Horror films make people shudder with fear, empathize for the main characters, believe and hope that everything that happens is just a fiction of talented writers, actors and directors. However, every fiction must be based on something. "Horror", unfortunately, is no exception, and most of them are either wholly based on real events, or partially.
Atrocities in life
Of course, most directors try to make their films intriguing, frightening and bloody, but few people realize that behind what is happening on the screen lies the unfortunate fate of people who once lived. For example, the popular at the beginning of the 21st century, The Girl in Front, tells the story of Sylvia Mary Likens, who was brutally murdered in 1965 in the American state of Indianapolis by a family in whose care her parents left her. The horror is that all the members of the Banishevski family mocked her. As a result, the girl died of malnutrition and shock.
It was these events that became the motive for the creation of the tape "Girl opposite".
The plot of the film, directed by the famous Clint Eastwood "Substitution", is also taken from life. In 1928, in Los Angeles, there really was a maniac who kidnapped and killed boys. It was this story that prompted an investigation into corruption in the US Police Department.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is completely fictional, but the fact that the maniac cut out the faces of his victims is taken from real life. Such terrible actions were committed by Ed Gein, who lived in the United States in the 20th century.
Finally, we must not forget the history closely connected with Russia. In 2004, the horror film Evilenko was released on the big screens, which, although partially, but tells the viewer about the events that took place during the collapse of the USSR. Perhaps this story is about the most atrocious maniac of the Soviet period - Chikatilo, who committed only 53 proven brutal murders from 1978 to 1990.
Life tragedies on the screen
Directors, in addition to films about murderers and maniacs, often make horror films based on tragic events that happened to people by accident. So the film "Living" is dedicated to the plane crash in the Andes, which happened in 1972. Every day 27 surviving passengers of the plane died one after another, some from frostbite, some from hunger, some from avalanches.
As a result, only a few people managed to survive in these terrible conditions of the Andes.
The film "Open Sea" is also filled with tragedy, the prototypes of which were Thomas Lonergan and Eileen Haynes Lonergan - spouses from the United States. On January 25, 1998, a married couple, while on a round-the-world trip, left the coast of Australia on a pleasure boat to the Great Barrier Reef for diving, and for unknown reasons were simply forgotten by the guides on the high seas. After a few days of searching, rescuers found their wetsuits, but to this day they are still missing.
