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Gruesome horror movies and the real crimes that inspired them?
I’ve got a lot of people who were inspired by movies to kill, and now I need to know the crimes that inspired the movies.
I’d really like to know in particular where the idea for SAW came from and the more gruesome movies. However, if you know of one (ie. The Amityville Horror etc) that was not as gruesome but has a real backstory, please share.
So far I’ve got Natural Born Killers, The Silence of the Lambs and Dracula.
I think the one that comes to my mind first is ‘In Cold Blood’. There have been a couple of movies based on the actual events, as well as the book written by Truman Capote.
There has also been a movie, which won an Oscar in 2006, about Capote doing the research for writing the book .
“Plot summary for In Cold Blood (1967)
Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer’s home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been. Written by filmfactsman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/
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