this is just a dream he isn't real
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welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie monsters inspired by real life
how do you get people to protect
themselves from something they don't
believe in for this list we'll be
looking at monstrous creatures from
movies whose creation was influenced by
real people and folklore which of these
real monsters do you find the scariest
let us know in the comments
number 10 immotep the mummy
today many people associate immotep with
arnold voslu's villain in the modern
mummy franchise but it was a legendary
horror actor boris karloff who first
brought him to the screen in 1932.
both versions are loosely based on a
historical figure have we not met before
miss grosvenor
no
i don't think so
i don't think one would forget meeting
you out of me
then i am mistaken no the real immotep
was not a mummy who came back to life
and killed people in the 27th century
bce immotep was a chancellor under
pharaoh jose and may be the architect of
his step pyramid over 1 000 years after
his death imotep became the subject of a
cult and was regarded as a demigod he
was also seen as ancient egyptian
renaissance man of sorts versed in a
wide variety of subjects and writing
various wisdom texts
you will not remember what i show you
now
and yet i shall awaken memories
of love
and crime
and death number nine
the host
before receiving a claim for his film
parasite south korean director bong joon
ho directed a monster movie called the
host it follows a man whose daughter is
kidnapped by a mutant fish
the premise is based on real events back
in 2000 an american man named albert
mcfarland who ran the morgue in the u.s
military base in seoul ordered employees
to dump almost 200 bottles of
formaldehyde down a drain that led to
the han river this is the event that
kicks off the film this is not just any
toxic chemicals so johan river is very
broad mr kim let's try to be
broad-minded about this
the monster itself was based on an
article that bong read about a deformed
fish with an s-shaped spine caught in
that same river
number eight dr jekyll and mr hyde
various dr jekyll you are wanted by the
knights of the holy order
now the murder of 12 men six women four
children three dogs and a rather nasty
massacre of poultry written in 1886 by
robert lewis stevenson the gothic
novella strange case of dr jekyll and mr
hyde has inspired numerous movie
adaptations remember you belong to media
here
you belong to me
if you do one thing that i don't approve
of while i'm gone
the least little thing mind you
i'll show you what halal means the
original tale drew on a couple of
real-life cases
one was william brody a scottish deacon
who broke into the houses of the rich
and stole their valuables he used the
money to fund his gambling addiction he
was eventually hanged of his crimes
another was eugene chantrell a personal
friend of robert louis stevenson who was
convicted of killing his own wife i
grant you i have no beauty
but under this exterior
you'll find a very flower
stevenson was fascinated with the
dichotomy between outward good and
inward evil and he drew inspiration from
these cases to craft the novella's
central character
number seven the demon
veronica this spanish film from director
paco plaza is one of the most acclaimed
possession movies of the 21st century it
is also supposedly based on a true story
in the early 90s a student in madrid
named estefania gutierrez lazaro held a
seance to contact her friend's boyfriend
who had recently died in a motorcycle
accident after a teacher interrupted the
seance eyewitnesses reportedly saw a
smokey apparition entering lazzaro's
nose
she soon began experiencing seizures and
hallucinations and in 1991 died in
mysterious circumstances
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reportedly a police report claimed that
her house was haunted it is now known as
the valaikas case and it's one of
madrid's most famous stories of the
paranormal
number six the blob
the blob
doc
it's gotten bigger i was just on his
hand before
cover him with this please all right let
me give it something known for steve
mcqueen's first leading role the blob is
a classic b movie from the late 50s the
titular monster consumes everything it
touches in small town pennsylvania and
it came to earth inside a meteorite
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believe it or not this thing has a real
world precedent back in 1950 four police
officers in philadelphia pennsylvania
discovered a mysterious blob of what
looked like jelly measuring six feet in
diameter this mysterious gelatinous
substance is known as star jelly and
reports of it date back to the 14th
century
no one knows for sure what it is the
homeowner has no idea what it is and he
fears well this gooey stuff could be
from out of this world number five
chucky child's play
hi i'm jackie wanna play
chucky actually has numerous
inspirations believe it or not none of
them are human spirits trapped inside a
doll writer don mancini wanted to
comment on the flagrant consumerism of
the 80s and was largely inspired by the
cabbage patch kids craze director tom
holland not the spider-man tom holland
also said that the design of chucky was
influenced by the my buddy dolls of the
mid-80s in a surprising twist for the
time my buddy dolls were marketed
primarily at young boys
andy no please
we're friends to the end remember
this is the end friend
it's been speculated that chucky was
also inspired by robert the doll a
allegedly haunted doll that supposedly
terrorized its owners he now resides in
a florida museum
we don't know if the legend of robert
terrorizing passing children from his
window moving when people are looking
tearing up rooms is true but legends
says you asked permission to take a
picture and we are polite ghost hunters
number four gustav primeval
starring dominic purcell primeval is an
adventure horror film about a team of
journalists who set out to capture a
giant man-eating crocodile there are
many monster films of its ilk but unlike
those this one is based on reality
gustav is an actual crocodile from
burundi africa who is said to be over 18
feet long weigh 2 000 pounds and to have
killed 300 people he hunts the razoozy
river and lake tanganyika as in the film
a team did travel to burundi to film and
capture him producing the 2004
documentary capturing the killer croc
however their experiences weren't quite
as dramatic as in primeval
number three freddy krueger a nightmare
on elm street
one of the most iconic slasher villains
of all time freddie kruger has a ton of
different influences he's named after
wes craven's school tormentor fred
kruger he was also inspired by a
childhood event in which a man stopped
outside craven's house and eerily stared
at him through the window but the basic
idea behind the villain was sparked by
an article about traumatized among
refugees in the u.s who suffered from
horrific nightmares and refused to sleep
whatever you do
don't
fall asleep some eventually died in
their sleep a phenomenon that was called
asian death syndrome at the time it's
now thought to have been due to a
genetic disorder called brugada syndrome
that leads to sudden heart attacks
i'm crazy after all
number two jaws jaws
you're gonna need a bigger boat steven
spielberg's masterpiece was based on
peter benchley's novel of the same name
but he in turn was inspired by the
jersey shore shark attacks of 1916.
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nearly 60 years before benchley's novel
was published four people were killed by
sharks off the coast of new jersey
one other was injured and this all
occurred during a brutal heat wave in
july it's believed that either a great
white or a bull shark was responsible
this historic event inspired numerous
aspects of benchley's story for example
resort towns faced economic devastation
by the resulting panic and many people
went on open water shark hunts to kill
the offending creatures
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number one godzilla godzilla
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this iconic movie was released less than
a decade after the end of the second
world war and that's no coincidence
godzilla might have been a monster movie
but it also had higher thematic
ambitions born from nuclear radiation
godzilla represented fears of nuclear
holocaust the japanese experienced this
first hand in august 1945 when the u.s
dropped atomic bombs on the city's
hiroshima and nagasaki killing up to 226
000 people mostly civilians art director
akira watanabe studied the scars
suffered by survivors to create
godzilla's skin hence also the monster's
atomic breath
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