In The TellTale Heart, the narrator fixates on the idea that an old man is looking at him with the Evil Eye and transmitting a curse on him. In many of Poes short stories, such as The TellTale Heart, the narrators are madmen and murderers who fail to disguise their lack of rationality with a discussion. The Murders In The Rue Morgue Quiz' title='The Murders In The Rue Morgue Quiz' />Quiz for Edgar Allan Poes short story The Black Cat. Adaptations of Poes The Murders in the Rue MorgueWhile most horror movies are complete works of fiction, the genre occasionally offers up stories that are based on terrifying and jaw dropping real life events, like the nine collected here. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 1. Premise A supernatural killer stalks his prey while they dream during deep sleep. Real Life Inspiration Wes Craven based A Nightmare on Elm Street on a series of newspaper articles from the Los Angeles Times about a strange phenomenon where young Asian refugees would mysteriously die in their sleep. It was reported that many would refuse to sleep, citing terrifying nightmares that they feared would lead to death. According to Craven, the paper never correlated the three articles, never said, Hey, weve had another story like this The third one was the son of a physician. He was about twenty one Ive subsequently found out this is a phenomenon in Laos, Cambodia. Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines You must sleep. He said, No, you dont understand Ive had nightmares beforethis is different. He was given sleeping pills and told to take them and supposedly did, but he stayed up. I forget what the total days he stayed up was, but it was a phenomenal amountsomething like six, seven days. Finally, he was watching television with the family, fell asleep on the couch, and everybody said, Thank god. They literally carried him upstairs to bed he was completely exhausted. Everybody went to bed, thinking it was all over. In the middle of the night, they heard screams and crashing. A summary of The Murders in the Rue Morgue 1841 in Edgar Allan Poes Poes Short Stories. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of. Edgar Allan Poe. Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and a searchable collection of works. They ran into the room, and by the time they got to him he was dead. They had an autopsy performed, and there was no heart attack he just had died for unexplained reasons. They found in his closet a Mr. Coffee maker, full of hot coffee that he had used to keep awake, and they also found all his sleeping pills that they thought he had taken he had spit them back out and hidden them. It struck me as such an incredibly dramatic story that I was intrigued by it for a year, at least, before I finally thought I should write something about this kind of situation. CHILDS PLAY 1. 98. Premise A serial killers soul possesses a toy doll and wreaks havoc. Real Life Inspiration In 1. Key West painter and author Robert Eugene Otto claimed that one of his familys servants placed a voodoo curse on his childhood toy, Robert the Doll. Supposedly, the doll would mysteriously move from room to room, knock furniture over, and conduct conversations with Otto. Robert the Doll was left in the attic until Ottos death in 1. Florida home. The new family also claimed mysterious activities would happen in the house connected to the doll. Today, Robert the Doll is on display at the Custom House and Old Post Office in Key West, Florida. THE AMITYVILLE HORROR 1. Premise A young family moves into a house where a murder was committed, and experiences strange and terrifying occurrences. Real Life Inspiration Based on the book of the same name, The Amityville Horror follows the paranormal events that terrorized the Lutz family. In 1. 97. 5, the family moved into 1. Ocean Avenue where, unbeknownst to them, Ronald De. Feo, Jr. had brutally murdered his family 1. While in their new home, the family claimed that they saw green slime on the walls and red eyed pigs staring into their kitchen and living room. After less than a month, the Lutz family moved out of the small town of Amityville, New York. PSYCHO 1. 96. 0Premise A secretary goes on the run after she steals 4. Real Life Inspiration Psychos Norman Bates is loosely based on convicted murderer and grave robber Ed Gein, who, during the late 1. Wisconsin. He also fashioned human skin into tiny keepsakes and knickknacks, such as face masks, belts, and chair coverings. Psychos novelist Robert Bloch based Bates on Gein, but changed the character from a grave robber and murderer into a serial killer who dressed like his mother. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs also based their serial killersLeatherface and Buffalo Bill, respectivelyon Gein. THE EXORCIST 1. 97. Premise Two Catholic priests perform an exorcism on a young girl who is possessed by the devil. Real Life Inspiration The Exorcists author and screenwriter William Peter Blatty based the novel and film on a Washington Post article from 1. Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devils Grip. The article followed Jesuit priests William S. Bowdern, Edward Hughes, Raymond J. Bishop, and Walter H. Halloran participating in the rite of exorcism on a boy with the pseudonym Roland Doe in Maryland. According to the priests, they allegedly experienced the boy speaking in tongues, the bed shaking and hovering, and objects flying around during the ordeal. The exorcism was one of three official Catholic Church sanctioned exorcisms in the United States at the time. Maybe one day theyll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism, William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, told Time Out. His family werent even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldnt help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. Thats pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page. But youre not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless theres something there. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR 2. Premise An aunt tortures and abuses her niece, and a neighborhood boy fails to alert the authorities. Real Life Inspiration Based on Jack Ketchums novel of the same name, The Girl Next Door is based on the murder of Sylvia Likens, a 1. Indiana in 1. 96. Sylvia and her sister Jenny were left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a family friend, when their parents left town as traveling carnival workers. Baniszewski, along with her children and a few neighborhood kids, locked Sylvia in the basement, where they tortured and abused her until she died of a brain hemorrhage and malnutrition. THE CONJURING 2. Premise Two paranormal investigators help a family who move into a secluded home plagued by weird events. Real Life Inspiration The Conjuring is based on real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren and their experience with the Perrons, a family who moved into a Rhode Island farmhouse and experienced ghostly and terrifying occurrences in 1. When Insidious came out and was successful the story about the Warrens came to me and I was like, Oh, my gosh, this is really cool, director James Wan told. Entertainment Weekly in 2. Sony Vegas Pro 8 Full Free there. But I didnt just want to make another ghost story or another supernatural film. One thing I had never explored was the chance to tell a story thats based on real life characters, real life people. So those were the things that led me to The Conjuring. The Warrens also had a possessed Raggedy Ann doll that was the inspiration for the spin off film Annabelle. Allegedly, a demon spirit possessed the Raggedy Ann doll, which is currently on display and under lock and key at the Warrens Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut. OPEN WATER 2. 00. Premise Two scuba divers become stranded in shark infested waters after their tour group accidentally leaves them behind.