What gives a movie enough ';true facts'; to claim ';based on a true story';? Such as ';The Haunting in Connecti?

What gives a movie enough ';true facts'; to claim ';based on a true story';? Such as ';The Haunting in Connecticut'; or ';The Texas Chainsaw Massacre';. These cannot be completely true in my opinion, and what gives a movie enough truefulness to claim it as a true story.What gives a movie enough ';true facts'; to claim ';based on a true story';? Such as ';The Haunting in Connecti?
Horror movies are notorious for finding some backwoods newspaper article to make the story more plausible.





Blair With Project was one of the worst movies of all time. They didn't claim it was true, just based on an old legend.What gives a movie enough ';true facts'; to claim ';based on a true story';? Such as ';The Haunting in Connecti?
Well the events that happen are based on real events, it’s not the entire story that movies are based on. Just like with the Disney Pocahontas movie, parts of it are true, but the writers at Disney spiced it up to make it more interesting. Very little of the events in horror movies are true. They are mostly just based on the idea of the events, or the event was inspiring to the movie maker.
A Haunting in Connecticut is definitely true. They even did a segment about it on A Haunting (a showing on the History channel) and the family came on and talked about there experience. Texas Chainsaw on the other hand is NOT true. The character Leatherface is based on a real man (the same man Hannibal is based on) who used to kill people and eat them i think but the stroy itself is not true. As far as what qualifies a movie to make the claim ';based on a true story';....well anything really. As long as there is one tiny thing thats true, the entire movie can be credited as true. For instance, The Strangers says its inspired by a true story...but the story itself never actually happened. It was inspired by the Manson Family Murders....but the movie had nothing to do with that.
Any movie can claim to be 'based on a true story' because the key word is 'based'. It doesn't even have to remotely resemble the original story to have been based upon it.
The key word is 'BASED'. What it is 'based' on is only the 'basis' or foundation for the story. The rest is bells and whistles, and special effects, and exaggeration.
probably a nonfiction books and proof of the ghost that the family saw such as pictures and stuff and recordings
There was a parody movie about these whose title summed the whole thing up nicely. It was called ';Based on an Untrue Story';.
well haunting in CT is not tru... i live ther so.... but TX massacre did happen, maybe not exactly like movie but they needed to make it look good