true stories
‘The Girl Next Door’ (2007) is Terrifying and Intense [Review]
The Girl Next Door (2007) is based on the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name. The film takes inspiration from a series of terrifying real-life events. Gregory Wilson directed this jarring picture. Th...
Monsters and Medicine: The True Story of Leonid Rogozov Who Preformed Surgery on Himself
“On the morning of April 29, 1961 I did not feel well. The symptoms noted were weakness, general malaise and, later, nasuea. Within a few hours, pain arose in the upper portion of the abdomen, w...
Insane, Horrific True Stories That Somehow Aren’t Movies, Yet
There’s no one phrase that makes people more willing to check out a horror film than the “based on a true story.” At the same time, there are few phrases that cause more arguments...
Retrospective – Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
Henry is a testament to how powerful a film can be even without much of anything to work with at all. Based loosely on the story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, it was made for only $100,000 and its...
“What happened is true” Revisiting The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
In some ways, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is the first modern horror movie. In some even deeper ways, it may be possible to consider it as the first modern movie, period. The Texas Chain Saw Mas...
Real Scary Stories- Movies Based On True Events (part two)
As a follow on from our first post on scary true stories turned into movies, we look at more of those horror films we know and love which are based on true events. Let us know your thoughts in the com...
Real Life Villains- Serial Killers (part two)
There are many real life murderers who are in fact quite a bit more over-the-top than even the cheesiest B-movie bad guys. Read more below following on from our first post of some of th...
Real Scary Stories- Movies Based On True Events (part one)
One trick that’s often used in horror movies is claiming that they’re based on real events that have happened. Here we list some of the real scary stories that have been turned into...