2006-07-03 08:09:30 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Fahrenheit 9-11.
This evil man gets elected president and lies about WMDs to drag his nation into way which eventually destroys that country.
2006-07-13 14:25:25 · answer #1 · answered by mikeledo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is based on a true story, look online and it will tell you, I think the real girl's name was Annelise Michael and the incident happened in the 70s. Coincidentally, The Exorcist was based on true events that happened around Washington D.C. of a little boy they dubbed Robby. There's a really good book called Possessed which chronicles the story in journalist style. And An American Haunting was based on a true story too, about a rentless spirit in the 19th century who terrorized a family and was the supposed first case reported of a spirit murdering someone. Some real good horror movies are based on true stories.
2006-07-03 08:19:27 · answer #2 · answered by Opinion Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ammytieville horror comes to mind.I think book says, Based on true events.
Family moves into an old house and it is haunted. Owners go crazy and or die cause of it.
Moby Dick. ok, thats an iffy, but the Sailing and Whaleing parts are very accurate and based on true as well as the way a Whaler functioned in that time.
Jack the Ripper, British person goes nutzoid in the nightlife.
Dracula ,basically same story, but is Transylvanian goes nutz at nightfall.Vlad the Impaler actually did put people on pikes or posts , that was a pretty freaky guy.
Boston Strangler, That one was daytime.
2006-07-03 08:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hills have Eyes - I saw the remake recently - really not nice!
Based in America about a family on a road trip, their truck goes off the road and the axle snaps. Two of the men go looking ofr help leaving 3 women, 1 son, 1 baby and 2 dogs at the trailer in the middle of no where.
The car has broken down in the middle of the hills where 20 years before nuclear testing on mines etc had taken place thus affecting pregnant women and their soon to be born babies, producing deformaties throughout the births. The children had grown up in hills, hillbillie style.
These people then terrorise the family that have broken down, killing a few of them, attacking the daughters and abducting the baby......
Watch it - but be warned - its not nice! Apparently the orginial is more tame than the remake!
2006-07-12 22:48:32 · answer #4 · answered by donnaburg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ammtieville Horror. Based on a true story. They move into a haunted house and after months of strange and scary things were forced from their home leaving everything except the clothes they were wearing behind. When the house was later sold, the new owners never had a problem.
2006-07-12 03:34:24 · answer #5 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several. Just to name a few:
The Amitiville Horror (although proven and admitted to be all a hoax)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - loosely based on Ed Gein
Hillside Cannibals and the Hills Have Eyes - loosely based on the Sauney Bean Clan
Ravenous - loosely based on the first documented case of cannibalism
Death Tunnel - based on a haunted hospital
Boo! - also based on a haunted hospital
There's a whole series of self-titled serial killer films
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas
Vlad - based on Vlad the Impaler (Dracula, the actual person)
That's just a few of the many, many true stories
2006-07-03 17:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Entity, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (doubtful), Amityville Horror (still some debate), From Hell (the story of Jack the Ripper, artistic license used liberally), The Haunted (also questionable)... I can't think of any others right now. And I've listed too many to outline them all.
2006-07-03 10:48:09 · answer #7 · answered by LoonieGirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million, but like they said, "based" is a word used very loosely in the film industry. For example I recently watched "wolf creek" and it is supposed to be based "on actual events", only to find out that the last 30 or40 minutes of the movie, are completely made up. It tells you that the survivor, never actually saw or knew what happened to his companions, and they never caught the guy that supposedly did it! Very dissappointing. Also, the ever famous "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", which according to the research that I've done, is also highly innaccurate.
2006-07-03 11:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by kevin m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Amityville Horror is a good subject to read about. However, it was NOT based on a true story---it was marketed as a true story originally, however.
For more details see the site below or read Stephen Kaplan's "The Amityville Conspiracy" (ISBN 0963749803) & "The Night the DeFeos Died: Reinvestigating the Amityville Murders" by Ric Osuna (ISBN 1401046460)
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp
2006-07-03 10:29:23 · answer #9 · answered by Selkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitchcock's movie Psycho was partly based on the murderer and psychopath Ed Gein. Other movies have taken some truth from this disturbed man, such as the Texas Chainsaw Massecre.(Which is supposedly true, but I live in Texas ans have heard no such truth to the storie.)
No movie's events are completely true, atleast something is fictionalized. Hollywood has a tendency to exaggerate details.
2006-07-03 08:20:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out Amityville Horror, among others; but be aware that the movies usually are only BASED on true stories and don't actually tell the true stories.
2006-07-03 08:18:07 · answer #11 · answered by Susan S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋