Horror movies have a way of crawling under your skin, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
But some haunting on-screen stories are truly chilling because their plots were inspired by disturbing true events, eerie coincidences, and inexplicable mysteries.
From the 2010s’ The Conjuring franchise to the 1980s classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, these 20 horror films prove that sometimes the scariest stories aren’t imagined, they’re relived.
