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CAN WE HAVE THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS FILM ONCE AND FOR ALL PLEASE?

posted 16 years ago by kh709
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Just watched this film. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I came on here to find out which parts were true and to try and find a source for the factual events this film was based on. I only got more confused as I read.

I presume that film makers can't just make up the line "based on true events" without any evidence.

So please, for myself and everyone else on here, can someone in the know inform us as to wether or not there were adult murders in Romania carried out by children, as told in this film. Can you also provide some links/sources to the news reports if possible?

Many Thanks

[–] BrunoAntony 16 years ago

Do your own research, lazy.

[–] chods70 16 years ago

The true story is that two French people went on holiday to a house in the country. They had a jolly good time and came home after a fortnight. The rest is made up.

[–] wex69 14 years ago

You made my day, lol!
Thx...

[–] yeoffthecat 14 years ago

Really; we all have to do ours.

I live in a glass house, ergo, I throw no stones.

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[–] thetheeyecreature 16 years ago

As far as I know, you can make up anything, put the title "Based on true events" in your movie, and there's no legal penalty. It's such a vague phrase as to be legally meaningless.

"The truth 24 times a second."

[–] unbelievabubble 16 years ago

Yup. 'Fargo' was based on true events too.

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[–] Strazdamonas 14 years ago

The Entity were aswell

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[–] Bou 14 years ago

Yep. This ain't Rigoberta Menchu. Or James Frey.

[–] vetbridge 16 years ago

THE TRUTH???? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!

[–] maha_nyc 16 years ago

lol, that was such a Fox Mulder/X-files response dude!

[–] DeadAddiction 16 years ago

willow was based on true events

What Brings You Around?
Did You Lose Something The Last Time You Were Here?

[–] moonjin 16 years ago

actually that was from a few good man

[–] vetbridge 16 years ago

A Few Good Men

Kaffee: I want the truth!
Col. Jessep: [shouts] You can’t handle the truth!

[–] alkamal_r 15 years ago

Haha, actually it's from The Firm.

We call this the Loom of Fate.

[–] GinoFelino 15 years ago

maha_nyc,

The truth is out there.

[–] jenx42-136-901911 9 years ago

It was actually from A Few Good Men, but super Muldery as well.

[–] shacheropop 16 years ago

jack nicholson as col. jessep

[–] RobinGottfridsson 16 years ago

The truth... it wasn't something drastic like that. It was just a couple of teenagers who went nuts and came up with a sick thought to kill and went to a couples house in the woods in Romania and murdered them. It wasn't as "WOW" as in the movie, but still... it's horrible that kids and teenagers thinks like that.

But that's all i found out. A couple in Romania was murdered by 3 teenage guys in the ages 15-18 or something like that. Knives was included anyways.

Screenwriter, what are you?

[–] Addieo 16 years ago

at the end of the film it says killers between age of 10 n 15. I take it the star part isn't true. My faveourite part where the kid says momma back at her

[–] baudelairesmuse 15 years ago

First useful answer of this thread. Thank you.

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[–] Replicant_0376957 15 years ago

Sounds like it could have been a romantic comedy if they stuck to the true events then.

[–] elongmire 16 years ago

The Texas Chainsaw Masssacre was based on "a true story" as well, that of Ed Gein. While Ed did have a house full of cadaver based furniture and committed acts of primarily post mortem cannibalism, he didn't run a barbeque stand, live with a family or abduct teenagers. True events are extremely loose in their interpretation. For my money, this true event could be based upon any of the far to common home invasion crimes.
Oh, yeah...I agree with the person who said "do your own research". You're on the internet and you take the word of people you don't know instead of spending 15 minutes on googling for a semi reputable news source?

[–] Dr_Gonzo_Starkweather 16 years ago

The true story is that two French people went on holiday to a house in the country. They had a jolly good time and came home after a fortnight. The rest is made up.

Hahaha, this was the best post I've read in a good while.

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[–] picasso2 15 years ago

Psycho was based on the same guy as the chainsaw massacre guy.

[–] jlb1992 14 years ago

I think the villain of Silence of the Lambs was too.

I am actually older than your Jesus. I wish I could have known him, but I missed it.

[–] RichBoorman 14 years ago

Actually, Tobe Hooper said that he'd never heard about Ed Gein until somebody else watched his movie and drew some comparisons.

[–] sundaesmile 13 years ago

In the TCSM commentary, Hooper said that he had heard of Gein from relatives that lived in Wisconsin when Gein's activities were discovered, and it was indeed an influence. Hooper just didn't know his name until later.

[–] everything_morbid 12 years ago

Ed Gein, maître d at Canal Bar, right?

http://theforlornpath.blogspot.com/

[–] herjabram 13 years ago

yeah chainsaw was based on Ed Gein, as well as Psycho;
if you watch those two movies you wouldn't tell they were based on the same story

[–] drcdiaconu 15 years ago

Hi kh79, I am impressed about your interest about this french-romanian movie-Ils. I live in Bucharest, Romania, and my mother has a holiday house in Snagov, the village from the movie where the crimes have happened. In that village, in the woods, a french citizen living in Romania, pedophil - according to the police investigation, was killed by a group of children, in 2002-2003. I didn't find no link in English about this case.
It was not the single case of an adult murdered by children in Romania. In other cases there were involved "children of the streets" (homeless orphans or abandoned children), the victims were usually homeless adults.

All the best!
Cristi

P.S. If you are interested in discussion about Romanian movies or movies with action in Romania, let me know!

[–] jeff-b-2 15 years ago

yeh it appears to be completely made up. Kind of like that movie "The Strangers" was 'inspired by true events'. After looking that up, the only true event that happened was someone knocked on the director's door in the middle of the night once. The ensuing murders that we see in the movie was the fake part.

[–] aqemzi 15 years ago

The murder part was inspired by Charles Manson. The knocking inspired the director to turn it into a movie

R.I.P Heath Ledger

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[–] enter_the_fist 15 years ago

probably partially true... here's a link to the film's wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_(2006_film)

WTF R U looking at?