If there is something that really terrifies everyone in a scary movie, it is the phrase “based on real events” and it is an absolute guarantee that at least it will generate great hype in some. And it is that this type of movies always keep us with the fly behind the ear telling us “Wait, has this really happened?

Horror is already meant to be scary, so stating that it really happened only adds to the scare factor of a movie and the “based on” aspect only creates uncertainty in what we see.

It is also obvious that will generate a great expectationas curious viewers want to know the story behind the film, as well as its veracity.

After all, in our history as human beings we have seen everything: serial killers, paranormal events, presenting possessions… so it is a perfect sector for all those writers and directors who want to get informed, use that story and give it a little terrifying touch and thus make even the most staunch skeptic question reality.

That is why we leave you with 7 very mythical scary movies that you can find on Prime Video, HBO Max, Netflix or Filmin, which are based on real events. You will find everything and for all tastes, but all They hide a real story behind.

7 scary movies that are based on real events, and that makes them more terrifying:

The Exorcist (1973)

Often considered the creepiest horror film in history, the exorcist is based on a book which in turn tells the story of a named boy who was possessed by demons in 1949. The exorcism was so horrifying that books have been written about the people who witnessed it.

Real facts: the book is based on the exorcism of Roland Doe, the pseudonym of a young man who, in the late 1940s, was visited by several priests who were trying to cure him of alleged demonic possession.

Roland was reportedly speaking in a hoarse voice and was blamed for furniture and objects mysteriously moving or flying around the room. During two separate exorcisms, the boy also became violent, breaking a priest’s nose and freeing himself from one of the restraints on his arm to stab him with a sharp object.

we leave you the link to HBO Max so that you can be the one who gets the creeps. He has aged very well despite the fact that he may no longer produce the same fear as before.

The Strangers (2008)

The Strangers follows a young couple who fall victim to a trio of deranged masked assailants, who terrorize them at their vacation home.

The movie is downright terrifying because there is no apparent motive for the crimes. Without spoiling any of this, during the film’s tense final scenes, one of the victims asks why them. The answer is simple: “because you were at home”.

It has a sequel, Strangers: Prey at Night, released in 2018, which brings back the scarecrow, the doll and the pin-up girl who will embark on a new assault for fun.

Real facts: this happened to Bryan Bertino, its director, when he was a child: someone knocked on his door asking for someone who did not live there. Later, he learned that there was a series of robberies in his neighborhood around the same time.

Burglars targeted houses where no one answered the door. He also said that the film was inspired by the Manson Family murders.

Do you have this film available? on netflix.

Veronica (2017)

Be careful because we are going with a Spanish woman. We are going to meet Verónica, a teenager who is not living the best moment of her life after the recent death of her father and the absence of her mother.

Is decides one day to play Ouija board with her friends taking advantage of a total solar eclipse in which all classmates and teachers are on the roof of the school. Alone this she will try to contact her father. However, a few days later Veronica will begin to feel strange and she begins to see forms that are not of this world.

Following a nun’s advice that a sinister spirit is close to her, Veronica looks for a way to break contact with the ghost and save everyone.

Real facts: based on the so-called Vallecas case of 1991. According to the supposedly true story, Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro conducted a spiritism session at her school one day using a Ouija board, and in the middle of the ritual, a nun entered and broke the board.

After this event, Estefanía experienced months of seizures and hallucinations of strange figures that ended with her mysterious death.

we leave you the link to netflix.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

We are facing a classic of horror movies about a family of cannibals who take advantage of young tourists, with the well-known Leatherface as the central figure.

Tom Hooper, the director of this film, took the disturbing actions of a murderer and turned them into something even more disturbing, adding cannibalism and a host of very graphic murders to the already horrifying mix.

Real facts: It is based on the famous American serial killer Ed Gein, a murderer and grave robber who exhumed the corpses of the women in the area, cut their skin and put it on. He had nine human skin masks in his possession at the time of his arrest.

It should be noted that his crimes not only inspired Hooper. His story also served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” which we discuss below.

It’s available, the 1974 version, though there are very current remakes and continuations, in Filmin.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Another horror movie and another character inspired by Ed Gein. This time, we focus on the creepy Buffalo Bill, aka Jame Gumb, the serial killer wanted by Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) in “The Silence of the Lambs”, from 1991, often considered, and not for less, as one of the best films of all time.

Real facts: in both the film and the 1988 novel on which it was based, Bill’s targets were only overweight women, as his goal was manufacture a leather “woman’s suit” to wear it.

However, Bill was also based on numerous other famous killers, such as Jerry Brudos or Ted Bundy.

You have this creepy piece of art in prime video.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

We start from the basis of a 1977 horror film written, directed and edited by Wes Craven. In 2006 this remake was released and in 2007 a sequel.

In this remake, also produced by Craven, we are going to enter the Carter family, an idyllic American family that is traveling. However, their journey is diverted to an area closed to the public. A area originally used by the United States Government for nuclear testing and that it must be empty, or so they believed.

What at first seemed like a car breakdown, soon they will realize that it is a trap that this area is inhabited by beings willing to prepare a real massacre.

Real facts: according to folklore, Bean was the leader of a clan (sect) of 48 people in 16th-century Scotland that kidnapped, killed, and ate more than 1,000 people.

During the search for the mysterious murderers, the inhabitants of the nearby areas found them and lynched numerous innocents who lived under a cult, and capturing Bean, they brutally executed him and his followers.

we leave you the link to Disney+.

The Warren File: The Enfield Affair (2016)

In 2013, the cinema public formally met Ed and Lorraine Warren, real investigators of the paranormal played in the series “The Conjuring” by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Is It is the second film in a franchise of five.

In this we moved until 1977, to Enfield (London). Paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren will travel to this town to help the Hodgson family. Their daughter is possessed and they believe their four children are haunted by supernatural events.

Peggy Hodgson, the mother will ask for help when an evil entity takes possession of the second oldest daughter, Janet.

Real facts: is based on the Enfield Poltergeist case, which haunted a single mother named Peggy Hodgson and her four children in her north London home.

The youngest daughter, Janet, played in the film by Madison Wolfe, was allegedly possessed by the poltergeist, who spoke through her and told investigators that she was the ghost of Bill Wilkens, who died in the house.

It should be noted that the Warrens they weren’t as involved in the case as “The Conjuring 2” would have you believe. In fact, the Warrens showed up at the house unannounced and were initially not allowed to enter. Let us remember that they are considered the great swindlers of the paranormal world, extracting large amounts of money from desperate people.

can you see her on HBO Max.