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On a warm summer evening in Aurora, Colorado, an excited audience sits down for the opening midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. But little do they know, this will be a night to remember, and not because of the film. For sitting among them is James Holmes, and he’s taken a little too much inspiration from one of Batman’s most recognizable supervillains, The Joker. Intent on causing chaos and destruction, this Joker-like villain is using the latest Batman release as his location for murder, and his deadly rampage won’t stop at the theater…. for back at his modest apartment, a clock is ticking, and hundreds more are in danger. Before the night is over, a killer with a disgusting joke will commit one of the most infamous copycat crimes in American history.
Most people remember the DC snipers terrorizing the Washington, DC area as the world watched for three weeks in October 2002. But what many do not realize is that it all stemmed from a movie. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo watched The Matrix before every shooting to remember their mission. They must create chaos to shake up and change the world that has been over taken by an oppressed system. No matter what race, age, gender if you are a part of the system than you are the enemy and therefore must be eliminated for the greater good.
For Regan Jolley, life seems too good to be true when she meets a charming young war veteran, Jason Hart, in rehab and starts a whirlwind romance. But when the relationship turns sour, Reagan doesn’t know that Hart’s desire to copy his Breaking Bad hero Jesse Pinkman includes more than drugs and violence. This story will include the show’s most devious plot point, a tub full of acid and a dead body.
1995’s movie, The Basketball Diaries, tells the story of a star student’s decent into the seedy underground world of heroin and violence on the streets of New York… not exactly a story you would expect to see in small town Paducah, Kentucky. But 14-year old Michael Carneal horrifies the nation when he reenacts the movie’s most violent scene with an unsuspecting group of students in a prayer circle. For while the theme of the movie is dark and disturbing, the Paducah high school freshman is on a quest for attention, seeking notoriety like the film’s star, Leonardo DiCaprio. He dreams of recreating the movie’s most violent scene, and before long, decides to act on his bloody fantasy. It’s a copycat killing that forever leaves a small town shaken to its core.
The "Robocop" movie franchise becomes more than just entertainment for Nathaniel White, whose appetite for the brutal on-screen violence potentially plays a role in him becoming a serial killer.
In an upscale, gated community in Texas, evil lurked from within as 17-year-old Jake Evans invoked Rob Zombie's revamped classic Hollywood slasher flick, "Halloween," in his homicidal quest to destroy his family.
Tony Soprano was a man who could seemingly get away with anything, even murder. But for 20 year-old Jason Bautista and his 15 year-old half-brother Michael Montejo, one particular Sopranos episode of manslaughter and dismemberment will inspire an even more sinister and tragic act. Just like Tony, Jason and Michael will attempt to bring an end to the source of all their troubles: their own mother.
The gruesome kidnap and torture of 16 year-old Suzanne Capper ends in murder. But the story proves even more twisted upon the revelation that the character Chuckie from the movie “Child’s Play” played a dark and sinister role in inspiring her killers.
The perfect heist quickly becomes more than airman Dale Pierre and his friends ever bargained for. Inspired by a scene from the Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry series, they rob a local electronics store. Just like the movie, things quickly turn deadly.
Quentin Tarantino is affectionately known as “The Master of Suspense” due to his love for excessive violence and cutthroat retaliations. One fan, 16-year-old Allan Bentley, drew inspiration from Tarantino’s first film Reservoir Dogs after finding out that a friend was dating his ex-girlfriend. Allan decides to recreate the film’s bloodiest scene, roping in two friends as his accomplices in a bloodcurdling series of events.
On May 23, 2015, a triple murder shook the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire, England when 21-year-old Jed Allen reaches his boiling point. Jed is furious about his mother’s spiraling relapse with drugs and alcohol, caused by a boyfriend that Jed does not approve of. Worried for his mother and his younger half-sister Derin, he kills the three in a blind rage. His misguided and intense need to protect his family stems from his idealization of X-Men’s Wolverine. Jed Allen identifies with the character known for being a loner with a kind heart, but he allows his good intentions to morph him into a killer instead.
In Deliverance, a group of friends from the city take a seemingly innocent weekend trip to canoe in rural Georgia. However, the weekend takes an unimaginable turn for the worse. The same drastic demise happens to Poughkeepsie, New York history teacher Albert Fentress one night when a young man happens to run onto his lawn. Watching Deliverance seems to have disturbed deeply rooted and hidden urges Albert had, all of which he acted upon after entering a psychotic state.
Troubled teenager Jonathan Cruz obsessed over the premise behind the movie "The Purge," a dystopian horror film that explores the ruthless nature of humans who are given the freedom to do whatever they want during a 12-hour period once per year.
Troubled teenager Jonathan Cruz obsessed over the premise behind the movie "The Purge," a dystopian horror film that explores the ruthless nature of humans who are given the freedom to do whatever they want during a 12-hour period once per year.
Lyle and Erik Menendez lived a comfortable life, but when their self-made father finally cuts them off, the boys are outraged and they start to compare themselves to the characters in the popular TV movie "Billionaire Boys Club."
Leonard Lake sought attention from countless women, many of which rejected him; his partner-in-crime, Charles Ng, assisted him in building a bunker in which many women would pass through leaving their fates in his hands.
Erin Caffey's life starts resembling that of Nicole Walker, a character in James Foley's 1996 film, "Fear," and like Nicole, when Erin begins dating the town bad boy, her parents disapprove and forbid her from seeing him again.
George Hennard searches all his life for love, but no matter how hard he tries, he can't find it; after years of constant rejection, his resentment and hatred of women grows and he turns to murder in 1991.
George Hennard searches all his life for love, but no matter how hard he tries, he can't find it; after years of constant rejection, his resentment and hatred of women grows and he turns to murder in 1991.
George Hennard searches all his life for love, but no matter how hard he tries, he can't find it; after years of constant rejection, his resentment and hatred of women grows and he turns to murder in 1991.
