A horror based rant

This is another random post. Sorry for the lack of flower baby posts, I'll do an update on her soon, I promise!

Being someone who is fairly passionate about horror films, I get frequently irritated by the fact that a lot of them claim to be "based on a true story". I know saying that will increase the horror and tends to increase audience sizes. But when a film says "based on a true story" please bare in mind that it's very *loosely* based on a true story. And especially ones that say "inspired by a true story" like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre you have to read between the lines. The story is completely made up, but the villan Leatherface was *inspired* by a real murderer Ed Gein.

That said, I'm planning a horror movie night on Friday with my bestest friend so I've been looking at a few trailers on Youtube. I watched three trailers for The Conjuring and all of them focus on that the film is based on a true story. Now, I don't believe in ghosts or demons or anything like that, so me being me I looked up the events that the film is based on. There wasn't much that I could dig up, apart from members of the Perron family confirming that the story is true. Of course, these family members could be being paid to say that, in order to keep the public interested. But honestly, I'm doubtful. To me it sounds like events have been greatly exaggerated. Could be a group of people hoping to make money off some story that they made up. There is no hard evidence that proves that these things happened. However, that's just my opinion and something that I wanted to get off my chest.

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