Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Sure, films such as The Amityville Horror ... and possessed dolls to true-life exorcisms, check out these 10 horror movies based on real-life events.

One of the scariest and best shark movies in more recent memory is ... is what helped convince audiences to buy into its “based on a true story” claims and made it one of the highest-grossing ...

From 'The Conjuring' to Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds,' a myriad of frightening films have brought to life harrowing true tales ... the stories are actually based on real-life events.

Movies based on true stories are much more heart-touching than the fictional ones. The fact that these events have taken place in real life gives the viewers goosebumps and a sense that reality can be ...

Horror movies based on true stories have a special place in shaping ... fashioning masks out of human faces. The Amityville Horror adapts the eponymous book by Jay Anson, chronicling the ...

Even Jennifer's Body is inspired by a true ... based on the case files of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are associated with another prominent story—the ...

One of the first horror movies to go hard promoting itself as a ‘true story’, Stuart Rosenberg ... According to the book it’s based on, in 1975, a family moved into a house in Long Island ...

There’s a reason there have been so many incredible movies based on true stories: It’s because the truth is more fascinating than fiction a lot of the time. What also helps our appreciation is ...