10 Movies Which Unwittingly Inspired Real-Life Crimes

3. A Clockwork Orange

The story of A Clockwork Orange is as infamous as any in film and the backlash was so fierce that Stanley Kubrick voluntarily withdrew it from distribution in the UK because of threats to him and his family. There are numerous cases of copycat crimes in regards to A Clockwork Orange such as a gang of young boys beating a homeless man to death, mirroring an early scene from the film.

More notoriously, a girl was gang-raped by a group of men who were singing "Singin' in the Rain" whilst committing the act, imitating the actions of Alex and his droogs in A Clockwork Orange's most infamous scene. The association to these crimes hurt the film and Kubrick massively and the film remained banned and locked away until the great director's death in 1999.