Will Hollywood ever get in trouble for "based on a real story" movies

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

To this day there are people who still claim that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre really happened. People be dumb.

Tobe Hooper's inspiration was the real life serial killer Ed Gein, who was also the inspiration for Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and Deranged (which stuck relatively closely to the real case compared to the others). So while it didn't really happen just like that, a real serial killer who wore people's skin fired up film-makers and writers imaginations quite a few times.