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Based on True Events…Maybe

Started by Mike Davis (mcdavis) · 10 months ago

UPDATE: I’ve made a followup to this post.  Click here to check it out.
I was going through some new trailers that I put off watching and I came across The Strangers. The Apple Trailers website description of the trailer is what got me interested in watching.
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48 comments

  • mike

    1 year ago

    Lapeer is right by me and I've not ever heard of a murder or killing of this type, so I'm going to guess the address has been changed.
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  • Kassi

    5 months ago

    Other than the address, I have never heard anything on the news. "Inspired by true events" yeah maybe.......for HOLLYWOOD! The movie was a waste of 2 hours and whatever it cost to rent it.
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  • Rich

    1 year ago

    When movies are based on true events, i know it makes me want to see it more - i think it adds more suspense and horror to the movie knowing that this could and has actually happened before.
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  • mike

    1 year ago

    I think the scariest part of that trailer is when you realized it's based off true events and not something supernatural. It adds a really creepy vibe to the film. I'm actually eagerly anticipating this as a good scary horror film.
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  • jasonenglish

    1 year ago

    I agree Mike, it definitely looks good.
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  • Donna Ewing 30

    1 year ago

    Ok after seeing the trailer once or twice I am ready and waiting, however, I too like to know the complete background before getting started, just so I can really truely know how horrifing it could have truely ended up before hollywood got their hands all over it. ( I promise that doesn't make me sick, my grandfather was police detective growing up). Anyway, I've done alot of searching and found a couple of addresses that matched bo no murders, but does that mean we're giving away the ending? Could totally be over analyzing it, but even old newspapers didn't have records. anyway, just a thought. Pease out!
    Donna
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  • lauren

    1 year ago

    Ok first of all the hoyt family was not mrudered. PAY ATTENTION there was a couple in the hoyt family vacation home. All the information given to you states that the events (not murder) are not entirely known. Your jumping the gun here. You dont really know if they die or not and if the events are still unknown that means the case could still be under investigation limiting the facts they were able to put in the script. Besides its Hollywood have you all forgotten the many terrible Amittyville movies that were no where near what actually happened?
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  • Misanthrope

    1 year ago

    Are you all retarded? I suppose you believe The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Blair Witch Project were true stories, as well? Kindly get fixed, so you don't pass the stupidity on to another generation.
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  • CP

    8 months ago

    Actually the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was influenced by the serial killer Ed Gein as well as other movies.
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  • Jeanine

    1 year ago

    PROOF IT IS NOT BASED ON A TRUE STORY:
    FROM la times 2006
    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movie...

    From rags to writer on the back of fear

    Two years ago, 28-year-old Bryan Bertino was just a gaffer on commercials and low-budget independent films, hoping to accumulate enough hours to get into the electrician's union.

    Smash cut to today, and the Texas-born handyman has been reborn as a newly minted writer-director, with a go picture, "The Strangers," at Universal, which begins shooting in three weeks in a desolate stretch of South Carolina on a $10-million budget. Liv Tyler scored the female lead after actresses as diverse as Thandie Newton and Oscar winner Charlize Theron circled the project looking for a dark suspense picture to give their careers a shot of adrenaline.

    Bertino's offering ingeniously mixes highbrow and low, realistic romantic turmoil and in extremis primal terror. On their way back from a wedding (in February!), a couple in their mid-20s decides to forgo the hotel for a night in the house in which the man's family grew up. In the midst of all the relationship turmoil that milestone events such as this stir up, three extremely antagonistic strangers intrude (one of whom will look like 19-year-old Aussie supermodel Gemma Ward, in her unfashionably hostile acting debut). Who gets to keep the "Zoolander" DVD quickly becomes the least of the couple's worries.

    The screenplay is deft, economical and dread-filled; it couples a detective's ominous voiceover catalog of items found at the scene with the disturbing imagery of the horrible events' aftermath. The script then quickly shifts back in time to the couple's middle of the night entrance in mid-fight, which provides a realistic, original twist on the standard introduction of the victims. With plot and thematic elements that evoke the claustrophobic thrillers "Open Water," "Straw Dogs" and "Panic Room," the intense experience that follows begs each moviegoer to wonder, "How would I behave if it were me?"

    "What I wanted to do was focus in on their relationship and then take this outside force that is more of a traditional horror idea of bad people and play off of it," Bertino says. "I just tried to think about what I was most frightened of, and the moments that I'm most frightened are my girlfriend waking me up in the middle of the night and saying, 'I think there's someone in the living room.' So the whole idea came about as, 'What if you went into the living room and there was somebody there?' "

    Bertino had submitted the script for a Nicholl Fellowship, a $30,000 prize awarded to unproduced writers by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "The Strangers" got knocked out in the quarterfinals, but Bertino landed a manager and a meeting with Vertigo Entertainment, whose film "The Grudge" had just opened to $39 million. The sit-down was encouraging enough for him to take the risk and quit his job, and within a few days he sold the script to Universal for low six figures against mid-six figures if the film was made. "It was enough that I didn't have to work as a grip anymore," Bertino says.

    His good fortune grew when music video auteur Mark Romanek, writer-director of the dark drama "One Hour Photo," refused to make the film for less than $40 million. (He insisted on building the neighborhood on a soundstage that he could control so he wouldn't have to resort to computer-generated cold-weather breath.) So the studio offered the novice screenwriter the gig instead. Bertino will have to fit his directorial debut into a packed schedule that includes writing the sharp, genre-blending horror scripts he owes Hollywood mega-producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Scott Rudin.

    To celebrate, Bertino purchased his first suit and a TV.
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  • Jacob

    1 year ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangers

    This is all the info that I could find about it.
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  • Tim

    1 year ago

    Well the Texas Chainshaw massacre is family that is based from one person Ed Gein who toby hooper was told about when he was a child look him up and you will see that the events are pretty close in the Chainshaw massacre they just used all his personalities as different people.
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  • Jacob

    1 year ago

    Ed Gein was a sick dude... a sad story really... but still sick.
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  • Jen P.

    1 year ago

    I saw the trailer last night online and seen it was based on 'real events'. i have to admit i was totally siked to see it. but now i find out that there isnt any hardcore proof that these murders did happen its like, blah. I mean they are right when they say that "based on" movies are more creepy and better for business, but thats kinda using the viewer to me. i ean im sure its going to be another great horror movie, and i still plan on seeing it. buut i dont think tis fair for the movie maker to play with our emotions and bascially give us false advertising just to sell a movie. In my opinion, now that its getting out, that there isnt really a true story, more people are going to be less inclined to see it because they know it was false. great tomake movies, bad to lie.
    But like i said, i still wanna see it just because the movie looks great, besides what the makers tried to pull.
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  • jesse

    1 year ago

    i dont think they could release a movie with all the exact same information as in reality. ie: the names and address. if anything this movie would be based on the manson family murders or something. just like texas chainsaw was loosely based on ed gein wearing skin and whatnot.

    still pumped to see this tho!
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  • Rosanne

    1 year ago

    This story appears to be based on the Keddie Murders which are still unsolved. This is the closest it comes. The Manson murders were solved and are on the net.
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  • Barney

    1 year ago

    "Based on a true story" generally means, loosely based on something similar, but not really related, but could be, maybe somewhere. It's an old Hollywood trick, and it works, look how much effort people are putting into finding out more about the events. I think the real draw is the fact that this could actually happen to any of us. There's no scary ghost or evil bigfoot coming to get you. It's actual people, albeit crazy people, but you never know, they might just be in your town.
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  • ilovetang

    1 year ago

    Concur with Barney.
    Most movies that have the "based on a true story" caption always end up being very loosely based on a similar event.
    This movie most resembles the Keddie murders.
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  • Joann

    1 year ago

    Am I missing something or what? I don't recall seeing or hearing anywhere that this movie was about a murder. I know that it says they force themselves to go beyond what they thought possible to live. I don't remember seeing that it says they were murdered.
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  • derrick

    1 year ago

    This is shit man!!!!!!!
    This Movie is gonna make me crap my self.


    THE STRANGERS!!!!!!!OMG OMG FREAKING IM GONNA DO SUICIDE MAN.
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  • derrick

    1 year ago

    This is scary shit man!!!!!!!
    This Movie is gonna make me crap my self.


    THE STRANGERS!!!!!!!

    Im sleeping with my parents Through on out.
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  • Casey

    1 year ago

    Based and Inspired are two different words. Inspired means he read a story about some strangers breaking in and created the story. Based means it actually happened that way and they changed the names, address, small facts, etc. I was told it was 'inpsired' by the Hollywood Mansion Murders.
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  • Moe Smarty

    1 year ago

    This event really did take place. One of the real assailant's name is "Jason Panders". The event took place in a rural Pennsylvania Town called as Dawntown, PA. Three masked assailants stormed into a cabin and smeared feta cheese all over the couple while a goat wearing a tuxedo attacked the victims. They then attacked the acordian player at shady maple (John Collins) and stole all of the Amish food.
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  • The Goat

    1 year ago

    Party's Over!!!!
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  • chatteringmagpie1

    1 year ago

    Movies like this are almost always cut and paste projects born from an idea or fear and then expanded by adding aspects from multiple,different crimes and perpetrators. 'The Strangers' probably contains 'true' aspects from The Hollywood Mansion Murders committed by the Manson Family (the shot of Liv Tyler crawling across the floor is a famous detail from the Manson murders and 'Hoyt' was the name of the prosecution's key witness against Charlie and his cult), details from 'In Cold Blood', The Keddie Murders, or virtually any other home invasion/homicide that was spectacular enough to make the media. I personally can vaguely recall a crime in New England a couple of years ago where a doctor's wife and three daughters were all murdered during a home invasion while he was bound and beaten. It doesn't matter if 'The Strangers' is a 'true' story or not. The truly frightening part is not whether the details of this movie are true, complete and part of one individual crime but that these crimes happen and they CAN HAPPEN to ANYONE. Horror movie goers, remember these two things:1.Nothing is truly original, psychos have never done anything to anyone in the movies that they haven't done to somebody in real life. 2.It very well could happen to you.
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  • Kemp Everist

    1 year ago

    Hey I think I may have the story look up this in your search "12725 Frontage Road" it is from a murder of three people in 2005 that is errie familar with the timeline in the movie previews.
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  • Merri B.

    1 year ago

    Ok folks...either the producers/directors of this movie are privy to a murder we know nothing about (which makes no sense) or they are lying and using this tactic to get movie viewers. However! I have found 3 unsolved couple murders online that I felt were interesting. Here are the links:
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/06/early...
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/son-finds-b...
    http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?st...

    I'm sure all the names, dates and locations have been changed to protect the innocent.
    What do you think of the links?
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  • Merri B.

    1 year ago

    JoAnn is right. Duh...they never said the actual couple were murdered. Geez...how did I miss that one?
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  • Moe Smarty

    1 year ago

    Jason Panders is the real villan here. He rubs his arms when he gets ready to kill. He then puts a sack on his head and hangs out on the corner of 2nd and muzzarella eating a cheesesteak, water ice, and throwing macaroni and gravy at any county kid who walks by. Jason Panders is a tree hugging menace to society. He needs to be dunked in a feta cheese barrel and have the lid shut on him. However, frank from fitzgerald street and Jason have been friends for years. Figures.
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  • Allie

    1 year ago

    okay let me just say that i live in the city where it was filmed and now it creeps me out to be home alone!i am scared that it took place in sc if it did than im not living here anymore!someone please help me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Jamie

    1 year ago

    You have to understand that the term based true events could mean just about anything. Any home invasion where
    someone was tortured, killed, terrorized, or even looked at wrong.

    If I wrote a movie about aliens flying their spaceship into a skyscraper I could say it was based on true events. It's the word "based" you need to be wary of.
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  • nrenne

    1 year ago

    I just got home from seeing the movie. Based on or inspired by actual events...who cares. The movie was good. I found it to be quite sad. Anywho, it was worth seeing. I just figure no one is ever gonna know weather this is factual or not. So many people are trying to research it and are coming up with nothing. Just go see the movie :)
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  • Amanda

    1 year ago

    this movie wasn't scary .. it was actually really funny. and it just kept dragging on. save your money, this movie isn't worth it.
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  • Trevor

    1 year ago

    thx for the updates with reviews. i highly suggest joining www.iheartmovies.org and submiting your reviews and ratings there for the movie.
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  • gabriela

    1 year ago

    i just finished seeing this movie. i do not think its based off of true events, just my opinion,you cant find information about the hoyt family or mckay family at all.. but still a good movie. didnt explain much. but was still good..
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  • connor

    1 year ago

    ok, u guys r retarded. they said that the blair witch project was true but no it wasnt. so ur actually gonna believe that they based it on real events. no. ill tell u th 1 word that made it like that HOLLYWOOD!!!!!! it is not true.
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  • connor

    1 year ago

    i saw the movie last night. it was very good and very scary but i still don't believe that it is true. just watch and the guy named james hoyt will be on a steak n' shake commercial.
    (that is supposedly the name of the real person who is murdered). thats what happened to the blair witch project and it will happen again.
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  • Madison

    1 year ago

    My friend Bridget and I saw the movie last night, and when we saw that it said that it was based on true events it totally creeped us out knowing that that really happened.
    Then today we decided to find out more about the murder case because the movie was VERY confusing. We googled everything and searched for any type of pictures, we found nothing.
    Now the movie doesnt seem as good because they just made it up, and possibly loosely based on something that wasnt exactly happened.
    But, we do hope another one comes out to explain the first movie better.
    =]
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  • millz

    1 year ago

    I DID SOME RESEARCH MYSELF AND I'M HAPPILY SURPRISED THAT I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO IS INTRIGUED BY TRUE EVENTS. I GOOGLED JAMES HOYT, AND CAME UP WITHA KEVIN JAMES HOYT WHO DIED ON 7-12-07, THERE IS A PAGE AND TRIBUTE TO HIM BY HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY BUT THERE'S NO INFO ON HOW HE DIED OR ON KRISTEN. THE PAGE SAYS HE WAS MARRIED, WITH CHILDREN, TO A LINDA.... ANY INFO LET US KNOW!!!
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  • MIKE

    1 year ago

    THIS MOVIE IS BASED ON THE "KEDDIE RANCH" MURDERS, GOOGLE IT. IT WAS ALSO DERIVED FROM THE DIRECTORS TRUE HAPPENINGS AT A CABIN HE STAYED AT WHEN HE WAS A KID(EXCLUDING ANY KIND OF MURDER... HE WASD JUST ROBBED). THE TRUE EVENTS ARE ABOUT UNSOLVED MURDERS BACK IN 1981 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. I AM A BIG FAN OF TRUE STORIES TURN INTO MOVIES, BUT THIS MOVIE FALLS SHORT VERSUS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. IT IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SUPPOSED TRUE STORY OF "WOLF CREEK".
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  • Shelby

    1 year ago

    hey guys! i'm not trying to sound like a smart ass. but i seen the movie, i didn't think it was confusingg. i think MIKE is right, it's based on the keddie murders, it's the exact same story line, i read on the website that the writer admitted to taking from different events such as the manson murders another murder. but the keddie murder was the most. i loved the movie! i'm actually scared to go to bed tonight. but i just wanted to tell you what i read learned..
    that movie was scary as hell though!
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  • ChicagoKid

    1 year ago

    This movie was so unbelievable and not the least bit scary. It is easily the worst script made into a movie in decades. Disturbia is a hundred times better and scarier. Towards the end, even though the movie is short, you find yourself wanting them to kill the woman for being so incredibly stupid.
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  • pinkfreak

    10 months ago

    After seeing the trailer, i decided to google it and came up with the same results, i have yet to see the actual movie, although i want to. I'm more interested to know if the lady - Kristen is it? - did she die or survive? I mean in real life not the movie.
    I think she must have for this story to come out, she either survived long enough to tell the story and then died, or she lived anyway. How else would anyone know what happened?
    I like movies that are based on true events, its important that people know the truth - even if they don't want to.
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  • WHOOPSTA

    8 months ago

    I WATCHED THE MOVIE AND THEN HIT THE NET TO SEE THE REAL STORY. I AM STILL LOOKING. IN THE FILM THE ONLY POINTS THAT INVOLVED OTHER PEOPLE WERE WHEN JAMES WENT TO GET CIGS FOR KRISTEN, WHEN KRISTEN GOT TO THE BARN WITH THE RADIO, WHEN HIS FRIEND OR BRO CAME TO PICK HIM UP.
    THERE SHOULD BE A MISSING REPORT OR SOMETHING ON HIM AND IF YOU HEAR SOMEONE SAY HELP ME AT THE END OF A RADIO YOU WOULD WANT TO FIND OUT WHERE IT WAS COMING FROM.
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  • Rach

    8 months ago

    This was taken from Wikipedia

    According to production notes,[2] the film was inspired by an event from director Bryan Bertino's childhood: a stranger came to his home asking for someone who was not there, and Bertino later found out that empty homes in the neighborhood had been broken into that night.[3] In interviews, Bertino stated he was "very impressed" with some of the theories circulating on the Internet about the "true events" the movie is allegedly based on, but said his main inspiration was Helter Skelter, a true crime book about the 1969 Manson family murders.[4][5]

    In another interview, Liv Tyler revealed that in Bertino's original script, "You saw a lot more of the strangers. It was much more of a Manson-esque experience."[3]

    ^ Production Information. "The Strangers: Movie production notes". Retrieved on 2008-08-20.
    ^ a b Angela Dawson (2008-05-28). "Liv in the moment". Entertainment News Wire. AZCentral. Retrieved on 2008-07-01.
    ^ Ryan Rotten (2007-08-01). "EXCL: Never Talk to Strangers". ShockTillYouDrop.com. Retrieved on 2008-08-20.
    ^ Ryan Rotten (2008-05-26). "Interview: The Strangers' Bryan Bertino (Pt. 2)". ShockTillYouDrop.com. Retrieved on 2008-08-20.
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  • Laura

    8 months ago

    I know theses event are somewhat true because in a movie like that your not allound to say it`s true and it`s not true you can`t do that.....but a murder that did happen like this is cabin 28 type that up and see what you find out. ( dusturbing)
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  • angie

    8 months ago

    According to production notes,[2] the film was inspired by an event from director Bryan Bertino's childhood: a stranger came to his home asking for someone who was not there, and Bertino later found out that empty homes in the neighborhood had been broken into that night.[3] In interviews, Bertino stated he was "very impressed" with some of the theories circulating on the Internet about the "true events" the movie is allegedly based on, but said his main inspiration was Helter Skelter, a true crime book about the 1969 Manson family murders.[4][5]

    In another interview, Liv Tyler revealed that in Bertino's original script, "You saw a lot more of the strangers. It was much more of a Manson-esque experience.



    basically it was based on his childhood and the manson family
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  • Jeana

    2 months ago

    So bottom line is the murders never took place..."inspired by true events" is pretty much a half truth.The knock on the door of Bertino's childhood home I guess is the event that led him to imagine the possibilities. So yes watching and thinking that the true events was the terror that happened to this young couple made it seem so much more terrifying.It was still a good movie,My disappointment is that I was determined to read about the real victims and they do not exist! Great marketing work Bertino.
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