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Top 5 Scary Movies Based on Real Life Events [VIDEOS]
With the Conjuring 2 in theaters, it got us thinking that sometimes scary movies are even scarier when you learn that are based on real life events! Here are our Top 5 picks!
#5 - The Amityville Horror - The Movie is based on the lives of the Lutze Family, who moved out of a home in just 28 days after experiencing paranormal activity!
#4 - The Conjuring - This movie follows the story of two paranormal investigators as they investigate a home. Ed and Lorraine Warren are very much real and very much alive today!
#3 - The Girl Next Store - This movie is based on events that officials called "the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana."
#2 - Open Water - This movie is based on a couple who were left behind while out diving and attacked by sharks!
#1 - The Exorcist - This movie was based on a book about a 1949 Exorcism of Roland Dow
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