Top 9 Films Based on Supernatural True Events
Steve Barton
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Yes, you read that right, A Nightmare on Elm Street was based on true events. You may be shaking your head thinking, “You’ve finally gone off the deep end, Gash. There’s no way that could be true.” But indeed it is. Apparently, Craven was following a series of article in the LA Times in the ’70s that told of a group of Khmer refugees who were fleeing Cambodia for America. After experiencing some horrific nightmares, they refused to sleep, but when they finally nodded off, they died. Here’s the story as Wes Craven details it. “It was a series of articles in the LA Times, three small articles about men from Southeast Asia who were from immigrant families and had died in the middle of nightmares—and the paper never correlated them, never said, ‘Hey, we’ve had another story like this.'”
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Certainly more of an extraterrestrial encounter than a ghostly experience, but supernatural is supernatural, right? Fire in the Sky is the cinematic depiction of Travis Walton’s book, The Walton Experience, wherein he details his terrors in what has become one of the most infamous cases of alien abduction in American history. As with any allegedly true mysterious encounter with otherworldly beings, Walton certainly had his detractors, most notably Mike Rogers, whom he fought with on “Larry King Live” during promotion for Fire in the Sky, but held firm to his story. Although the movie does take huge liberties with Walton’s story, as movies are apt to do (with even the screenplay writer apologizing at one point for making changes the studio requested), it is a chilling tale of what might be out there beyond the stars.
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