretchen, but when he tried to do that, she said that I would go to the police and tell about the murder. Schmid strangled Gretchen Fritz, and then killed and her 13-year-old sister Wendy. Bodies are then buried in the desert. Once Schmid showed a burial place to a friend who went to the police. Schmid was sentenced to life imprisonment and three times tried to flee. 20 March 1970 Schmid was killed in prison.

"The town that dreaded sundown"

"The town that dreaded sundown" is a film of category "B", which takes place in the small town of Arkansas. The story tells of how a man dressed in a white hood, is killing random people for four months.

The film was based on the murders that took place in 1946 in Texarkana for 10 weeks. People using pistol caliber 0,32, shot 8 people. Only three of them managed to survive. Two of the survivors said that the "phantom" was wearing a mask from white fabric with holes for the eyes. All these murders are still unsolved.