True Horror

10 fright films based on strange facts

Mitch Horowitz
8 min readJun 30, 2017

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The truth hurts, Rosemary.

The best kind of scare is the one that’s real, or just might be. Here are 10 supernatural thrillers that draw upon intriguingly authentic historical facts and personas.

1. “Rosemary’s Baby,” written and directed by Roman Polanski (1968)

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China