10 Horror Films That Eerily Came True

6. Nightmare On Elm Street

Another classic Wes Craven film, Nightmare on Elm Street features the scar faced Freddy Krueger who visits his victims in their dreams before murdering them.

In 2004, the paranoid schizophrenic Daniel Gonzalez went on a drug-fuelled rampage murdering four people and injuring two others. It later emerged that the killer had been inspired by Nightmare on Elm Street and had a desire to become "a famous serial killer."

Gonzalez would later write letters to himself in which he would describe how much he enjoyed committing the murders and how similar he was to Freddy Krueger.

In what might be an even creepier example of a horror movie eerily becoming true, is the existence of what is known as Nightmare Death Syndrome. The condition, in which otherwise healthy young men die during sleep, is not well understood, and seems to mostly affect young, Asian men. Most victims are reported to be heard moaning and groaning in their sleep before death occurs.