4 movies inspired by real life incidents part 2

The Haunting in Connecticut is about a family that moved into a former funeral home, which turns out to be haunted:-

The Haunting in Connecticut" is based on the plight of the Snedeker family (changed to Campbell in the movie).

The Snedekers moved into a new home in the '80s to be closer to the University of Connecticut's hospital, since their son Phillip was undergoing treatment for cancer. The family soon realized that the house they had moved into used to be a funeral home.

According to mother Carmen, Phillip quickly became withdrawn and angry, and started seeing a ghostly man who would tell him to lash out. She eventually sent him away, though it's unclear whether he went to stay with family, or whether she had him committed (there are reports of both). Either way, after Phillip left things allegedly got a lot worse for the rest of the family.

They eventually called in a priest to perform an exorcism (as well as the Warrens, who make another appearance).                                                          

"Veronica" is about a Spanish teenager who used a Ouija board to contact a dead loved one with disastrous consequences:-

The film is based on a real Spanish teenager whose death was never solved.

In 1992, a student named Estefania Gutierrez performed a "makeshift séance" at her high school. A few months later, she died in the hospital — after experiencing seizures and claiming to see shadowy figures.

The story gets even stranger: a year after Gutierrez died, her parents called the police because they were experiencing paranormal activity, similar to the shadowy figures their daughter had reported. The police was skeptical, until they too heard disembodied noises. The official report called the home "a situation of mystery and rarity."                             

 "The Strangers" is a terrifying look into the mindset of monsters who commit crimes just because they can:- 

 The poster for "The Strangers" claims that the film was "inspired by true events," though it's more of an amalgam of a few terrifying true tales.

Director Bryan Bertino said he drew his main inspiration from an experience from his childhood. "As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it. At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn't live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses."

Bertino has also cited the Manson murders and the unsolved murders of the Sharp family, known as the Keddie Cabin Murders                                    

"A Nightmare On Elm Street" is best known for bringing Freddy Krueger, a serial killer who murders people in their dreams, into the mainstream:-

The idea for this iconic franchise came from a Los Angeles Times article that Wes Craven, the film's writer and director, read, about a boy that was too terrified to sleep after surviving the Killing Fields in Cambodia.

Here's what Craven said to Vulture about his inspiration: "He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time. When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of 'Nightmare on Elm Street.'"