Wes Craven’s meta slasher film became a sleeper hit at the 1996 Christmas box office and a ‘90s staple, as teenager Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her friends struggle to find the Ghostface killer before his knife finds them. In 2006, King told The Paris Review that Annie was a metaphor for the author’s drug addiction. The fanatical Wilkes and her violent ways stem from the inner demons that plagued her creator. When Paul’s car crashes during a snowstorm, Annie rescues him - and then proceeds to confine him to a room in her home while torturing him emotionally and physically until he writes a new novel to satisfy her psychotic desires. The negative backlash he received from fans was so strong, King used it to fuel his return to horror fiction with the tale of popular author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) struggling to escape a crazed fan, Annie Wilkes (the Oscar-winning Kathy Bates). The latter is based, in part, on King’s real-life experiences following the release of his fantasy novel, The Eyes of the Dragon. Thankfully, whatever the Hermanns think they say stayed around long enough to inspire one of the most chest-pounding experiences in movie history.ĭirector Rob Reiner is responsible for two of the greatest Stephen King adaptations: Stand By Me (based on King’s short story “The Body”) and the Oscar-winning Misery. While these researchers were able to record some evidence of strange events, the occurrences stopped shortly after the team arrived. Like the Freelings, the Hermanns also invited paranormal specialists into their suburban home to deal with what the supposed experts claimed to be a legit poltergeist. Their claims went viral and dominated local and national news cycles, to the point where Life Magazine did a piece on it. They allegedly saw bottle tops pop off on their own, along with those bottles seemingly moved by an invisible hand. In 1958, in the town of Seaford, the Hermann family claimed to be victims of paranormal activities that would be immortalized in one of the most popular films of the 1980s. While this movie takes place in California, the haunting that supposedly inspired its story originated 3000 miles away in New York state. In producer Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hooper - a PG-rated film that was so scary it helped create the PG-13 rating in the first place - the Freeling family discovers their suburban home is built on a haunted burial ground and is now plagued by its violent spirits. But leave it to Hollywood to not let something like the truth get in the way of telling their version of it. And especially no cloven hoofprints left behind in the snow… seeing as how there was no snow on the ground on the day the Lutz family reported their paranormal activity. Yup - no black ooze, ecotplasm, or foul odors. In the years since, their claims have been debunked. murdered six of his family members there, the family reported that they experienced nearly a month’s worth of strange sounds and even stranger sights that eventually sent them fleeing from their home.īut, the Lutz family took some serious creative license of their own in their report. Upon moving into an Amityville home one year after Ronald DeFeo Jr. Truly scary stuff.Īrguably the most famous horror film based on horrifying, allegedly real events, The Amityville Horror has spent more than four decades giving audiences a permanent case of night terrors with the story of a young couple and their house in Amityville, New York haunted by violent spirits.įour years prior to the film’s release, the real-life Lutz family claimed to have suffered a fate similar to that of their fictional counterparts. Ultimately, two priests - like in the film - performed the rite of exorcism some 20 to 30 times to save the boy from the demonic infestation. According to Allen, the young boy in the case plays with an Ouija board, much like Regan (Linda Blair) does in The Exorcist. Allen wrote about the true story in a 1993 book titled Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip." Decades later, author Thomas B. A student at Georgetown University at the time, Blatty became fascinated with a Washington Post article headlined "Priest Frees Mt. William Peter Blatty, who wrote both the Oscar-winning screenplay and the bestselling 1971 novel, was first inspired by the 1949 real-life exorcism of a 14-year-old boy. girl possessed by a demon is closer to truth than fiction. Quite possibly the most terrifying horror film ever made (and certainly one of the best), The Exorcist becomes even scarier when you consider its story about a young Washington, D.C.
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