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Is this based on a true story?



Is this based on a true story?

Hey, go easy.. I do actually suffer with Dyslexia.

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lmao

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Yes...yes, it is.

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Um, yeah.

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Best post ever

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This is based on the Demon Outbreak of Berlin in 1984.

Since it was in the part of Berlin that was controlled by Soviet Russia, we never found out until a Soviet military official involved in cleaning up the mess leaked the information to Dardano Sachetti.

You see, the official was off duty in a bar a year after the incident. He had taken to drinking to cope with what he saw on the streets during the days of the clean up.

By pure chance, Dardano Sachetti met the drunk man there after sneaking in to take pictures of the East side of the Berlin Wall.

Sachetti, writer of the original story, just copied what the military man told him and changed the setting to West Berlin, occupied by the Allies, so that the Soviets wouldn't look bad if people like you asked questions like this.

When Sachetti returned after the Wall had fallen in order to find the official who'd told him the story, he found that the man was no longer serving in the now Russian military. He had been dishonorably discharged for being drunk while on duty and sent back home to what by then had become Saint Petersburg again.

Sachetti found only a grave.

Of course, any other Soviet official denied the incident ever took place, and to this very day, Russian authorities' official stance is that the Demon Outbreak never happened and that the movie Demoni was just a tale spun by Sachetti.

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i remember it well, the Demon outbreak of 1985, funny it never really mentioned since but it damm scary when it happened.

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d_rutger.... Genius.

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Bump for lolz.


I wish I were a Warhol silk screen hanging on the wall...

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Yes indeed...it's directly pulled from Black Friday footage at the local Walmart...

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Apparently Tony the Pimp was actually present during the real outbreak.

He plays himself in the film.

Although he had to tone it down a bit.

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They also built him a statue in Berlin, because of the lives he saved and everything.

They decided to make him die in the movie because they thought it would've been more memorable and tragic.

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Hmmm, is it though?

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Did you not pay attention in school? They've been teaching this in history classes since '86.

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Horrific but this movie was based on true events. I know because one of my family members never made it out of that theatre. For legal reasons, they used a different name in the film but my aunt was in fact 'Rosemary'.
RIP Aunt Vonda and to the rest of the Metropol victims who died that tragic night.

She melts in your mouth, she melts in your hands.

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It kind of bugs me that no one ever mentions the thousands of demons who died in the outbreak of '86.

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I know what you mean Bhoooop_Daahuut, my little cousin died in the demon outbreak of '86! Contaminated blood dripped onto him and he turned into an angry midget.... then a puppet burst out of him.... then a fat women poured acid onto him and an umbrella was shoved through his head.

We light a candle for him every year.

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The story of your cousin really touched me Adzyb. I'm fighting back the tears as I write this.

People just don't get that when their is a demon outbreak, there are casualties on both sides.

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