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Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies

2012, English. Directed by John D'Auria.

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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11 March 2012
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Next in the series: Real Fear 2: The Truth Behind More Movies (2013).

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Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies is streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Troma NOW in India. (Checked 14 November 2026.)

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Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies (2012) was directed by John D'Auria and stars Katrina Weidman, Chris Holt, Charity Winters.

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