Top 9 Films Based on Supernatural True Events
Steve Barton
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The Conjuring (2013)
Five years before they investigated the Amityville house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Ed and Lorraine Warren visited the Perron family home in Harrisville, Rhode Island. According to notes on this particular haunting, the offending entity was a witch named Bathsheba Sherman, who lived on the property in the 19th Century. This witch cursed the land the Perron family home was built on with a hex that would make anyone who moved onto the property die. This was the inspiration for James Wan’s 2013 hit film The Conjuring, and if the real life events were anything like what happened in that movie, particularly the exorcism scene at the finale, then those Perrons certainly had a real mess on their hands.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
A brilliant marketing campaign that focused on the fantastic physical work of Jennifer Carpenter (shortly before she became Officer/Detective Debra Morgan on “Dexter”) made The Exorcism of Emily Rose an eagerly anticipated movie and monster at the box office. In a weird pairing of horror/courtroom drama, The Exorcism of Emily Rose is loosely based on the story of Anneliese Michel, a German woman who underwent an exorcism in 1976 and subsequently died the same year when refusing medical and psychiatric treatment. The story of Michel is a sad one as she weighed just 68 pounds at the time of her death due to malnutrition and dehydration, with the strain of the exorcism being blamed for contributing to her death. She was also suffering from pneumonia and had two broken knees due to continuous genuflections and could not move without assistance. The film does a great job of reenacting the court proceedings the priest who performed the exorcism had to face when being held responsible for Michel’s death.
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