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"Adapting according to real events" is an unavoidable temptation for many movie fans. If this sentence appears at the beginning, it invisibly adds a lot of color to the whole film. In addition to real people and stories with realistic themes, there are also some legends and anecdotes with unrealistic themes, which make people fall into it every time. There are even many famous real events that are appreciated by countless directors, even if it is a haunted house.

If there is a ranking of the super-popular haunted houses that are still being adapted, the first one is "Amityville Cabin".

In 1974, a bloody night was ushered in an apartment on Ocean Avenue in Amityville. In addition to Butch, 23, his parents, two younger brothers and two younger sisters were shot, and six bodies died in bed overnight. The younger brothers were still asleep when they were lying on the bed.

The police quickly arrested Butch. After interrogation, Butch admitted that he killed his family with a.35 caliber gun at 3 am.

However, he didn’t give any explanation about the motive of committing the crime. He just said that he was encouraged by the devil at that time, and there was always a voice in his ear asking him to do so, and he couldn’t control himself at all. Naturally, this statement could not be recognized by the judicial authorities, and Butch was given a mental appraisal. The result showed that he was conscious at the time of committing the crime and was finally sentenced to life imprisonment.

The whole process of solving the case seems to have no suspense, but in fact it hides many doubts.

Butch fired six shots in his home at three o’clock in the morning with a.35 gun that was not silenced, but there was no sign of struggle or running at the scene. It’s hard to explain that all the dead died in their own rooms. After all, the first shot didn’t wake up, and the subsequent shots should also make the family feel wrong, but not only did the body find no drug residue, but even no traces of movement.

But at that time, these doubts were not taken seriously. Just one year later, another family moved into the house. At this time, the Georges obviously heard of similar suspicions. Before moving in, they invited a priest to exorcise evil spirits in every room, from the bedroom to the kitchen, even the bathroom. But when the priest entered the bedroom where Butch shot his brother, he heard a harsh voice: "Get out!"

The priest told the George family about it, but he still couldn’t stop the family from moving in. In this way, the strange 28 days began.

After moving in, George found that the sleeping position of the children had become prone, but in the past, when he went to check whether the children were sleeping every night, they were all lying on their sides. George’s sleep quality has also become very poor. Gunshots can always be heard in his dreams, and every time he wakes up, he is around three in the morning.

All this seems like a coincidence to George, and it may be caused by his own psychological suggestion to a great extent, and he didn’t care. In the second week of moving in, George found his little daughter talking out of the window. He went up to ask, but her daughter said she had a new friend. George thought her daughter was hallucinating, but he found the child’s footprints outside her window.

Finally, to George’s horror, viscous liquid oozed from the walls of the house and his wife found a small hidden compartment behind the cupboard in the basement.

The wall of the compartment was painted red and not marked on the architectural blueprint of the house. Their dog seemed to be afraid of this secret room. In just 28 days, Jeangeorges collapsed completely, endured huge economic pressure and returned the house to the real estate agent.

Later, a reporter from new york TV Channel 5 and WNEW-FM reported this haunted event in Amityville, which attracted several experts who claimed to study supernatural science. At the invitation of this new york reporter, people went to No.112 Ocean Boulevard to explore, including warren couple who was invited.

The realistic prototype of the story "Evocation" not only photographed the famous "evil boy", but also learned that the first owner of this house was a dark magic practitioner and was buried under this house after his death. Later, it was used by Indians to hold mental patients and buried many dead mental patients nearby.

This incident was not only written into a book (The Amityville Horror, A True Story) by the writers at that time, but also attracted a lot of attention at that time, with a total circulation of over 6 million copies. Subsequently, there are countless works adapted from this, the most famous of which is the amityville horror series. This house was directly made into eight works, and even was remake in 2005.

Even James Wan mentioned this thing at the beginning of "Evocation", which can be described as an explosion story adapted from a haunted house. Please directly refer to the current situation of "Capital 81" in China for its influence.

In addition to unnatural phenomena, man-made events are often included in the director’s adaptation. Although this practice is the strength of Korean films, watching a few films at will may be real. Just like the news that the real murderer was arrested in memories of murder, which was mentioned last year, such people who take killing as the end of pleasure are found in almost every country, and the "Zodiac Killer" incident, which was wildly adapted and borrowed, has also become the material of many film and television works.

The zodiac killer first appeared in December 1968, killing a 17-year-old boy and his girlfriend in California. According to police investigation, the Zodiac killer shot the boy in the head and found five bullets in the girl ten meters away.

Then there was another golf course murder case, and most of the victims were lovers and young people who were alone. Originally, these two cases only made the police station explode, and all the police officers were searching for clues to the case. The reason why the Zodiac killer was known by more people was not that, but that he sent a letter to several newspapers 26 days after the incident.

The signature of the letter is "Zodiac Killer". The content not only says that he is responsible for two murders, but also gives a password consisting of 408 characters, and claims that after cracking these passwords, he can know his specific identity. And asked the media to put these letters on the front page of every newspaper.

Otherwise, he will kill some loners every weekend until he kills 12.

In the next few years, he still committed crimes, and after each crime, he left clues and set passwords for newspapers and police. This even became a cultural phenomenon at that time. Not only did a large number of people pretending to be zodiac killers write letters to the police station, but also people pretending to be zodiac killers came from the first place.

However, the real "zodiac killer" has never been brought to justice. In his letter, he constantly challenged the police’s detection ability. This is actually a fact. Until the "Zodiac Killer" almost disappeared, the police did not speculate who he was.

Subsequently, his image was put into Dirty Harry in 1971, and it was written into a book. There are still three letters that have not been deciphered in all the letters sent, and the last one was put on the screen by david fincher, with the title of Zodiac.

Sometimes, the opening sentence based on "real events" at the beginning of the film will make people forget the story, and when the film ends, the audience will feel creepy and find that reality is far more fantastic than the film.

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