- Movies are meant to be entertaining and exciting,
but some people can't tell the difference
between reality and fiction.
- Wanna play psycho killer?
- Watching a movie is a great way to be entertained
and escape reality, but some people
don't understand that what they're watching
is purely for entertainment.
In fact, some people make it reality.
The following are real cases of people
who watched a fictional movie featuring
a gruesome scene and morbidly found inspiration
to replicate what they saw in the real world.
Prepare to dive into the mind of the disturbed,
because here are 10 movies that drove people to kill.
Number one is Robocop 2.
On March 25, 1991, serial killer Nathaniel White
began a killing spree in Orange County, New York,
after getting released from his prison parole.
He claimed a total of six victims,
all women that he brutally beat and stabbed to death.
His first victim was 29-year-old Julia Frank,
and he claimed that he had been inspired by the movie
Robocop 2, killing Frank in the same gruesome way
that a scene in the film portrayed.
After he was caught on August 2nd, 1992,
White confessed to police and described the scene calmly,
casually as if completely undisturbed.
He said that he saw someone get their throat slit
and then cut right down the chest in the film,
so he mimicked the entire thing,
right down to the position that the body was left in.
And on May 27th, 1993, White was sentenced to 150 years
in prison and today is still serving that sentence.
Number two is Natural Born Killers.
The 1994 Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers has inspired
some of the most hideous copycat murders in history.
The plot follows married couple Mickey and Mallory Knox
as they travel through the United States on a killing spree,
sparing almost no one.
The controversial film has spawned several serial killers,
including 19-year-old Sarah Edmondson
and 18-year-old Benjamin Darras.
On March 7th 1995, after watching the film two days earlier,
the couple left Oklahoma to head out on their
own version of the murderous road trip.
Ben ended up killing Mississippi businessman William Savage,
shooting him twice in the head at point blank range.
Later, he and Sarah robbed a convenience store,
where Sarah shot the cashier, Patsy Byers,
but failed to kill her.
Sadly, the bullet left Patsy a quadriplegic.
Both shooters were ultimately caught,
and Sarah is now out on parole after serving
less than 12 years of her 30-year sentence,
while her partner Ben continues to serve his life sentence.
Number three is A Nightmare On Elm Street.
On September 14th 2004, 23-year-old paranoid schizophrenic
Daniel Gonzalez, inspired by the 1984 horror film
A Nightmare On Elm Street went on a two-day
killing spree across London and Sussex.
Arming himself with numerous knives,
Gonzalez murdered four people and injured two others,
all random strangers as he acted out his own
gruesome Freddy Krueger nightmare.
He attacked his victims as they strolled along the street,
or by gaining access to their houses,
breaking in and stabbing them.
He claimed that he was inspired to be like Krueger,
who was his idol and that his goal
was to be a famous serial killer.
Reports stated that Gonzalez didn't receive
the proper treatment for his condition,
and was given six life sentences.
After his conviction, Gonzalez attempted to
commit suicide by biting through the artery in his arm.
He survived, but on August 9th 2007,
he succeeded in ending his own life
with the edges of a broken cd case in his prison cell.
Number four is Scream.
On August 13th 1998, 16-year-old Mario Salvador Padilla
and his 15-year-old cousin Samuel Jeremias Ramirez
murdered Gina, Padilla's mother.
Sam held the 37-year-old woman down
while Mario stabbed her with multiple knives and a
screwdriver in her apartment in Los Angeles, California.
The two teens were also prepared to murder
Padilla's stepfather, had he been home at the time.
Following that, they planned to go on a Scream-style
murder spree, even starting with a classmate who looked
a lot like the character played by Drew Barrymore,
who died in the first series.
They had wanted to buy grim reaper costumes and
voice-changing boxes, just like the murders in the movie,
but they couldn't because they were short on cash.
Both teens were tried as adults
and both were sentenced to life in prison.
Number five is Bug.
On June 3rd 2007, after becoming obsessed with the
2006 psycho-thriller Bug, a movie which explores
the line between reality and delusion,
36-year-old millionaire, insurance executive
Alberto Issaga did the unthinkable.
Experiencing some kind of extreme psychotic break,
Issaga believed that somehow his daughter, Yanir,
had become possessed by Satan,
and that he needed to kill her.
Be began screaming "God doesn't exist, die die die"
and "I have to kill her" while he clubbed the two-year-old
to death in front of his wife in their London apartment.
After paramedics arrived, he chanted the words "Big Ben"
for five minutes straight, and started to lick the face
of a neighbor that had arrived to help.
Ruled not guilty by reason of insanity,
the judge stated that his guilt would be worse
than any jail sentence he could ever receive.
Number six is Child's Play.
Considered Australia's worst serial killer,
29-year-old Martin Bryant claimed 35 victims and injured 23
more between April 28th and April 29th of 1996.
This event is now known as the Port Arthur Massacre.
Suffering from schizophrenia and with an IQ of only 66,
which is the average intelligence of an 11-year-old,
Bryant became enamored with Chucky,
the possessed doll from the Child's Play horror films.
Psychiatrists later claimed that those movies were
contributing factors into what transpired,
but it turns out that Bryant isn't the only murderer
that was inspired by this doll, either.
In England over the course of seven days in December
of 1992, 16-year-old Suzanne Capper was brutally tortured
while her captors chanted "Chucky's coming to play."
She was later set on fire, but survived long enough
to name her six kidnappers before falling into a coma
and ultimately dying.
Number seven is Queen of the Damned.
After watching the 2002 movie Queen of the Damned
over 100 times, 22-year-old Allan Menzies of
Fauldhouse Scotland claimed that the fictional vampire
from the movie, named Akasha,
came to him in the middle of the night.
In his delusion, he explained that Akasha had promised him
immortality as a vampire if he murdered someone.
In December of 2002, Menzies murdered a childhood friend,
21-year-old Thomas McKendrick after McKendrick had
simply made a derogatory remark about the movie character.
Menzies smashed him over the head with a hammer,
stabbed him a total of 42 times,
and even began drinking his blood.
Even more disturbing is the fact that after Menzies
killed McKendrick, he ate part of his head
before he buried him in a shallow grave.
A short time later, Menzies attempted suicide
in order to reach the next life and
reap his vampiric rewards, but he failed.
He was arrested and in October of 2003,
he was sentenced to life in prison.
It wasn't a long stay, though, as in November of 2004,
he finally got his wish and hung himself in his cell.
Number eight is The Exorcist.
On February 22nd of 1980, in Wichita Falls, Texas,
after The Exorcist was aired on television,
25-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Patricia Fraser
believed that her daughter, Kunji Wilson,
was possessed by demons, so she decided to carve out
the four-year-old's heart.
She claimed that she saw grass growing out of
her daughter's chest, and was ordered to cut it out
by spirits that were reportedly touching her body.
Despite Fraser's condition, it was psychologists that
claimed that it was a scene in the movie that caused the
murder, due to how normal she seemed during that same day.
She was tried once, resulting in a hung jury and a mistrial,
only to be tried again and be found innocent by
reason of insanity in June of 1981.
Fraser was ultimately sent to the Wichita Falls
State Hospital, to be treated until she was released
into the custody of her mother on February 2nd, 1982.
Number nine is American Psycho.
Released in 2000, the movie American Psycho
was said to be the inspiration for a classroom stabbing.
In February of 2004, 14-year-old Michael Hernandez
stabbed a fellow classmate, 14-year-old Jamie Gogh,
more than 40 times and slit his throat in a bathroom
at the Southwood Middle School in Miami, Florida.
Hernandez admitted that he identified with the murderer
Patrick Bateman in the movie, and wanted to simply
become a real-life serial killer.
The murder was him acting out his role
as the character in the film.
Michael had a plan, however,
and believed that he was given special powers by God,
who agreed with Michael's decision to stab his friend.
In 2008, Hernandez was found guilty of first degree murder
and sentenced to life in prison.
However, after a US Supreme Court ruling in 2012,
Michael became eligible for another hearing,
to determine a new sentencing,
but what's most disturbing is that on February 22nd, 2016,
after more than a decade behind bars,
he was found to be just as obsessed
with the murder and gore as he was when he was just 14,
and was given yet another life sentence.
And number 10 is The Ten Commandments.
Between February and June of 1959,
23-year-old Heinrich Pomerenki attacked a number of women
in Hornburg, Germany, taking four lives
and attempting to rape and kill dozens more.
He blamed the movie The Ten Commandments for his crimes,
claiming that the way that the film depicted women
made him believe that they were the root of all evil
and needed to be punished.
But even before he started his commandments-inspired
murder spree, at 15 years old, he became a rapist
in Mecklenburg, Germany and from there,
he continued his sexual assaulting into Switzerland
and Austria, too, avoiding police persecution all the way.
And he may have gotten away with everything,
had it not been for his actions on June 18, 1959,
when he brought a suit to the tailor for mending.
The suit, it turns out, was stained with blood,
and with it, Heinrich had left behind a briefcase
which contained a sawed-off shotgun,
and on October 22nd 1960, Heinrich was given
six separate life sentences, as well as 140 years in prison.
He died there on December 27th, 2008.
So, those were 10 movies that drove people to kill,
but I want to know from you what you think of these stories.
Are these movies partly responsible for these murders?
Or are they entirely on the individual?
Leave your comments below because I'll be reading through
them and I'm going to pin the best one to the top.
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