Movie: Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies

Top 8 Billed Cast

Katrina Weidman
Katrina Weidman

Self - Host

Chris Holt
Chris Holt

Self - Host

Charity Winters
Charity Winters

Self - Host

John McGarry
John McGarry

Self - Host

Richard Dolan
Richard Dolan

Self - American Historian & Author

Michael Laimo
Michael Laimo

Self - Author, Dead Souls

Christopher Lutz
Christopher Lutz

Self - Amityville Eyewitness

Lucy Herrmann
Lucy Herrmann

Self - Poltergeist Witness

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    In Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies, Chiller investigates the terrifying factual stories that inspired some of the scariest horror movies of all time, including Silent Hill, The Amityville Horror, The Mothman Prophecies and Poltergeist, through exclusive eyewitness interviews and reenactments of actual events. Paranormal investigator Katrina Weidman (Paranormal State) travels with three of her friends into the dark recesses of the unknown to uncover the buried secrets behind these four iconic films. Journey down the haunted high-ways of the American East Coast on a road trip to discover the origins of our most beloved horror films made. From a grisly series of murders in the small town Amityville to a devastating, subterranean fire in the rural town of Centralia...From the eye-witness reports of the inexplicable, red-eyed creature known as Mothman to the documented paranormal activity that inspired Poltergeist...The movies may be fiction, but the fear is very, very real...

  • Release Date

    2012-03-11

  • Average

    10

  • Rating:

    5.0 starts
  • Tagline

    Real Fear

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English

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