facts verse presents ten disturbing
brutal movies based on real-life
atrocities number one The Strangers
director bryan bertino wrote the script
for his 2008 sleeper hit The Strangers
based not only on a true event from his
own childhood but on two other true
stories of heinous crimes he states his
main inspiration for the screenplay was
the story of the Manson Family murders
as recorded in the true crime book
helter skelter but also gives a nod to
the events of the Cadi cabin murders in
1981 The Strangers is a truly disturbing
home-invasion story not for the
squeamish or faint of heart what unfolds
in the story is a psychological night of
terror that pits a young couple against
three masked strangers who invade their
remote getaway gore and mayhem ensues
mixed reviews of the film were given by
critics number 2 hostel hostel was
written and directed by Eli Roth this
2005 horror film had Quentin Tarantino
as one of its executive producers and is
the first installment of the hostel
trilogy series the film portrays the
story of two college students
backpacking through Europe who are lured
to a Slovakian hostel where they find
themselves trapped in a sinister
situation while drawn into a deadly game
by a mysterious group that kidnaps then
tortures and kills victims dealing with
the sickest darkest recesses of human
nature the film features plenty of gore
and guts
unbelievably Roth's hostel started out
as a documentary about an underground
extreme thrill seeking practice
involving paid murder but he changed his
mind as he began to fear retribution by
the ringleaders of the business hostel
is considered the popular Xena
of torture porn number three zodiac the
2007 thriller zodiac by director David
Fincher is based on Robert gray-smith
nonfiction novel of the same title
zodiac tells the story of one of
California's most infamous unsolved
crime waves it occurred during the late
1960s and early 1970s and involved the
self named Zodiac serial killer who
murdered several people and was
responsible for a massive manhunt during
which he taunted the police with ciphers
sent to the press letters to the police
and blood tainted clothing from his
victims Fincher and screenplay writer
James Vanderbilt as well as their
producer spent more than a year on their
own investigation and thoroughly
researched the real zodiac murders
Fincher was drawn to the story because
he grew up in Marin County during the
zodiacs reign of terror and considered
him to be the ultimate boogeyman he also
wanted to clearly present facts and not
fiction as the story has assumed
mythical proportions through the decades
since because of its unfinished nature
Fincher balances the violent the
disturbing and the hilarious while
building the sense of dread that
permeated the lives of normal people
during that time the ending leaves
audiences unsettled number four boys
don't cry Kimberly Peirce's 1999
romantic drama boys don't cry was
written by Pierce and Andy Beane and
tells the story of a transgender man who
adopts the male identity of Brandon
Teena while trying to find himself and
discover love in a small Nebraska town
in the end he falls victim to a
transphobia and a brutal crime committed
by two male acquaintances hailed as a
tragic vision of fear and prejudice in
small-town America the film won multiple
award nominations and Hilary Swank
who portrayed Brandon won the 2000
Academy Award
best actress some people who knew
Brandon criticized the film for
inaccurate portrayals of certain events
yet prior to filming Pierce interviewed
the people closely involved in Brandon's
rape and murder case and immersed
herself in the trial transcripts and
other available information about his
murder much factual information from
this study was incorporated into this
moving yet terrifying film number five
bully a disturbing psychological study
of bullying director Larry Clarke's film
bully shares the true story of a high
school bully who was eventually murdered
by the very kids he bullied
it is also an honest key study of the
bullies and of group mentality as well
as the complex dark portrayal of the
confused emotional state of teenagers
this psychological crime drama is based
on the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent in
South Florida by the Broward County 7as
the teens came to be called the
screenplay was adapted from the
non-fiction book bully a true story of
high school revenge by Jim shoots
critics praised the movies
straightforward disturbing handling of
youth murder and crime but gave it mixed
reviews Roger Ebert was a notable
admirer
however stating that the movie was all
the sadness and shabby nacelle the mess
and cruelty and thoughtless stupidity of
the true crime of which it is based
number six twelve years a slave
a disturbing visual record of the
horrors of the slave trade twelve years
a slave
boldly pulls no punches in presenting
the brutality of slavery this 2013
period drama film is an adaptation of
Solomon northup's 12 years a slave his
memoir Northup was a Freeborn New York
man of color who was kidnapped in 1841
in Washington DC and sold into slavery
he was transported to work on
plantations in Louisiana
for the next 12 years before his
eventual release director Stephen
McQueen
stunned when he originally read
northup's memoir and made it his passion
to turn this first-hand account of
slavery into a film 12 years a slave won
the Academy Award and Golden Globe for
Best Picture as well as the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts best
film award the scholarly edition of the
memoir published in the 1960s was
validated and concluded by experts to be
an accurate record of actual events
number 7 Wolf Creek inspired by the
actual killings of backpackers in the
1990s in Australia Wolf Creek is a
bloodletting exploitation film with
plenty of knives of slicing some
audience members walked out of its early
screenings it is one of the most brutal
movies based on real-life atrocities
labeled as vicious cruel cynical
misogynistic and other things the film
was nevertheless nominated for multiple
awards from the Australian Academy of
Cinema and Television Arts three
backpackers stranded in the Australian
outback become embroiled in a hellish
nightmare when they are befriended by a
local who turns out to be a torturing
sadistic psychopath serial killing pig
hunter Mick Taylor the film was
ambiguously touted as being based on
true events these events seemed to be
based on the true life murders of
tourists in the 1990s by ivan mello and
in 2001 by bradley murdock wolf creek is
a real location although it is spelled
wolf creek wo LF any mistakenly believe
the entire film is based on a true story
but it is only influenced by these
others number 8 rosewood
boys in the hood director John Singleton
directed his 1997 historical fiction
drama Rosewood as a no-holds-barred look
at racist violence and racism in the
American South
this violent movie is hard to watch as
it is based on historic events of the
1923 Rosewood massacre in the town of
that name in Florida during which a
white mob killed blacks and burned down
their town rosewood is historical
fiction because while it is based on
true events it contains some major
changes such as the addition of an
outsider who comes to help the people of
Rosewood with their self-defense and
used his guns in the fight it also has a
higher body count than what actually
occurred in Rosewood the film is rated R
for its assaults violence and sexual
assault scenes as well as profuse use of
curses and racial slurs while favorably
received by many critics
it wasn't a commercial success the long
suppressed story of the real rosewood
was revealed in the late 20th century
when survivors want a claim against the
state of Florida for not protecting them
historically that was the first time
victims of racial violence were
compensated by any state government in
the United States other story changes
involved making composites of several
actual historical figures and the film
offering the potential for a happy
ending
er Shipp of The New York Times wrote the
film assumes a lot and makes up a lot
more he felt the creation of an outside
helper was condescending to the town's
actual survivors number 9 whistleblower
the 2010 biographical crime drama The
Whistleblower is based on a true story
of a police officer recruited to be a UN
peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and
Herzegovina who became embroiled in a
nightmare of a different kind from
post-war concerns in real life Katherine
bull Kovac of Nebraska was recruited by
the United Nations as a peacekeeper for
DynCorp international and discovered a
sex trafficking operation the
corporation backs while the UN turns a
blind eye after being fired for trying
to shut it down she told her story to
the BBC and won a wrongful termination
lawsuit against the company director
Larissa kondraki co-wrote the screenplay
of this fictionalized dramatic version
based on bulk evacs experiences and not
her written memoir in the film the two
young women who are trafficked into
Bosnia are composites of all the girls
forced to work in the country's brothels
a pseudonym was used for DynCorp details
of the bureaucracy were left out but the
inhumane treatment of the young women
was bluntly and graphically displayed
most notably by a scene of a rape with a
lead pipe the movie received mixed
reviews with some critics calling the
violence exploitative number 10
compliance though it contains very
little violence 2012's compliance is one
of the most disturbing films to be
produced in the last few years the
action takes place almost completely in
a fast-food restaurant and is closely
based on a true story a strip-search
prank call scam and a Kentucky
McDonald's that manipulated people
through the study of the nature of
suggestion power gender relations and
subservience the psychologically
disturbing nature of the film makes it
very difficult to sit through and watch
a police officer calls the manager of a
fast-food restaurant and requests that
the manager detain an employee accused
by a customer of the
left the officer also requires her to
perform unlawful and intrusive
procedures on her involving sexual acts
the film premiered at the 2012 Sundance
Film Festival and the audience response
included some walk outs subscribe for
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