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Jun 4, 2021 · Universal Pictures. According to an extra featurette on the film's DVD release called "Defining Moments: Writing and Directing The Strangers," the screenplay was inspired by a real-life incident...
Jul 30, 2020 · The Real-Life Event That The Strangers Is Based On. Shutterstock. By Nicole Rosenthal / Updated: July 30, 2020 10:10 am EST. Scary movies are downright fun to watch, especially if the film claims to be based on true events. What's more fun than sleuthing around the internet to determine if the events were actually true?
Aug 21, 2023 · The Strangers: The True Stories That Inspired The Modern Horror Franchise. Universal. By Jeremy Smith / Aug. 21, 2023 1:00 pm EST. When it comes to exploiting our deepest, darkest fears,...
In interviews, Bertino stated he was "very impressed" with some of the theories circulating on the Internet about the "true events" the movie is allegedly based on, but said that his main inspiration was the true crime book Helter Skelter, which is about the Manson Family murders; some journalists speculated that the film was also inspired by ...
Mar 11, 2018 · As far as we can tell, it's not based on a true story. Which, actually, brings us back to one of the most contentious facts about the original film. Did you think The Strangers actually happened...
Though the first film was marketed as "based on a true story", this was a misdirect as the filmmaker stated that he wrote the concept from a series of break-in burglaries that took place in his neighborhood when he was growing up, as well as borrowing elements from the Manson Family Tate killings. [1] .
Mar 26, 2018 · As far as we can tell, it's not based on a true story. Which, actually, brings us back to one of the most contentious facts about the original film. Did you think The Strangers actually happened...
