Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies

Mar 11, 2012

2h 0m

★ 10.0

Real Fear

Overview

In Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies, Chiller investigates the terrifying factual stories that inspired some of the scariest horror movies of all time, including Silent Hill, The Amityville Horror, The Mothman Prophecies and Poltergeist, through exclusive eyewitness interviews and reenactments of actual events. Paranormal investigator Katrina Weidman (Paranormal State) travels with three of her friends into the dark recesses of the unknown to uncover the buried secrets behind these four iconic films. Journey down the haunted high-ways of the American East Coast on a road trip to discover the origins of our most beloved horror films made. From a grisly series of murders in the small town Amityville to a devastating, subterranean fire in the rural town of Centralia...From the eye-witness reports of the inexplicable, red-eyed creature known as Mothman to the documented paranormal activity that inspired Poltergeist...The movies may be fiction, but the fear is very, very real...

Genres

Documentary

Horror

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Cast

Self - Host

Katrina Weidman

Self - Host

Chris Holt

Self - Host

Charity Winters

Self - Host

John McGarry

Self - American Historian & Author

Richard Dolan

Self - Author, Dead Souls

Michael Laimo

Self - Amityville Eyewitness

Christopher Lutz

Self - Poltergeist Witness

Lucy Herrmann

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

7.4

Saw

Oct 1, 2004

Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.

6.4

Saw III

Oct 26, 2006

Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scrambles to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

6.6

Saw II

Oct 28, 2005

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

4.9

BnB HELL

Jun 16, 2017

A young woman's hunt for her missing sister ends at a rundown bed and breakfast in the Hollywood Hills run by an ill-tempered woman called Mommy. Disturbing messages left by former guests suggest unsettling secrets lay buried there.

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8.0

The Pig

Nov 2, 2018

An obnoxious trick or treater causes trouble for man which leads to a terrifying Halloween night.

0.0

What's in the Basket?

Sep 27, 2011

A documentary on the making of Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case trilogy.

9.0

Slicer

Sep 8, 2016

A man that dismembers bodies finds his life in danger when one of the corpses isn't really dead.

0.0

DINNER

Oct 31, 2021

A world class chef provides the meal for a strange picnic.

0.0

Mi adorado Monster

Nov 1, 2021

With humor, prolific director Víctor Matellano tells the story of one of the most iconic and problematic cult films of Spain's "fantaterror": Los resucitados by Arturo de Bobadilla. A story of ambition, frustration and the everlasting will of the most passionate cinephiles.

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9.0

Meister des Grauens - Thomas Gottschalk präsentiert Stephen King

Aug 21, 2014

With the help of elaborate re-enactments, TV star Thomas Gottschalk tells the dramatic story of King's life: his journey from alcoholic, penniless and completely impoverished author to multi-millionaire who was almost fatally injured in a car accident.

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2.7

A Chance In Hell

Jan 1, 2011

A Chance in Hell is set in the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Germany. US soldiers stumble upon a secret Nazi facility that has been overrun by creatures that were created in the lab of the nefarious Dr. Bücher.

4.5

Shrieker

Mar 3, 1998

Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".

4.3

Harvest of the Dead: Halloween Night

Aug 17, 2020

It's the day after the events of the first film and Sally Burns and her friends are preparing for a Halloween party. As the evening of fun kicks off, unbeknownst to them, The Plague Doctor and The Creature are preparing to join them.

6.8

你好，吸血鬼先生

Jul 8, 2016

Fantasy, Romance, Horror

3.5

Tyfelstei

Apr 8, 2014

A young man lands in a cut off village in the Swiss mountains and discovers a dark secret from the past, as the villagers made a pact with the devil...

0.0

Little Red Hen

Sep 7, 2023

Dealing with mental health, the story follows Valérie on her way to an important meeting that will turn into a real nightmare.

7.0

Fantasm

May 4, 2013

At 15 years old, Kyle Kuchta went to his first horror convention. Years later, he visits multiple cons to understand why these gatherings are so important to horror fans, vendors and celebrity guests.

5.6

Acacia

Oct 17, 2003

A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ensues.

6.6

Talhotblond

Feb 1, 2009

This is the true story of a love triangle that takes place entirely online. Lies lead to murder in real life, as a teenage vixen (screen name 'talhotblond') lures men into her web. Revealing a shocking true crime story that shows the Internet's power to unleash our most dangerous fantasies.

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