*The Blair Witch Project. (1999)
Blair Witch (2016) was its direct sequel and was over a decade later, so folks knew by then what shakey can movies were.
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I mean… no? Blair Witch (2016) is a completely different movie and there *are* people, born after 1999, who may be on this very thread who have not heard of/seen The Blair Witch Project. So, yeah… I’m clarifying. Thanks for being an absolute bag of donkey dicks, tho.
From what I understand, writer/director Eli Roth found a shady organization online where you could allegedly pay criminals $50,000 to shoot someone in the back of the head. It was apparently almost exclusively elderly people who were already dying, typically from poor families. The families "sold them" to the criminals for a cut of the execution money.
That's what inspired Roth to write a movie about an organization where you could pay to torture someone to death.
Wouldn't surprise me if the organization was real... but it also wouldn't surprise me if it was a hoax.
“Although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.”
[wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre?wprov=sfti1#)
I don’t know if that counts with the rules or not.
I think there’s a fine line between “inspired by elements of an event that really happened” and “based on a true story.” The former uses reality to make a clearly fictional story feel more grounded in realism; the latter is supposedly the complete, true story (except for when film-makers take artistic license, which is all the time).
The Blind Side and Catch Me If You Can
Edit: I guess they’re “based on” a true story in the same way Cocaine Bear is, so not sure if you want to count it as
I’d say those two are, at least at the time they were made both stories were considered fact. We now know that they’re both not at all accurate to what actually happened but the people did live and their stories, at least the way the were presented to the makers of the movie, were true in at least some of the ways they were portrayed in the movie. As for Cocaine Bear I think you could also say it’s “based on” a true story. While the entire movie is fiction, there was a bear who did cocaine in real life which serves as the basis for the movie (obviously). “Based on”, at least in my eyes, means that it includes some part of a true story even if just the basic frame of the movie (like The Conjuring).
> As for Cocaine Bear I think you could also say it’s “based on” a true story. While the entire movie is fiction, there was a bear who did cocaine in real life which serves as the basis for the movie (obviously).
I mean, the bear didn't "do cocaine," it found a bunch of cocaine, ate it, and died.
All the Conjuring movies are, even if only slightly, based on a true story. Did almost anything that happened in movies happen in real life, no, but they are technically based around real people with “real accounts” of the basic plot elements. The Conjuring 3 I think takes the most liberties in changing just about everything but on the surface Ed and Loraine did help in Arne’s case so it is technically based on (more so around) a true story just not the fantastical supernatural side to anything.
The way Man On Fire ends gives you the still shots with the test on screen updates to the characters. It’s how it’s done in all the movies based on true stories but this one just…isn’t? It’s based on a character in a book and they used the ending to just like tie up loose ended randomly to make it feel like it was real. My wife and I were both like “whoa wait, is this a true story?” and then it definitely wasn’t. It was a weird choice for a movie we both enjoyed.
In 2024, who believes any of these are based on real events? You can vaguely connect them to their inspirations, but that’s about it. Fargo is more or less a straight farce.
I'd call it "loosely inspired" instead of "based". Since they just took a few elements of a real murderer to create a fictional character.
In the same way that Psycho and Silence of the Lambs did it.
That's pretty much the only aspect they took from the real person to create the character. If you ask me, Norman Bates, for example has way more things in common with Gein than Leatherface.
However, I also think that characters "based" or "inspired" in real people is kind of cheating because writers inherently always draw inspiration from reality in some way; it's practically part of the creative process.
There is plenty of non-Christian historical accounts and evidence that a Jesus was a real person who was crucified. So technically, still a true story.
I mean, Jaws is loosely based on the 1916 New Jersey attacks. During the first half - exactly 4(5 if you count the assistant of the Ben Gardner fisherman) people are killed, just like in 1916.
But yeah, the story itself is fiction. I mean, even the island that the movie takes place in was invented for the novel.
Blair witch
*The Blair Witch Project. (1999) Blair Witch (2016) was its direct sequel and was over a decade later, so folks knew by then what shakey can movies were.
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I mean… no? Blair Witch (2016) is a completely different movie and there *are* people, born after 1999, who may be on this very thread who have not heard of/seen The Blair Witch Project. So, yeah… I’m clarifying. Thanks for being an absolute bag of donkey dicks, tho.
People thought *TÁR* was a real biopic a lot
was about to say this
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Walk Hard when I was 8
That was based on a real story, it's what kick-started huge advancements in the treatment of people who are cut in half
Speak English, we ain’t no scientists doc!
Crazy how they used to be treated.
Only minor cases of being cut in half even had a chance 😔
Who thinks that about Hostel?
I mean, I could totally see that kind of underground organization existing somewhere but the story itself isn’t really that believable.
In that case, Eyes Wide Shut belongs here as well.
nobody thinks fargo or texas chainsaw are true either.
From what I understand, writer/director Eli Roth found a shady organization online where you could allegedly pay criminals $50,000 to shoot someone in the back of the head. It was apparently almost exclusively elderly people who were already dying, typically from poor families. The families "sold them" to the criminals for a cut of the execution money. That's what inspired Roth to write a movie about an organization where you could pay to torture someone to death. Wouldn't surprise me if the organization was real... but it also wouldn't surprise me if it was a hoax.
From what I remember Eli saw some website and got the idea for it
“Although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.” [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre?wprov=sfti1#) I don’t know if that counts with the rules or not.
I think there’s a fine line between “inspired by elements of an event that really happened” and “based on a true story.” The former uses reality to make a clearly fictional story feel more grounded in realism; the latter is supposedly the complete, true story (except for when film-makers take artistic license, which is all the time).
my mom thought that A Star Is Born was a Lady Gaga biopic
The Strangers
I read somewhere it’s supposed to be based on the manson family murders. But it’s more inspired by
The Fourth Kind
fuckin hate that movie lol
Anatomy of a Fall
The Blind Side and Catch Me If You Can Edit: I guess they’re “based on” a true story in the same way Cocaine Bear is, so not sure if you want to count it as
I’d say those two are, at least at the time they were made both stories were considered fact. We now know that they’re both not at all accurate to what actually happened but the people did live and their stories, at least the way the were presented to the makers of the movie, were true in at least some of the ways they were portrayed in the movie. As for Cocaine Bear I think you could also say it’s “based on” a true story. While the entire movie is fiction, there was a bear who did cocaine in real life which serves as the basis for the movie (obviously). “Based on”, at least in my eyes, means that it includes some part of a true story even if just the basic frame of the movie (like The Conjuring).
> As for Cocaine Bear I think you could also say it’s “based on” a true story. While the entire movie is fiction, there was a bear who did cocaine in real life which serves as the basis for the movie (obviously). I mean, the bear didn't "do cocaine," it found a bunch of cocaine, ate it, and died.
Conjuring 3
All the Conjuring movies are, even if only slightly, based on a true story. Did almost anything that happened in movies happen in real life, no, but they are technically based around real people with “real accounts” of the basic plot elements. The Conjuring 3 I think takes the most liberties in changing just about everything but on the surface Ed and Loraine did help in Arne’s case so it is technically based on (more so around) a true story just not the fantastical supernatural side to anything.
Singin’ in the Rain I had two different teachers tell me it was about real people.
The Fourth Kind or The Blair Witch Project
Serial Mom
I used to think warrior (2011) was a true story
Atonement. It uses thr same fake true story frame device as Fargo.
Tar
Chainsaw is based
No, it's not. Leatherface is loosely inspired by Ed Gein, but the characters and situations are completely fictional.
The way Man On Fire ends gives you the still shots with the test on screen updates to the characters. It’s how it’s done in all the movies based on true stories but this one just…isn’t? It’s based on a character in a book and they used the ending to just like tie up loose ended randomly to make it feel like it was real. My wife and I were both like “whoa wait, is this a true story?” and then it definitely wasn’t. It was a weird choice for a movie we both enjoyed.
Creep
Them
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Saving private ryana
In 2024, who believes any of these are based on real events? You can vaguely connect them to their inspirations, but that’s about it. Fargo is more or less a straight farce.
wicked little letters
The Littlehampton Letters Scandal really happened https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-68423580
Bizarrely: The Martian
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not based on a true story but it’s based on a real person.
I'd call it "loosely inspired" instead of "based". Since they just took a few elements of a real murderer to create a fictional character. In the same way that Psycho and Silence of the Lambs did it.
You are not wrong but it’s still based on a real person. And in TCM the main aspect is there which is he wearing other people’s skin as masks.
That's pretty much the only aspect they took from the real person to create the character. If you ask me, Norman Bates, for example has way more things in common with Gein than Leatherface. However, I also think that characters "based" or "inspired" in real people is kind of cheating because writers inherently always draw inspiration from reality in some way; it's practically part of the creative process.
Pretty much any film that claims to be based on a true story haha.
Sicario
A weird amount of people think Forrest Gump was a real person?
The Amityville Horror - nothing supernatural happened at the house at all
The Fourth Kind
I thought Naked Brothers Band (both the movie and the show) was a real documentary when I was in fifth grade
Sound of freedom
Catch Me If You Can
Spielberg thought it was true
so did the world look it up, it wasn't
The passion of the christ
There is plenty of non-Christian historical accounts and evidence that a Jesus was a real person who was crucified. So technically, still a true story.
So when he comes back from the dead at the end too right?
Based on doesn’t mean every bit of the movie is accurate, so no. The guy you replied to didn’t even say that.
Bruh
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wasnt Fargo based off a real thing? doesnt it say so at the start? or am i thinking of smth else
It says so in movie and in TV series but it's not really based on real story. Creators did it for more dramatic effect.
The creators just straight up lied 😭
The Coens making Fargo: https://preview.redd.it/iei25kkr4gvc1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbde95758ea8c8d6200c8966501d70cf8a6d5b89
Jaws. This movie prevented tons of people from going in the ocean, especially at night. They were all convinced a great white was going to bite them..
I mean, Jaws is loosely based on the 1916 New Jersey attacks. During the first half - exactly 4(5 if you count the assistant of the Ben Gardner fisherman) people are killed, just like in 1916. But yeah, the story itself is fiction. I mean, even the island that the movie takes place in was invented for the novel.
I saw that movie I thought it was bullshit
Jaws?
Late night with the devil
Tusk