The Shocking Truth

The Godfather tells the gripping tale of the Corleone family and their struggle for power in the bloody world of organized crime in 1950s New York. The film was a box office smash that reignited the gangster picture, but the brutal gangland violence on screen had nothing compared to The Shocking Truth of real life mobster Frank Costello.

"The Fugitive" follows the journey of Dr. Richard Kimble, a man wrongfully accused of murdering his wife. Kimble escapes custody, and sets out to find the real killer - the infamous "one-armed man." But the shocking truth is that the film is based on the real murder of the wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard.

Scream is the story of two horror movie obsessed killers who terrorize and eventually kill high school students in their small town of Woodsboro. But the shocking truth is that the film is inspired by a real life serial killer known as the Gainesville Ripper. You may think you know the story of Scream, but this is The Shocking Truth.

"Friday The 13th" is the story of a group of teenagers who are stalked and murdered while trying to reopen a summer camp at Crystal Lake. But the shocking truth is that the film is based on the real life murders of three teenagers at Lake Bodom, Finland.

The Scream movies featuring the iconic Ghostface killer are one of the most popular horror franchises of all time. The four movies have grossed more than $330 million in the U.S. alone. But the roots of the grisly story go back to a horrifying murder in Florida in the early 1990s from which the Scream screenwriter drafted a script about a young woman alone in a house who is taunted over the phone and then attacked by a masked killer.

A man decides that life in a mental hospital would be easier than life in prison.