10 Movies That Eerily Predicted Things In Real Life

8. The Beltway Sniper Attacks - Phone Booth

The Movie

Joel Schumacher's cult classic thriller stars Colin Farrell as a man who answers a ringing phone, only to find himself held hostage by the caller (Kiefer Sutherland), who has a sniper rifle trained on him.

How It Predicted Reality

Phone Booth was shot at the end of 2000, but didn't end up released in cinemas until the spring of 2003 due to the film's unexpected relevance to real-life events.

From February to October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorised Maryland, Virginia and D.C. by killing 17 random people with high-powered sniper rifles, in what were ultimately dubbed the Beltway sniper attacks.

By modifying their car to contain a "sniper's nest" in the trunk, the pair could surreptitiously shoot people through a small hole in the trunk without alerting suspicion.

Six weeks after Phone Booth's September 2002 premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the pair were finally brought to justice, the publicity around which caused Fox to push the film back almost six months from its planned November release.

Unsurprisingly, though, the press was still all-too-eager to compare the movie to real life when it finally landed in cinemas.