Any other movies that state "this is based on real events" but isn't?
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inconsequentia-1 — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 10:58 AM)
IIRC, it's quite possible that "The Blair Witch Project" could apply to what you're talking about. Not only did it pretend to be found footage of a project of real students, but I recall a website promoting it as such. (This is how my fiancee and I were able to freak out his younger brother when we took him to see it. To be fair, he's always been pretty suggestable? We did tell him afterwards.)
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Freddyfan951 — 10 years ago(November 01, 2015 02:51 PM)
This happens allot with horror movies, with the events either being highly exaggerated or completely fabricated.
Exaggerated example: A Haunting in Connecticut. Yes, a family lived in a house with ghosts in in and one of them got sick, only to get completely better once they moved out of the house. But in the movie, the severity of the hauntings were vey amped up, plus that whole mortuary backstory thrown in.
Fabricated example: Texas chainsaw massacre. Original and remakes say that these are based on true events that actually happened. They were not. It was partly based on the 1950s Wisconsin killer Ed Gein, who made furniture and masks out of his victim's bodies. But Gein only killed two people (old women that resembled his mother) and got most of the parts from graverobbing. He killed alone, never with a chainsaw, and never cannabalized anyone. -
creightonhale — 10 years ago(March 17, 2016 04:51 PM)
I can think of one film that actually says,
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now,
for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?
This is from
Plan 9 from Outer Space
, and that it is based on fact is as absurd as what Creswell says in this opening monologue. Still, it makes the claim you are looking for.
And he ends the film with this:
My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn't happen?
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chouse1020 — 9 years ago(June 01, 2016 07:33 PM)
Sorry if I missed somebody else calling it out, but I didn't notice one of the biggest ones of all.
The Amityville Horror.
The original was claimed to be real, but years later it was revealed that it was all BS and the actual mass murderer (Butch De Feo) can't seem to tell the same story twice, so he's completely unreliable to discuss the crime; however the haunting part was all made up to make money, even though they claimed it was all real. -
Wuchakk — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 09:56 PM)
I wonder if there are other films that lie and pretend that they are "based on a true story"?
"Macon County Line" from 1974. I felt duped after watching the movie and finding out it wasn't a true story at all.
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Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 