Top 9 Films Based on Supernatural True Events
Steve Barton
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
In 1975, parapsychologist John Keel wrote The Mothman Prophecies about his investigations into apparent sightings of large, winged creatures around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from 1966-67. This book was the inspiration for the 2002 film starring Richard Gere about these same mysterious creatures. The movie illustrates the legend of the mothman and John Klein’s (Gere) obsession with finding him. The movie and book both center their stories around the collapse of the Silver Bridge, and the movie and book both claim that there was never any scientific explanation as to why this bridge collapsed (trying to shuffle off the blame on the mothman, I’m sure!), but in actuality, failure of an eye bar in a suspension chain was the cause. Although that’s not nearly as scary (or as marketable) as saying the mothman did it. And who knows? Maybe he weakened the faulty eye bar!
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
We touched on a lot of hauntings, an alien abduction, mothmen and even a dream master…why not a real life vampire. Shadow of the Vampire is a fun, supernatural look at the filming of one of the original horror movies, Nosferatu. With John Malkovich playing Nosferatu director F.W. Murnau and Willem Dafoe playing the incredibly quirky actor Max Schreck, Shadow of the Vampire asks the question, ‘What if the man who played the original cinematic vampire was actually a vampire himself?’ Of course this is a satirical ‘based-on-true events’ rendering, but it is a fun question to ask. Schreck was an incredibly odd individual and it’s amusing to picture him as an actual vampire. That would explain a lot about this unique method actor.
The Quiet Ones Synopsis
From the producer who brought you The Woman In Black and Let Me In comes the unnerving tale of The Quiet Ones. Tucked away in an estate outside of London, Professor Coupland along with a team of university students conduct an “experiment” on Jane Harper, a young girl who harbors unspeakable secrets. What dark forces they uncover are more terrifying than any of them expected. Inspired by true events, the film stars Jared Harris (“Mad Men” and Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Olivia Cooke (“Bates Motel”), and is directed by John Pogue from a screenplay by Craig Rosenberg and Oren Moverman and John Pogue, and based on a screenplay by Tom de Ville.
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