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HORROR/THRILLER MOVIES TRIVIA - MOVIES BASED ON REAL INCIDENTS
The Snowtown Murders (2012)
This deeply disturbing film does almost too good a job of portraying the the true story of the 1999 Snowtown murders in a rural Australia town. It's hard to watch the horrific abuse and corruption of a teenager, and it's even harder to stomach the fact that this actually happened in real life.
HORROR/THRILLER MOVIES TRIVIA - MOVIES BASED ON REAL INCIDENTS
Hounds of Love (2017)
This horror film tells the story of a teen girl held hostage by a deranged couple and her efforts to escape. Based on the Birnie murders of 1986, Hounds of Love is disturbing enough to warrant a few puppy TikTok breaks while you’re watching.
HORROR/THRILLER MOVIES TRIVIA - MOVIES BASED ON REAL INCIDENTS
The Possession (2012)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick co-star as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit—and apparently, the movie's based on a real-life haunted wine cabinet box.
HORROR/THRILLER MOVIES TRIVIA - MOVIES BASED ON REAL INCIDENTS
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
This film (which is a remake of a 1976 original) follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and it's based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “phantom killer” took out five people over 10 weeks. The case remains officially unsolved.
HORROR/THRILLER MOVIES TRIVIA - MOVIES BASED ON REAL INCIDENTS
The Afflicted (2011)
Set in a household where a mother justifies horrific and unspeakable acts of abuse under the guise of religious beliefs, four siblings are subjected to an awful environment filled to the brim with torture and anguish. The Afflicted is based on the deadly Theresa Knorr case that took place in 1980s California.
Now, here's something for the gamers amongst you. A list of games that are based on true stories or people.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Kingdom Come: Deliverance - 76
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is one of the most historically accurate videogames to ever be created, and it's set in the medieval kingdom of Bohemia. The player incarnates one of the Skalitz's raids survivors during the war of 1403. The whole story is based on real events that happened in that conflict and it also includes historical figures like Wenceslaus IV, Sigismund of Luxemburg, and Racek Kobyla of Dvorce.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
The Saboteur - 76
In The Saboteur, gamers get to play as a character based on William Grover-Williams, a race car driver who fought against Nazis in World War II in France. In the game, however, his name is Sean Devlin and he is an Irish race car driver that gets involved in war operations to defeat the Third Reich by sabotaging their most important missions.
The different tasks that players must complete are very entertaining given that multiple different skills are required such as shooting, driving, sneaking, and climbing, among others. Although the characters can come off as stereotypical, they achieve a great ambiance of the French resistance, and the black and white visuals that appear when players enter areas occupied by Nazis add to the overall symbolism.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Valiant Hearts: The Great War - 77
The puzzle adventure available on Xbox, Valiant Hearts: The Great War is based on World War I and follows the story of multiple characters who try to help a soldier find his love. The historical elements of the game are truly outstanding and capture the horrors of war faithfully, but more than focusing on the military aspects of it, the game touches on themes regarding love and bonding between people in tragedy.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
That Dragon, Cancer - 78
The 2016 adventure game The Dragon, Cancer tells the true story of two parents who face the tragedy of their four-year-old son's terminal cancer. The player goes through the family's most complex scenarios to interact with multiple objects that offer fragments of Ryan and Amy Green's thoughts and memories of the tragedy.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
1979 Revolution: Black Friday - 80
1979 Revolution: Black Friday follows the story of Reza Shirazi in the Iranian Revolution. As an aspiring photojournalist, Reza has to take pictures of the events happening, but also make different decisions that drives the player to interact with its characters and surroundings. The game's historical accuracy, access to real documented information about the revolution, realistic recreation of specific events, and complex characters make this title one of a kind. The game narrative is truly outstanding and encapsulates effectively the three-dimensionality of the Iranian Revolution. There's no such thing as a black and white conflict, and iNK Stories knew how to embrace that statement into every dialogue, action, and depiction.
@noob404
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Assassin's Creed III - 80
All Assassin's Creed games have many accurate real-life references, characters, and places, among other characteristics, but the fifth game of the franchise is the one that best depicts an actual historical event: the American Revolution. Although the main plot is fictional, everything else that it is based on is quite real.
The realistic depictions of the American conflict provide the game with a very effective atmosphere that immerses players into that time of history. Like other titles of the franchise, the game has a lot of playable content and other plot elements that make the whole experience fun and educational. Although it is debatable if it is the best game of the Assassin's Creed series, it is definitely one of the most memorable.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
This War of Mine - 83
"For soldiers, war is about victory. For us, it was about getting food" says one of the characters of This War Of Mine at the opening of the game's trailer, and resumes perfectly the disturbing and sad angle taken upon the traces of war in a game that follows a group of civilians who are trying to survive in a besieged city.
The story is based on the country of Bosnia during the Siege of Sarajevo, and it profoundly captures the difficulties of facing disease, hunger, and death during periods of war. In a very unprecedented manner, This War of Mine takes the protagonist out of the battlefields and focuses on the sufferings of average people. The atmospheres are dark and depict effectively the inevitable horrors of such tragedy. Overall, the game achieves transcendental depth and an extremely moving experience.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 - 87
World War II is depicted in plenty of games, but it is a common opinion between players and game critics that Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 is the best one to touch on the matter. It is based on the true story of the U.S airborne landings in Normandy and it follows Sgt. Matt Baker (inspired by real-life sergeant Harrison Summers) and his squad.
Military tactics, commands, and fights feel impressively real due to the arduous investigation made by Gearbox Software of the true historical events. The gaming experience is as authentic as it gets, and details like dirt covering the soldier's vision, realistic sound effects, and the probability of being easily killed transport any player to the real-life battlefield.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
L.A. Noire - 89
L.A. Noire follows the story of detective Cole Phelps and it is set in Los Angeles in 1947. The chaotic year in L.A. was one of the most violent in the history of the United States, and it didn't help much that the cruelties of World War II were knocking on everyone's doors. The player must investigate and resolve multiple murder crime scenes, in which some true-life cases must be addressed.
Solving the real murder of Jeanne French, better known as the Black Dahlia, is among the most exciting and intriguing missions to play. Other real-life places and references as well as the compelling storylines turn the game into a captivating and plausible experience that revives all the thrilling aspects of the best noir films of all time.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
JFK Reloaded - 69
In this simulator, the player gets to relive the last living moments of John. F Kennedy, but as the shooter who committed the infamous assassination of the president. Although the event is a touchy subject and it may come out as insensitive, the game has vast documented information about the incident and recollects much of the evidence surrounding possible theories and conspiracies, which makes it quite educational.
Damn.. That's dark. @TrK You gonna love this game, esp. given it's got your favourite number in its name, although for all the wrong reasons.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Blackwater
Countless video games have depicted real wars over the course of the medium's history, but few have been so bold as to cast the player as a member of a real, highly controversial private military company. Blackwater does just that. The video game is a Kinect on-rails shooter developed by Zombie Studios that tasks the player with gunning down enemies in a fictional African country. Released in 2011, Blackwater debuted a mere four years after members of the real Blackwater private military company were convicted of murdering 14 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, Baghdad. The Blackwater private military company is still around today, though it has rebranded twice. The company initially changed its name to Xe Services in 2009. It became Academi in 2011, and remains so today.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Battlefield 1
There's a reasonable argument to be made that some moments in history are too horrendous to be replicated in certain mediums. For many people throughout the world, World War I is one of those moments. That didn't stop the developers at EA DICE from tackling one of the messiest wars in recent history and turning it into the online competitive shooter Battlefield 1. While the game's story-driven campaign was lauded for its smart, energetic writing, that story remained problematic in Europe, a region that saw nearly an entire generation of young men and boys wiped out during the Great War. And that's not hyperbole. World War I saw 60 million European troops mobilized, of which nine million perished. That's not even counting the seven million civilians that died.
VIDEO GAME TRIVIA - GAMES BASED ON TRUE STORIES
Quest for Bush (a game by Al-Qaeda)
The video game medium is bursting with potential–games can simulate very nearly anything. Unfortunately, that means almost anyone can spend a little time in the Unreal or Unity engines and make a video game about murdering a public official. That's the case with Quest for Bush, a 2006 first-person shooter that lets the player assassinate former United States President George W. Bush. If that all sounds intensely politically charged, just wait: it gets worse. The game was developed by the Global Islamic Media Front, which is a pretty innocuous name for an al-Qaeda propaganda organization. No one's really in the clear here, though. Quest for Bush is actually just a mod of Quest for Saddam, which has the player hunting down the late president of Iraq.