10 WTF Horror Movie Scenes Inspired By Real Life

More WTF than fiction.

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It's often said that horror movies hold up the mirror to our very real fears and anxieties, whether a murderer who might be waiting in our midst or a more general fear of the unknown.

And as true as that absolutely is, sometimes genre filmmakers dare to go further than that and actually turn to real-life terror for some direct inspiration. These 10 horror movie scenes, each of them sublimely screwed up, found that reality truly is terrifying enough to be adapted to the big-screen.

From nauseatingly authentic death scenes which got a little too real, to creatively over-the-top catastrophes, stranger-than-fiction plot twists, and everything in-between, these scenes all took cues from the horrors of the everyday.

Though in most cases the true facts were of course embellished by filmmakers for the sake of delivering a bigger thrill, in each case the DNA of the scene is rooted in something that, believe it or not, actually happened.

After all, the scenes that are going to leave you awake at night thinking about them are the ones which present a threat that's genuinely palpable...

10. Rob Shouts "He's Killing Me!" As Jason Kills Him - Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter

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Paramount Pictures

The Friday the 13th franchise has played host to some of the most iconically ridiculous death scenes in the entire horror genre, and perhaps none more than Rob Dier's (Erich Anderson) outrageous demise in the fourth movie, The Final Chapter.

Rob is cornered by Jason (Ted White) in the basement, and repeatedly shouts "He's killing me!" while Jason hacks him to pieces, as Trish Jarvis (Kimberly Beck) looks on in horror.

The scene has been widely ridiculed by fans over the years for its presumed implausibility, though in the bestselling book "Crystal Lake Memories," director Joseph Zito claimed the scene was influenced by a story he read in a New York newspaper.

In the story, a man was being stabbed to death while shouting, "Please stop hurting me, please stop killing me!," which Zito perceived as infinitely more disturbing than a mere scream.

As much as he attempted to translate that unsettling quality into Jason's kill, most fans continue to laugh the scene off as totally absurd to this very day.

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