15 terrifying horror films you (probably) didn't know were based on true stories

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15 terrifying horror films you (probably) didn't know were based on true stories
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If you think Psycho, The Conjuring, and Scream are terrifying, imagine living through the true stories that inspired them

The only thing scarier than the horror movies Hollywood makes are the real-life stories that inspire them. For decades, horror films have thrived by using the all-too-common “based on a true story” label, or the less reliable “inspired by true events,” to create a fiction believable enough to sell tickets and make audiences white-knuckle their theater seat armrests.

Thankfully, whatever the Hermanns think they saw, it stayed around long enough to inspire one of the best horror films of the ’80s. 8. A Nightmare On Elm Street A Nightmare On Elm Street director Wes Craven told Vulture in an oral history that the idea of teens being stalked in their sleep by Freddy Krueger came after the late filmmaker read an article in the Los Angeles Times about a Cambodian family whose young son struggled with vivid night terrors.

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