8 Horror Movies That Happened In Real Life

8. Halloween Inspires The Drug Trip From Hell

Whilst the infamous slasher movie Halloween was a work of fiction brought together by Carpenter's vivid imagination, the events that followed sure as heck weren't. The first two Halloween movies in the franchise spawned copy-cat crimes across the country, with more than one impressionable watcher succumbing to Michael Myers's stabby example.

In 1984, Richard Boyer claimed that whilst under the influence of PCP, marijuana, and alcohol, he thought he was under attack by Michael Myers - killing two victims in their late 60s in a botched robbery attempt. That he managed to both stab them 43 times as well as steal $50 dollars out of their pockets didn't do much to convince courts of his hallucination, however.

Even more horrifying, a Texan 17-year-old, Jake Evans, shot and killed his mother and sister with a .22 pistol in their home, claiming: “While watching it I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders,” Evans wrote, referencing Rob Zombie's 2007 remake, “and how little remorse he had afterwards. I was thinking to myself it would be the same for me when I kill someone.” It wasn't, and he turned himself in after realising his awful mistake.