10 Movies Which Unwittingly Inspired Real-Life Crimes

9. Fight Club

David Fincher's fearsome adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's insanely popular novel has spurred people to set up 'fight clubs' of their own, with many being founded across America. Fight Club also seemed to inspire a large number of teenagers to set up their own forms of fight club at school and have fights on the grounds, but these were quickly suppressed by the authorities.

On the more dangerous side of things, a lot of people were inspired by the anti-capitalist message of the film and went about imitating the acts of Tyler Durden. One such imitator was Kyle Shaw who set off a homemade bomb created from fireworks and set it off outside a Starbucks, an infamous symbol of corporate America.

Shaw was said to be planning his own Project Mayhem, the group set up in the film by Tyler Durden to bring down corporate America. Shaw plotted to mimic the events of the film and was a noted obsessive fan of both the book and film, making the association clear.