10 Movies You Didn't Know Were Based On Real-Life People

10. The Hills Have Eyes

The second feature film of the legendary Wes Craven - well, unless you count the Fireworks Woman adult movie Craven helmed under the Abe Snake alias - The Hills Have Eyes stands as a huge favourite of many a horror hound to this day.

What many of those fans may not realise, is that The Hills Have Eyes took inspiration from some very real horrors carried out by Alexander 'Sawney' Bean.

Legend has it, Bean was a 16th century Scotsman who took his clan out into the hills, where they led a life of incest, murder and cannibalism. The belief is that Sawney and his family were responsible for attacking over 1,000 passers-by.

Pulling direct inspiration from this, Craven's 1977 The Hills Have Eyes showcased a murderous tribe of cannibals looking to prey on those passing through the desert. And like the story of Alexander Bean, the iconic Horror Master's movie concluded with the purported victims of the tale being just as vicious and violent as their attackers once the tables were turned.

In real life, the Bean clan were tortured, quartered, burned and hanged by the officials of the day.