True Blood: 5 cruel female murderers about whom a movie was made

Do you like to tickle your nerves with tense films? Movies from our selection are doubly creepy to watch, because the scripts of these thrillers are based on real stories of murders committed by women.

"The Girl Next Door" and "American Crime"

The films are based on the story of housewife Gertrude Baniszewski.

"The worst crime against a person in the history of Indiana," is how Gertrude Baniszewski's contemporaries called her act, cruel, senseless and disgusting. Banishevski tortured 16-year-old Sylvia Likens to death with harassment, beatings, torture, starvation and violence, whom a familiar couple left in her care. The parents of Sylvia and her younger sister traveled around the country in search of earnings, attaching their daughters to a housewife with many children, who turned out to be an unbalanced sadist. Having started insulting the eldest of the sisters, she very quickly moved on to physical punishments. Later, the woman forbade the girl to go to school and leave the house altogether. The bullying, to which Banishevsky also connected her own children, took on a real sadistic character: Gertrude locked her ward in the basement, where the girl was kept without clothes and food, raped, poured boiling water, insults were burned on her body, beaten, eventually ruining her to death — the girl died in October 1965. Gertrude and her older children were sentenced to prison, and the younger ones were placed in foster care.

"Arsenic and old lace"

The film is based on the story of the owner of the nursing home Amy Duggan Archer-Gilligan.

The 1944 black comedy is not inspired by the funny events that unfolded in Connecticut at the beginning of the century. From 1907 to 1916, 60 guests died in the Archer nursing home, which was maintained by a wealthy widow. Some of the elderly residents of the house, despite the years, were perfectly healthy, but some time after moving into the Archer-Gilligan house, they quickly "faded away". In the end, the concerned relatives of the deceased old people sounded the alarm, and the prosecutor's office became interested in the nursing home. After a year of investigation, the police reported that the hostess of the house poisoned her guests by forging their wills in her favor. The court sentenced Archer-Gilligan to a forced stay in a psychiatric clinic, where she eventually lived until her death.

"The Devil's Sister"

The film is based on the story of the Gonzalez sisters brothel mistresses.

Delphine and Maria de Jesus Gonzalez are stars in their native Mexico. But the sisters were not famous for their talents or knowledge: the girls who killed 110 people are officially recognized as the most brutal serial killers in Mexico. From 1950 to 1964, the sisters kept a brothel, to which they lured "employees" by deception — under the guise of looking for waitresses in a cafe. The girls were kept in captivity, forced to serve customers almost without a break for sleep and food, and Gonzalez's exhausted victims were simply finished off. The sisters also dealt with babies, which their captives periodically gave birth to, and with some clients with money. The sisters' bloody business was revealed when one of the abducted girls managed to escape.

"Bloody Lady Bathory"

The film is based on the story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory

In fact, dozens of books have been written and many films have been made about the Hungarian countess who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the latest for today is a thriller starring Svetlana Khodchenkova. The exact number of tortured victims of the Countess is unknown, but in the legends we are talking about hundreds of murdered girls, in whose blood Bathory bathed for "rejuvenation". Many imagine the Countess as an independent, domineering mistress of her gloomy possessions, but this is not so: Bathory was married and raised six children. However, the word "education" does not fit here: nannies were engaged in children, and the Countess herself had other hobbies — sophisticated torture of young maids. The Countess and her four servants were arrested in 1610, when rumors spread throughout the kingdom about the martyrs who died within the walls of the countess's castle. The servants of the countess-murderer were executed, and she herself was imprisoned for life in the fortress, where Bathory lived for three years and died at the age of 54.

"Monster"

The film is based on the story of prostitute Eileen Wuornos.

One of the most famous female murderers in the early 90s became famous in the USA, and after the release of the film starring Charlize Theron — all over the world. In two years, from 1989 to 1990, Eileen Wuornos shot seven men, but there were many sympathizers among the Americans who followed the trial. The fate of the woman was really difficult. She was born to a 17-year-old girl, she has never seen her father: convicted of pedophilia, he hanged himself in prison. At the age of 4, Eileen was abandoned by her mother and sent the girl to be raised by her grandparents, from whom the girl ran away at the age of 15. Eileen started earning her bread by prostitution. At the age of 22, Eileen attempted suicide, and the next year she went to prison for 4 years for robbery. After being released, Eileen continued to sell herself, but now she saw in her clients not only a source of income, but also the cause of all her troubles. Eileen started killing. Her victims were seven men aged 40 to 65 years. The trial in the Wuornos case dragged on for many years, and the death sentence was carried out only in 2002.

Theron gained 15 kilograms for the role of Eileen Wuornos, and during filming she shaved her eyebrows and wore a denture. The efforts paid off with an Oscar.