RSS Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 The phrase "based on a true story" has been attached to numerous films — horror and otherwise. When searching for the phrase in the Internet Movie Database, everything from Shadow of the Vampire to From Hell, The Philadelphia Experiment to Open Water - and countless TV movies - surface. Needless to say, the phrase is not often taken too seriously. Horror films which are based on actual events swing between two points: those which are influenced by a theme (i.e. Psycho) and those which go to graphical extremes (i.e. Wolf Creek). I will be examining each of these cases in the following essay. The above is from: http://www.earth-2.net/columns/reddick/reel-dread-26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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