Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies

Overview

In Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies, Chiller investigates the terrifying factual stories that inspired some of the scariest horror movies of all time, including Silent Hill, The Amityville Horror, The Mothman Prophecies and Poltergeist, through exclusive eyewitness interviews and reenactments of actual events. Paranormal investigator Katrina Weidman (Paranormal State) travels with three of her friends into the dark recesses of the unknown to uncover the buried secrets behind these four iconic films. Journey down the haunted high-ways of the American East Coast on a road trip to discover the origins of our most beloved horror films made. From a grisly series of murders in the small town Amityville to a devastating, subterranean fire in the rural town of Centralia...From the eye-witness reports of the inexplicable, red-eyed creature known as Mothman to the documented paranormal activity that inspired Poltergeist...The movies may be fiction, but the fear is very, very real...

Directed by John D'Auria

Top cast

Katrina Weidman

Self - Host

Chris Holt

Self - Host

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Charity Winters

Self - Host

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John McGarry

Self - Host

Richard Dolan

Self - American Historian & Author

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Michael Laimo

Self - Author, Dead Souls

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Christopher Lutz

Self - Amityville Eyewitness

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Lucy Herrmann

Self - Poltergeist Witness

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