DON'T WATCH MOVIES FROM HOLLYWOOD THERE SATANIC PART 1 HORROR MOVIES.
DON'T WATCH MOVIES FROM HOLLYWOOD
THERE SATANIC PART 1 HORROR
MOVIES.
Movies from hollywood are
satanic, please don't watch them. We Bible believing Christians
need to set an example. Hollywood
should be called hellywood. They know that the catching
away of the Body of Christ will happen
and they are preparing the masses for it. I strongly urge
you all not to watch movies from
hollywood, I mean hellywood. They even change things in
movies that are based or inspired by
true events. The horror movies that heyllwood makes
support the following and it is a fair
sized list. I will also include lots of scripture and the final
part will be true crimes inspired by
heyllwood's horror flims. There are some of us that don't watch
movies from hellywood at the theaters,
please don't watch them at all.
PART ONE THE LIST
1= satanic practices
2= satanic rituals
3= violence
4= murder
5= rape
6= theft
7= sex before marriage
8= cussing
9= taking the Lord's name in vain
10= mocking God
11= making fun of God
12= have influence many crimes to be
committed
13= adultery
14= covet
15= suicide
16= graven images
17= demonic possession
18= demons possessing as dead people
19= sex with demons
20= sex with underage females
21= pedophilia
22= breaking into homes and business
ect
23= mass killings
24= vandalism
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25= breaking the law
26= sex with whores
27= doing drugs
28= drinking alcohol
29= getting drunk
30= child trafficking
31= white sex trade
32= sex with inanimate objects
33= masterbastion
34= speeding
35= necrophila
36= incest
37= lust
38= homosexual lifestyle
39= transgenders
40= bi-sexual
41= sex with aliens [demons]
42= nudity
43= divination
44= assault
45= gluttony
46= vanity
47= torture
48= obsession
49= idols
50= kidnapping
51= revilers
52= extortioners
53= false religons
54= satanic worship
55= canablism
56= lazy
57= greed
58= evolution
59= porn
60= eating meat with blood
61= lies
62= deceitful
63= corrupt conversation
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64= conversation with deceitful lust
65= causing the child of God to sin
66= evil thoughts
67= evil imagination
68= continued to be angry
69= encouraging people to do wickedness
70= mocking the resurrection
71= not honoring father and mother
72= false witness
73= witchcraft
74= beastallity
75= material possession
PART TWO SCRIPTURES
“9 Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with mankind,
10
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 CORINTHIANS
6:9-10 KJV
“3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is
in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth: 5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I
the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me; 6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep
my commandments. 7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the
LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
EXODUS 20:3-7 KJV
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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13
Thou shalt not kill. 14
Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15
Thou shalt not steal. 16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor
his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.”
EXODUS 20:8-17 KJV
“2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred
and twenty years. 4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and
they bare children to them, the same became mighty
men which were of old, men of renown. 5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually. 6
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and
it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
“
GENESIS 6:2-7 KJV
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“28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to
lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
“ MATTHEW 5:28 KJV
“27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working
that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence
of their error which was meet.” ROMANS 1:27 KJV
“7 What shall we say then? Is
the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law:
for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not
covet. “ ROMANS 7:7 KJV
“6 Now these things were our
examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they
also lusted. “ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:6 KJV
“4 Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is
in the world through lust. “
2 PETER 1:4 KJV
“10 But chiefly them that walk after
the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to
speak evil of dignities.”
2 PETER 2:10 KJV
“16 For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.” 1 JOHN 2:16
KJV
“17 And the world passeth away, and
the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for
ever.” 1 JOHN 2:17 KJV
“15 Then when lust hath conceived, it
bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
death.” JAMES 1:15 KJV
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“2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill,
and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have
not, because ye ask not. “ JAMES 4:2 KJV
“10 There shall not be found among
you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass
through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, “
DEUTERONOMY 18:10 KJV
“17 And they caused their sons and
their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and
enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger.”
2 KINGS 17:17 KJV
“14 Then the LORD said unto me, The
prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I
commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a
false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of
their heart.” JEREMIAH 14:14 KJV
“24 For there shall be no more any
vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.”
EZEKIEL 12:24 KJV
“6 They have seen vanity and lying
divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them:
and they have made others to hope that they would confirm
the word.” EZEKIEL 13:6 KJV
“7 Have ye not seen a vain vision,
and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD
saith it; albeit I have not spoken?” EZEKIEL 13:7 KJV
“6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak
leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. “
PSALMS 5:6 KJV
“1 Judge me, O God, and plead my
cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and
unjust man. “ PSALMS 43:1 KJV
“4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O
thou deceitful tongue. “ PSALMS 54:4 KJV
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“23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them
down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not
live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. “ PSALMS 55:23
KJV
“ 13For such are false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of
Christ. “ 2 CORINTHIANS 11:13 KJV
“22 That ye put off
concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts; “ EPHESIANS 4:22 KJV
“38 For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come, “ ROMANS 8:38 KJV
“25 But if a man find a betrothed
damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then
the man only that lay with her shall die:
26
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in
the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth
against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this
matter: 27
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel
cried, and there was none to save her. 28
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not
betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;”
DEUTERONOMY 22:25-28 KJV
“12 For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in
high places. “
EPHESIANS 6:12 KJV
“16 For by him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for
him: “COLOSSIANS 1:16 KJV
“15 And having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing
over them in it. “ COLOSSIANS 2:15 KJV
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“10 For if any man see thee which
hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the
conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things
which are offered to idols; “
1 CORINTHIANS 8:10 KJV
“22 And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon
both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of
their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw
not their father's nakedness. 24
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had
done unto him. 25
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants
shall he be unto his brethren. 26
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant. 27
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”
GENESIS 9:22-27 KJV
“6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him,
to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. “
LEVITICUS 18:6 KJV
“7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother,
shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not
uncover her nakedness. 8
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is
thy father's nakedness. 9
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or
daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born
abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 10
The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's
daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
theirs is thine own nakedness. 11
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy
father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness. 12
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she
is thy father's near kinswoman. 13
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for
she is thy mother's near kinswoman. 14
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother,
thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. 15
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she
is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 16
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is
thy brother's nakedness.”
LEVITICUS 18:7-16 KJV
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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter,
neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are
her near kinswomen: it is wickedness. 18
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her,
to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. 19
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her
nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.”
LEVITICUS 18:17-19 KJV
“11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered
his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon them. “ LEVITICUS 20:11 KJV
“17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter,
or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off
in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's
nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 18
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and
shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she
hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be
cut off from among their people. 19
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister,
nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they
shall bear their iniquity. 20
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered
his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
childless. 21
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an
unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall
be childless.” LEVITICUS 20:17-21 KJV
“19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.”
EXODUS 22:19 KJV
“13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put
to death; their blood shall be upon them. “
LEVITICUS 20:13 KJV
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“20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife;
because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall
say, Amen. 21
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And
all the people shall say, Amen. 22
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of
his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall
say, Amen. 23
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all
the people shall say, Amen.”
DEUTERONOMY 27:20-23 KJV
“18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own
body. “ 1 CORINTHIANS 6:18 KJV
“5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person,
nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God. “ EPHESIANS 5:5 KJV
“19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, 21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
God.”
GALATIANS 5:19 KJV
“22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination. “ LEVITICUS 18:22 KJV
“20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth
the man. 21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, 22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
MARK 7:20-23 KJV
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“8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. “ COLOSSIANS 3:8
KJV
“29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace
unto the hearers. “ EPHESIANS 4:29 KJV
“13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. “
PROVERBS 8:13 KJV
“21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and
they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. “
PROVERBS 18:21 KJV
“6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe
in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that
offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 8
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and
cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into
life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be
cast into everlasting fire. 9
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye,
rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”
MATTHEW18:6-9 KJV
“17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. “ 1
CORINTHIANS 3:17 KJV
“9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
destruction and perdition. 10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.” 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 KJV
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“24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
MATTHEW 6:24 KJV
“2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. “ ROMANS 12:2 KJV
“30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain:
but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be
praised. “
PROVERBS 31:30 KJV
“37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and
quicken thou me in thy way.”
PSALMS 119:37 KJV
“19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their
belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind
earthly things.) “ PHILIPPIANS 3:19 KJV
“21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.” PROVERBS
23:21 KJV
“10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into
all the winds. “
EZEKIEL 5:10 KJV
“15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be
not consumed one of another. “
GALATIANS 5:15 KJV
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“29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood,
and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye
keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. “ ACTS 15:29 KJV
“4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat. “ GENESIS 9:4 KJV
“1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils; 2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a
hot iron; 3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from
meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of
them which believe and know the truth. 4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be
refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:”
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-5 KJV
“17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your
generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat
nor blood. “ LEVITICUS 3:17 KJV
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PART
THREE REAL CRIMES INSPIRED BY HORROR MOVIES
1= Natural Born Killers has
inspired some of the most gruesome copycat killings in history. The
film has been associated with several serial killers, including the
homicidal couple Sarah Edmonson and Benjamin Darras. In 1995, the
murderous duo dropped LSD and watched Natural Born Killers
repeatedly before going on a drug-fueled crime spree of robbing and
shooting a convenience store clerk that left her a quadriplegic.
During the crime spree, Darras shot and killed a Mississippi
businessman. Edmonson was sentenced to 35 years in prison and Darras
is doing life.
2= Wes Craven’s slasher movie series
Scream was the inspiration behind the murder of Gina Castillo
by her 16-year-old son and his 15-year-old cousin, Samuel Ramirez.
The two teenagers confessed to the gruesome murder of Castillo and
admitted that they did it because they needed money to fund a murder
spree that would reenact the story line of the first two Hollywood
Scream movies. In order to follow the Scream story
line, the teenage boys planned to buy the ghost-face mask and
electronic voice boxes that are seen in the movie.
3= Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork
Orange has been the inspiration for many twisted real-life
crimes, specifically throughout Britain. The crimes have exhibited
similarities with the film, but one of the most bizarre cases
involved a man named John Ricketts who was dressed up as a droog from
A Clockwork Orange and assaulted a woman dressed as Little
Britain‘s Vicky Pollard at an office party. The violent movie
was banned from UK cinemas because of the increase in violent crimes
following its release.
4= In 2002, Allan Menzies murdered his
longtime friend, Thomas McKendrick, because he claimed a character in
the vampire movie, Queen of the Damned, told him to do it and
promised to make him a vampire in the next life. After watching the
film about 100 times and receiving a visit from the female vampire
Akasha in the middle of the night, he decided to murder people.
Menzies also believed that McKendrick and another friend were
plotting to kill him, but he turned on McKendrick first. Menzies
stabbed his friend to death, drank his blood, and ate part of his
head before burying him in a shallow grave. The “vampire killer”
was later found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide.
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5= Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
were 10 years old when they kidnapped and brutally murdered
two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. In 1993, Thompson and
Venables snatched the toddler from a shopping mall and took him to a
railway line where they beat and sexually assaulted the young boy.
They left Bulger’s mutilated body on the railway tracks to die.
Thompson and Venables were supposedly inspired by the horror film
Child’s Play 3. The killer doll movies caused a great deal
of controversy in the United Kingdom, as well as a public outcry for
tightening “video nasties.”
6= In 2004, Michael Hernandez, 14,
stabbed his middle school classmate to death and admitted to modeling
his behavior after the serial killers in American Psycho and
The Silence of the Lambs. The South Florida teen said he
identified with the horror movie murderers and wanted to act out
their roles in his real-life plan to become a serial killer.
Hernandez believed God gave him special powers and agreed with his
decision to kill his classmate. The teen boy was found guilty of
first-degree murder in 2008.
7= The famous ’80s horror film,
Nightmare on Elm Street, was the inspiration for Daniel
Gonzalez’s killing spree. In 2004, the paranoid schizophrenic went
on a drug-fueled rampage and murdered four random people, including a
doctor and his wife. Gonzalez armed himself with several knives and
acted out a Freddy Krueger-like spree. Official reports claimed that
Gonzalez did not receive proper treatment for his mental condition.
He was given six life sentences for the four murders, as well as two
attempted murders throughout England. In 2007, Gonzalez committed
suicide in his cell.
8= The Saw horror movie series
was the inspiration behind a cruel prank that turned into a serious
matter for two teenage girls in Winchester, Tenn. The teenagers used
the Saw plot of making victims play games to stay alive by
leaving a gruesome message on 52-year-old Beverly Dickson’s phone.
They told Dickson that one of her friends was hidden in her house and
it would be filled with toxic gas shortly. They asked if she wanted
to live or die. Dickson got the message while attending a funeral and
suffered a stroke from the frightening incident. The two 13-year-olds
responsible for the prank call were charged with phone harassment.
The issue of copycat crimes inspired by cinema is an ongoing one
that has been with us for decades and it doesn’t look as if it
will go away any time soon. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for an
individual to see an act take place in a film and to then emulate it
in real life. Filmmakers don’t set out to make films that are
going to inspire people to commit awful and atrocious acts, but do
they have a moral responsibility to their audience?
Copycat crimes relating to a particular film will usually damage
the film heavily. The most obvious example of this is A Clockwork
Orange, which was pulled from distribution in the UK after the film
began to get heavily misinterpreted and crimes based on acts that
took place in the happened at a scary frequency. Sometimes, it is
just the case of mentally unstable individuals seeing a particular
film and acting upon a random event they see in it, but filmmakers
do have a moral responsibility to their audience, particularly in
the case of portraying violence as there is a fine line between
examining violent behaviour and glamourising violence.
The issue of copycat crimes inspired by cinema is an ongoing one
that has been with us for decades and…
The issue of copycat crimes inspired by cinema is an ongoing one
that has been with us for decades and it doesn’t look as if it
will go away any time soon. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for an
individual to see an act take place in a film and to then emulate it
in real life. Filmmakers don’t set out to make films that are
going to inspire people to commit awful and atrocious acts, but do
they have a moral responsibility to their audience?
Copycat crimes relating to a particular film will usually damage
the film heavily. The most obvious example of this is A Clockwork
Orange, which was pulled from distribution in the UK after the film
began to get heavily misinterpreted and crimes based on acts that
took place in the happened at a scary frequency. Sometimes, it is
just the case of mentally unstable individuals seeing a particular
film and acting upon a random event they see in it, but filmmakers
do have a moral responsibility to their audience, particularly in
the case of portraying violence as there is a fine line between
examining violent behaviour and glamourising violence.
9= Ben Affleck’s Boston set crime thriller features a number of
scintillating set pieces, most notably when he and his criminal crew
dress up as nuns, and wielding some heavy firepower rob a bank for
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because it’s the movies, robbing
a bank is made to look cleaner, easier and more lucrative than it
actually is, but that didn’t stop a couple from Illinois from
attempting to emulate Affleck and co…
10= David Fincher’s fearsome
adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s insanely popular novel has spurred
people to set up ‘fight clubs’ of their own, with many being
founded across America. Fight Club also seemed to inspire a large
number of teenagers to set up their own forms of fight club at school
and have fights on the grounds, but these were quickly suppressed by
the authorities.
On the more dangerous side of things, a lot of people were
inspired by the anti-capitalist message of the film and went about
imitating the acts of Tyler Durden. One such imitator was Kyle Shaw
who set off a homemade bomb created from fireworks and set it off
outside a Starbucks, an infamous symbol of corporate America. Shaw
was said to be planning his own Project Mayhem, the group set up in
the film by Tyler Durden to bring down corporate America. Shaw
plotted to mimic the events of the film and was a noted obsessive fan
of both the book and film, making the association clear.
11= the early 90’s movie, The Program, the main character lies
down in the middle of a busy freeway as an act of bravado and to
demonstrate just how ‘manly’ he is. As there always seems to be,
some idiots decided to emulate his behaviour in a grand act of
stupidity. One such account featured a young man convincing his
friend that it was a good idea for the two of them to dress in dark
clothes and go and lie at night on a busy Philadelphia highway.
As expected, this didn’t end well as they were both hit by a
truck that didn’t see them. One of them was lucky to escape with
his life, the other not so much and similar incidents were reported
nationwide in the aftermath of the release of the movie. Police chief
George Moyer sums their actions up accordingly: “In the movies, you
jump out of a window and walk away, but in real life, we pick up the
pieces.”
12= A drain cleaning agent is something supposed to be poured
down a drain. It saves many hours of hard, labouring work on your
hands and knees and is a useful household tool. However, when poured
down a human being’s throat, the results are quite different. This
is exactly what Clint Eastwood does in Magnum Force and what follows
looks expectedly painful and distressing. As a result of seeing
Magnum Force, William Andrews and Dale Selby Pierre wanted to use the
method during an armed robbery of a hi-fi store in Utah. The Hi-Fi
murders are particularly vile and the use of the drain agent did not
work like it did in the movie where Margaret Avery’s prostitute
dies instantly. Three people died as a result of Andrews and Pierre’s
action and they were both eventually a victim to capitol punishment.
13= The Deer Hunter was a war drama that was released in
the late 1970s. It also happens to ironically be the first movie in
this list to feature Robert
DeNiro. The controversy surrounding this movie was mentioned in
Suicidal Movies: Social Patterns 1900-2009. According to
that book, The Deer Hunter inspired acts of suicide even 25
years after it was first released. The book claims that 46 cases of
suicide that occurred over a seven-year period can be linked to the
Russian Roulette scenes that are depicted in The Deer Hunter.
The Deer Hunter has, for what it’s worth, been widely
praised by critics since its release.
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14= There are multiple parts of this crime, one inspired by a
film, that are downright disturbing. Daniel Sterling and his
girlfriend Lisa Stellwagen watched Interview With The Vampire
on November 17, 1994. Stellwagen then, according to a story produced
by the New
York Times, awoke to find her boyfriend staring at her. Sterling,
to his credit, was honest, saying the following to his lover: “I’m
going to kill you and drink your blood.” That is exactly what he
attempted to do, but Stellwagen survived the multiple stab wounds.
One cannot see into the future, sure, but she probably should not
have dismissed Sterling’s words as being some weird form of “pillow
talk.”
15= There are some cases where it is mere speculation that a group
of crimes was inspired by horror films. That was not the case with
Daniel Gonzalez. It was accepted as fact that Gonzalez, a
schizophrenic
murderer who killed four people, was deeply and disturbingly
impacted by movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street
and Friday the 13th. It was later learned that the killings
may have been prevented had Gonzalez received proper treatment for
his mental condition. Gonzalez was given multiple life sentences for
the killings, but he took his own life in 2007.
16= Michael Myers seems to strike a special chord among serial
killers because there have been a handful of murders inspired by this
madman. Dating all the way back to 1981 with murders inspired by
'Halloween II'.
Richard Boyer was convicted of murder and robbery and
sentenced to death in 1984 in the killings of Aileen Harbitz, 68, who
had been stabbed 19 times, and her husband, Francis, 67, who had been
stabbed 24 times.
The case was dubbed the "Halloween II"
murders because Boyer, while admitting the crime, blamed his actions
on a drug-induced flashback to a stabbing scene in the horror movie.
Source - Los Angeles Times
The next big case inspired by Mike was back in 2007 for murders
inspired Rob Zombie's remake of the original classic 'Halloween'.
"I started watching Rob Zombie's ‘Halloween.’
In the movie a 12-year-old boy murders his stepfather, sister, and
his sister's boyfriend. It was the third time this week that I
watched it," Jake Evans, 17, wrote in a 4-page confession Oct.
4, the day after the killings.
"While watching it I was amazed at how at ease
the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had
afterward. I was thinking to myself, it would be the same for me when
I kill someone," Source - Daily News
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While the motives of accused Colorado shooter James Holmes
remain a mystery, the tragedy that happened at a midnight
screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo.
will always bring to mind Batman.
The 24-year-old said "I am the Joker" when arrested
by police early Friday morning, and the massacre that went down
inside the Century 16 theater has parallels to more than one
scene from Frank Miller's 1986 Batman comic book series, "The
Dark Knight Returns."
'Dark
Knight Rises' Director Calls Shooting a 'Senseless Tragedy'
In that comic-book series, the Joker murders a television
studio audience by deploying "smile gas." Holmes began
his massacre by setting off smoke bombs in the theater. The
series also features Arnold Crimp, a disturbed man who just lost
his job, pulling out a handgun in an adult film theater and
killing three people.
Holmes also booby-trapped his apartment, a favorite technique
of the Joker.
It's not the first time a real life crime has mimicked one
featured in a fictional show or film.
18= The first film in the "Twilight"
saga made teens go gaga for stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen
Stewart. It was also blamed for driving one Iowa teen batty.
After a 13-year-old girl was bitten by a male classmate, a vice
principal at their school investigated and learned that the boy had
bitten 10 others in one month. When contacted, the boy's father said
that it was his son's love of the "Twilight" film that made
him bite his fellow students, according to the Des
Moines Register. The Register said the boy was referred to
juvenile corrections.
19= Showtime's hit drama about a serial killer has been mentioned
in at least one real life murder. In 2009, 17-year-old Andrew Conley
strangled his 10-year-old brother Conner with his bare hands.
"The fact is, he has said on numerous occasions he had
fantasized about killing people," prosecutor Aaron Negangard
told "20/20"
in 2011. "He told us he was reading books about it—on serial
killers. He was watching 'Dexter.'"
In fact, an hour into his first interrogation by police, Conley
said, "I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's called
'Dexter,' and it's on Showtime. And I feel like him because he's a
serial killer of bad people ... but I just feel like him."
Even a life sentence in prison didn't stop Conley's fascination
with "Dexter." In a prison video obtained by "20/20"
that recorded the visit of a family friend, Conley asks about the
show's most recent plot developments, peppering the friend with
questions and comments such as "Whoa, and did Dexter kill
Trinity?" and "So Dexter got arrested? Dang. That's cool."
“3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” EXODUS 20:3-7 KJV
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"8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.”
EXODUS 20:8-17 KJV
“2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. “
GENESIS 6:2-7 KJV
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“28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. “ MATTHEW 5:28 KJV
“27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” ROMANS 1:27 KJV
27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;” DEUTERONOMY 22:25-28 KJV
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”
GENESIS 9:22-27 KJV
“6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. “ LEVITICUS 18:6 KJV
“7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.”
LEVITICUS 18:7-16 KJV
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"17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.” LEVITICUS 18:17-19 KJV
“11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. “ LEVITICUS 20:11 KJV
“17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.” LEVITICUS 20:17-21 KJV
“19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.” EXODUS 22:19 KJV
“13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. “
LEVITICUS 20:13 KJV
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“20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.”
DEUTERONOMY 27:20-23 KJV
“18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. “ 1 CORINTHIANS 6:18 KJV
“5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. “ EPHESIANS 5:5 KJV
“19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
GALATIANS 5:19 KJV
“22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. “ LEVITICUS 18:22 KJV
“20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” MARK 7:20-23 KJV
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“8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. “ COLOSSIANS 3:8 KJV
“29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. “ EPHESIANS 4:29 KJV
“13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. “ PROVERBS 8:13 KJV
“21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. “
PROVERBS 18:21 KJV
“6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” MATTHEW18:6-9 KJV
“17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. “ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:17 KJV
“9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10 KJV
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“24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
MATTHEW 6:24 KJV
“2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. “ ROMANS 12:2 KJV
“30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. “
PROVERBS 31:30 KJV
“37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.”
PSALMS 119:37 KJV
“19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) “ PHILIPPIANS 3:19 KJV
“21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.” PROVERBS 23:21 KJV
“10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. “
EZEKIEL 5:10 KJV
“15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. “
GALATIANS 5:15 KJV
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“29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. “ ACTS 15:29 KJV
“4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. “ GENESIS 9:4 KJV
“1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:”
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-5 KJV
“17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. “ LEVITICUS 3:17 KJV
The issue of copycat crimes inspired by cinema is an ongoing one that has been with us for decades and it doesn’t look as if it will go away any time soon. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for an individual to see an act take place in a film and to then emulate it in real life. Filmmakers don’t set out to make films that are going to inspire people to commit awful and atrocious acts, but do they have a moral responsibility to their audience?
Copycat crimes relating to a particular film will usually damage the film heavily. The most obvious example of this is A Clockwork Orange, which was pulled from distribution in the UK after the film began to get heavily misinterpreted and crimes based on acts that took place in the happened at a scary frequency. Sometimes, it is just the case of mentally unstable individuals seeing a particular film and acting upon a random event they see in it, but filmmakers do have a moral responsibility to their audience, particularly in the case of portraying violence as there is a fine line between examining violent behaviour and glamourising violence.
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The issue of copycat crimes inspired by cinema is an ongoing one that has been with us for decades and it doesn’t look as if it will go away any time soon. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for an individual to see an act take place in a film and to then emulate it in real life. Filmmakers don’t set out to make films that are going to inspire people to commit awful and atrocious acts, but do they have a moral responsibility to their audience?
Copycat crimes relating to a particular film will usually damage the film heavily. The most obvious example of this is A Clockwork Orange, which was pulled from distribution in the UK after the film began to get heavily misinterpreted and crimes based on acts that took place in the happened at a scary frequency. Sometimes, it is just the case of mentally unstable individuals seeing a particular film and acting upon a random event they see in it, but filmmakers do have a moral responsibility to their audience, particularly in the case of portraying violence as there is a fine line between examining violent behaviour and glamourising violence.
9= Ben Affleck’s Boston set crime thriller features a number of scintillating set pieces, most notably when he and his criminal crew dress up as nuns, and wielding some heavy firepower rob a bank for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because it’s the movies, robbing a bank is made to look cleaner, easier and more lucrative than it actually is, but that didn’t stop a couple from Illinois from attempting to emulate Affleck and co…Wearing nuns clothing and covering their faces with nightmarish masks like the crew in the film,
Navahcia Edwards, 25 and her fiancé stormed a Chicago bank heavily armed and walked away with over $100,000. No shots were fired during the robbery and nobody was injured or hurt, which is
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actually a pleasant surprise. The couple were eventually caught and sentenced.
11= the early 90’s movie, The Program, the main character lies down in the middle of a busy freeway as an act of bravado and to demonstrate just how ‘manly’ he is. As there always seems to be, some idiots decided to emulate his behaviour in a grand act of stupidity. One such account featured a young man convincing his friend that it was a good idea for the two of them to dress in dark clothes and go and lie at night on a busy Philadelphia highway.
As expected, this didn’t end well as they were both hit by a truck that didn’t see them. One of them was lucky to escape with his life, the other not so much and similar incidents were reported nationwide in the aftermath of the release of the movie. Police chief George Moyer sums their actions up accordingly: “In the movies, you jump out of a window and walk away, but in real life, we pick up the pieces.”
12= A drain cleaning agent is something supposed to be poured down a drain. It saves many hours of hard, labouring work on your hands and knees and is a useful household tool. However, when poured down a human being’s throat, the results are quite different. This is exactly what Clint Eastwood does in Magnum Force and what follows looks expectedly painful and distressing. As a result of seeing Magnum Force, William Andrews and Dale Selby Pierre wanted to use the method during an armed robbery of a hi-fi store in Utah. The Hi-Fi murders are particularly vile and the use of the drain agent did not work like it did in the movie where Margaret Avery’s prostitute dies instantly. Three people died as a result of Andrews and Pierre’s action and they were both eventually a victim to capitol punishment.
13= The Deer Hunter was a war drama that was released in the late 1970s. It also happens to ironically be the first movie in this list to feature Robert DeNiro. The controversy surrounding this movie was mentioned in Suicidal Movies: Social Patterns 1900-2009. According to that book, The Deer Hunter inspired acts of suicide even 25 years after it was first released. The book claims that 46 cases of suicide that occurred over a seven-year period can be linked to the Russian Roulette scenes that are depicted in The Deer Hunter. The Deer Hunter has, for what it’s worth, been widely praised by critics since its release.
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14= There are multiple parts of this crime, one inspired by a film, that are downright disturbing. Daniel Sterling and his girlfriend Lisa Stellwagen watched Interview With The Vampire on November 17, 1994. Stellwagen then, according to a story produced by the New York Times, awoke to find her boyfriend staring at her. Sterling, to his credit, was honest, saying the following to his lover: “I’m going to kill you and drink your blood.” That is exactly what he attempted to do, but Stellwagen survived the multiple stab wounds. One cannot see into the future, sure, but she probably should not have dismissed Sterling’s words as being some weird form of “pillow talk.”
15= There are some cases where it is mere speculation that a group of crimes was inspired by horror films. That was not the case with Daniel Gonzalez. It was accepted as fact that Gonzalez, a schizophrenic murderer who killed four people, was deeply and disturbingly impacted by movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. It was later learned that the killings may have been prevented had Gonzalez received proper treatment for his mental condition. Gonzalez was given multiple life sentences for the killings, but he took his own life in 2007.
16= Michael Myers seems to strike a special chord among serial killers because there have been a handful of murders inspired by this madman. Dating all the way back to 1981 with murders inspired by 'Halloween II'.
The next big case inspired by Mike was back in 2007 for murders inspired Rob Zombie's remake of the original classic 'Halloween'.
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The 24-year-old said "I am the Joker" when arrested by police early Friday morning, and the massacre that went down inside the Century 16 theater has parallels to more than one scene from Frank Miller's 1986 Batman comic book series, "The Dark Knight Returns."
'Dark Knight Rises' Director Calls Shooting a 'Senseless Tragedy'
In that comic-book series, the Joker murders a television studio audience by deploying "smile gas." Holmes began his massacre by setting off smoke bombs in the theater. The series also features Arnold Crimp, a disturbed man who just lost his job, pulling out a handgun in an adult film theater and killing three people.
Holmes also booby-trapped his apartment, a favorite technique of the Joker.
It's not the first time a real life crime has mimicked one featured in a fictional show or film.
19= Showtime's hit drama about a serial killer has been mentioned in at least one real life murder. In 2009, 17-year-old Andrew Conley strangled his 10-year-old brother Conner with his bare hands.
"The fact is, he has said on numerous occasions he had fantasized about killing people," prosecutor Aaron Negangard told "20/20" in 2011. "He told us he was reading books about it—on serial killers. He was watching 'Dexter.'"
In fact, an hour into his first interrogation by police, Conley said, "I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's called 'Dexter,' and it's on Showtime. And I feel like him because he's a serial killer of bad people ... but I just feel like him."
Even a life sentence in prison didn't stop Conley's fascination with "Dexter." In a prison video obtained by "20/20" that recorded the visit of a family friend, Conley asks about the show's most recent plot developments, peppering the friend with questions and comments such as "Whoa, and did Dexter kill Trinity?" and "So Dexter got arrested? Dang. That's cool."