As the spooky season continues, check out these 10 Hollywood horror movies that are inspired by real-life events and stories. Read on.

While working in a metal shop in a North Carolina prison, Manchester escaped by hiding under an outgoing truck in 2004, four ...

Tom Cruise's WW2 movie Valkyrie was based on a real-life plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The film is headed to a new ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Ever finished a horror movie with a chill running down your spine just because the phrase “based ...

The chilling events in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (portrayed by Laura Linney, Campbell Scott, Tom Wilkinson and of course, Jennifer Carpenter in the titular role) are nearly as frightening as the real ...

Movies based on true stories usually come out decades after the fact, but there are other cases when a movie is ripped from the headlines and released while the story is still fresh in the memory.

A Spanish crime thriller based on actual events currently sits as the #1 film on Netflix globally and claims the #2 chart position in the U.S. today! More specifically, we are talking about A Widow’s ...

Nothing brings a chilling fear down someone’s spine like a horror movie teasing that its plot is based on real events. Weapons, released on August 8, 2025, is the latest Warner Bros. film to haunt ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s a technique most often used in the horror genre, but it’s been done in other genres as well.

These based on a true story movies are pretty accurate — aside from their fictionalized main characters. Does knowing that lead characters — and in some cases, the hero of the movie — were Hollywood ...

Ravi Teja’s latest film Mass Jathara, written by Bhanu Boggavarapu, has finally hit theatres today. Produced by Sitara Entertainments, the film stars Sreeleela as the female lead in her second ...