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Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies
Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies
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Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies

2012
2h
Documentary
Horror

Status

Released

Release

2012

Runtime

2h

Where to Watch

Available options inUS

Provider type

Streaming

3
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Troma NOW

Rent

1
Amazon Video

Buy

1
Amazon Video

Ads

2
Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads
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Storyline

"Real Fear"

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...

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
2h
Mar 11, 2012
Languages
English
Director
John D'Auria
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

8 Cast Members

Katrina Weidman

Katrina Weidman

Self - Host

Chris Holt

Chris Holt

Self - Host

Charity Winters

Self - Host

John McGarry

Self - Host

Richard Dolan

Richard Dolan

Self - American Historian & Author

Michael Laimo

Self - Author, Dead Souls

Christopher Lutz

Self - Amityville Eyewitness

Lucy Herrmann

Self - Poltergeist Witness

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