Poll: I Got Something Scary For You

Results of 154 votes:

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   Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    

   “Red Dragon” and “The Silence of the Lambs” (novels) by Thomas Harris. Dr Hannibal Lecter, is based on Alfredo Ballí Treviño, who was known as the “Wolfman of Nuevo León,” murdered his lover and sever…
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   Linda Blair in The Exorcist (1973)

    

   ”The Exorcist” (Novel) by William Peter Blatty is based on 2 exorcisms which were combined in the book: the 1949 exorcism of “Roland Doe” and the 1634 Loudon possessions of nuns.
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   Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

    

   “Dracula” (novel and Play) by Bram Stoker. I think everybody now knows that Dracula is based on Vlad the Impaler.
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   Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)

    

   ”Psycho” (novel) by Robert Bloch. Norman Bates is loosely based on Ed Gein who skinned his victims and made things out of their skins, like a suit. Gein knew taxidermy like Bates does. Other films are…
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   Shelley Duvall in The Shining (1980)

    

   ”The Shining” (novel) by Stephen King. While the book is actually about his feelings about his father, Mr. King used the stories about hauntings at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado “which ove…
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   The Body Snatcher (1945)

    

   “The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson (21 pages long) is about grave robbers stealing bodies and selling them to medical colleges so that the medical students can dissect them and learn. The h…
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   John Dall and Farley Granger in Rope (1948)

    

   ”Rope” a play by Patrick Hamilton. The fictional play was based on the thrill murders of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb whose story was told a few more times in movies by different authors. They were…
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   John Cusack in 1408 (2007)

    

   1408 (short story) by Stephen King. “The story was inspired by real incidents at San Diego's Hotel del Coronado, where a young woman named Kate Morgan took her own life.” https://screenrant.com/1408-m…
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   The Ripper approaches his latest victim as she lays asleep in her bed.

    

   ”From Hell” (comic book series / Graphic Novel) by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. Any movie or book claiming to reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper has to be fiction because that madman serial kill…
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    Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

     

    ”The Phantom of the Opera” (novel) by Gaston Leroux is based on a single horrifying event in the story, the crashing of the chandelier. At the Paris opera, Palais Garnier, in May 1986, near the end of…
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    Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

     

    ”The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde” (novella 61 pages long) by Robert Louis Stevenson. While RLS transformed the case into a horror story and a tale of science gone mad, he did base his cha…
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    Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar (1931)

     

    “Little Caesar” (novel) by W. R. Burnett. While the IMDb states that the character Cesare Enrico Bandello is based on Chicago mobster Salvatore "Sam" Cardinella, another source states it wa…
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    Dean Stockwell and Richard Anderson in Compulsion (1959)

     

    ”Compulsion” (novel) by Meyer Lavin which is also based on murders committed by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, but this version goes into their trial.
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    Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Rea, and Beryl Reid in The Doctor and the Devils (1985)

     

    ”The Doctor and The Devils” (short story) by Donald Taylor. It is the same as “The Body Snatcher” up above — Burke and Hare.