10 True Stories Explained By Horror Movies

5. The Conspiracy

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This movie is really just one big long love letter to conspiracy theories at large, writing its own twisting and turning narrative to explain world events as controlled by a secret organisation. The organisation is a cult of worshippers to the Roman god Mithras, a society that has long existed in various forms over the years and holds ritualistic initiation practises for members to have a stake in how the world runs.

Events like 9/11 and World War 1 are related back to the Tarsus Club, and their sway over political landscapes boils down to meetings that coincidentally happen just beforehand. This movie is a paranoid conspiracy theorists' dreamscape, basically, and puts a whole new spin on why tragic human experiences have happened throughout history at all.

Now, The Conspiracy might be a fictional movie, but Mithraic religions and secret societies absolutely are not. It poses an interesting angle to think about if there really are organisations out there with the power to sway the world landscape in their favour, and if it would even be possible to see the strings being pulled by a higher force if they didn't want outsiders taking notice...

 
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