5 Movies Based on Real Possession Cases

We enjoy movies for their entertainment value, but sometimes the stuff we love to watch is inspired by more sinister real life roots. The horror films in this list are already disturbing but they become more terrifying when you realize that they actually happened. These are 5 movies based on real possession cases.
5. The Conjuring based on The Perron Family
After moving into a quaint farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island in 1970, Roger and Carolyn Perron along with their five daughters thought they had finally found their dream home. But they were wrong.
Almost as soon as they moved in, weird and unusual things began happening. Their family dog, Sadie, refused to go inside the house and she was later found dead in the backyard. All of the clocks inside would stop at 3:07 AM every single night.
4. Deliver Us From Evil based on Ralph Sarchies' memoir
Deliver Us From Evil is a 2014 film about an NYPD cop who encounters a series of bizarre, supernatural events while on the job, leading him to transition from the world of human crime to the supernatural. The film starts with three marines who discover an underground cavern in the in Iraq. As they explore it they start to scream as their helmet video feed suddenly goes black. Three years later, we meet NYPD officer, Ralph Sarchie, standing over a baby's corpse in a dark alley.
3. The Possession Inspired by the Haunted Dybbuk Box
In the 2012 film, The Possession, the story revolves around a haunted Dybbuk (Dibbuk) box that falls in the possession of a young girl. When Clyde and Stephanie Brenek separated, they had to take turns caring for their two children, Em and Hannah. When Clyde went over to pick up the kids, they passed by a yard sale where Em is intrigued by an old wooden box with Hebrew writing on it. Clyde buys it but they can’t figure out how to open it.
2. The Entity based on Doris Bither
First released in 1982, The Entity starred Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a woman being consistently raped and tortured by a malevolent spirit inside her home. Urged by a friend, Carla went to see a psychiatrist and undergo therapy, thinking the problem was psychological. But her psychiatrist believes that because of her past, the problem was purely self-inflicted. Soon, her friend, Cindy witnesses the attack herself and they begin to discuss that the issue could be supernatural.
1. The Haunting in Connecticut based on Carmen Snedeker
The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 film loosely based on the real-life story of Carmen Snedeker and her family.
In the film, Sara and Peter Campbell are looking for a rental home close to the hospital where their son Matthew had been receiving cancer treatments. Sara spots a man putting up a "For Rent" sign on a large house and he offers her a month off if she would rent the property right away and She agrees. So Peter, with his other son, Billy, and two nieces arrive and they each pick their choice of room. Matt, the eldest son, chooses the basement with a mysterious door