Don't worry: it's just a movie. That's typically what we tell ourselves when watching a particularly pant-browning horror film. It's all well and good doing that, except when the film we're watching is real. See, while many products of the silver screen are elaborate works of fiction, like Guardians of the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, and One Direction: This Is Us, some are based on actual events... things that really happened. And some of them are utterly chilling. What follows is a list of 25 movies that are based on real-life events, one or two of which might even make it on to our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror movies of all time. So read on and drink in the horror, safe in the knowledge that you'll never sleep quite as comfortably ever again. The truth really is stranger, sorry, scarier than fiction.  

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25. Audrey Rose (1977) 

The horror movie: Horror connoisseur Robert Wise directs a supernatural mindfuck. Anthony Hopkins is on ༺deliciously sinister form as Elliot Hooper, who believes that the daughter 𓆏of a young couple is his dead wife reincarnate. Yeah, that's just weird.

The true story: Things only get weirder when you look into the creation of Frank De Felitta's novel, on which this is based. Felitta's six-year-old son could play the piano perfectly, despite the fact that he'd never had a single lesson in his short life. The bizarre development led Felitt꧅a to contact an occultist and resulted in the author's belief in reincarnation.

happening around it.