just because you saw it on screen
doesn’t mean it’s right two robbers
dressed as nuns held up a suburban bank
and embracing daytime heist welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten real-life
crimes inspired by movies and TV welcome
to Fight Club
number 10 Fight Club the first rule of
Fight Club is you do not talk about
Fight Club but that didn’t stop young
Americans from posting videos of their
own real-life fight clubs online after
the film’s release and that’s not the
only real world connection to this
violent flick it’s also suspected of
inspiring two bombers Luke Helder
targeted mailboxes with pipe bombs while
Kyle Shah set off a homemade bomb
nearest Starbucks in an attempt to
initiate anarchy and start his own
Project Mayhem the demolitions committee
of Project Mayhem wrap the foundation
columns of a dozen buildings with
blasting gelatin and two minutes primary
charges will blow base charges in a few
square blocks will be reduced to
smoldering rubble number nine The Deer
Hunter this film’s use of Russian
Roulette was initially criticized for
misrepresenting the Vietnam War however
its depiction of the lethal game of
chance came under fire even more heavily
when reports surfaced of Russian
roulette related deaths it was estimated
that 25 people worldwide died as a
result of trying their luck with a
version of the game similar to the one
played by Christopher Walken and Robert
De Niro number 8 Dexter though it’s
critically acclaimed this drama about a
blood spatter analyst by day serial
killer by night has received criticism
especially once it was suspected as the
inspiration for several actual murders
after Dexter fan Andrew Connelly
strangled his 10 year old brother Mark
Twitchell made news by
a double life and luring married men in
search of illicit relationships through
an online dating site however he only
killed one man before being caught in
mid-august his online profile was
updated to read mark has way too much in
common with Dexter Morgan number 7
Magnum force the second installment in
Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry series
features a scene where a prostitute is
killed with drain cleaning solutions and
it was this scene that supposedly
inspired the real-life – murder ‘he’s
perps trying to rob a home Audio store
forced their hostages to drink the
liquid
however when their victims did not die
quickly enough the criminals tortured
raped and killed the three captives
number six the child’s play series the
murderous Chucky doll and the child’s
play film franchise have been implicated
in several chilling incidents including
1996’s Port Arthur massacre after a gang
tortured and killed a teenager while
making her listen to a tape that
repeated I’m Chucky wanna play the press
also linked the movies to a case where
two ten-year-olds splashed a
two-year-old boy with paint then
mutilated and murdered him number five
the matrix
because of this sci-fi flicks stylized
violence and the unique look of its
characters The Matrix has been blamed
for multiple crimes from the Columbine
High School massacre to the 2002 Beltway
sniper attacks its alternate reality
storyline even spawned the matrix
defense which was used in two separate
court cases where a landlady was killed
and the defendants were eventually
deemed insane number four Screen
America’s most commercially successful
slasher movie has been linked to
numerous real-life copycat slashings
first was 1998 scream murder when two
cousins stabbed one of their mothers 45
times to get the money required to
subsidize their planned killing spree
the next year two teens stabbed but did
not kill a 13 year old boy finally there
was thierry Jarrod a whose unrequited
love caused him to kill the teenaged
Alyson can be a while wearing a ghost
facemask number three a Clockwork Orange
this movie allegedly inspired so many
crimes and triggered so much public
criticism that Stanley Kubrick willingly
removed it from British distribution
related offenses included several
murders by teenaged boys as well as the
assault of a woman by a man dressed as a
Droog perhaps most notorious was the
film’s singing in the rain rape scene
which contains scary similarities to a
real-life gang rape where the
perpetrators also sang the song number 2
Natural Born Killers with a plot
inspired by two real-life mass murderers
this film was scandalous from the get-go
in a case of art imitating life than
life imitating art Sarah Edmondson and
Benjamin James Daris decided to become
natural-born killers murdering one and
paralyzing another it’s just murder man
all God’s creatures do they were then
taken to court alongside Oliver Stone
and Time Warner the controversy worsened
when rumors surfaced that the Columbine
High School shooters were also fans
number one taxi driver after seeing the
fourteen-year-old Jodie Foster play a
child prostitute in this vigilante flick
John Hinckley jr. became obsessed with
trying to catch her attention he decided
to imitate the attempt made by Robert De
Niro’s character to assassinate a
politician and set his sights on Ronald
Reagan in 1981 here’s a president
they’re the shots fortunately the
president was only wounded and Hinckley
was found guilty by reason of insanity
though movies and television shows are a
form of expression they can also
showcase crimes and situations that are
dangerous painful or lead to unnecessary
loss of life it’s important to learn
about a past so we don’t repeat it be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
more informative top 10s
doesn’t mean it’s right two robbers
dressed as nuns held up a suburban bank
and embracing daytime heist welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten real-life
crimes inspired by movies and TV welcome
to Fight Club
number 10 Fight Club the first rule of
Fight Club is you do not talk about
Fight Club but that didn’t stop young
Americans from posting videos of their
own real-life fight clubs online after
the film’s release and that’s not the
only real world connection to this
violent flick it’s also suspected of
inspiring two bombers Luke Helder
targeted mailboxes with pipe bombs while
Kyle Shah set off a homemade bomb
nearest Starbucks in an attempt to
initiate anarchy and start his own
Project Mayhem the demolitions committee
of Project Mayhem wrap the foundation
columns of a dozen buildings with
blasting gelatin and two minutes primary
charges will blow base charges in a few
square blocks will be reduced to
smoldering rubble number nine The Deer
Hunter this film’s use of Russian
Roulette was initially criticized for
misrepresenting the Vietnam War however
its depiction of the lethal game of
chance came under fire even more heavily
when reports surfaced of Russian
roulette related deaths it was estimated
that 25 people worldwide died as a
result of trying their luck with a
version of the game similar to the one
played by Christopher Walken and Robert
De Niro number 8 Dexter though it’s
critically acclaimed this drama about a
blood spatter analyst by day serial
killer by night has received criticism
especially once it was suspected as the
inspiration for several actual murders
after Dexter fan Andrew Connelly
strangled his 10 year old brother Mark
Twitchell made news by
a double life and luring married men in
search of illicit relationships through
an online dating site however he only
killed one man before being caught in
mid-august his online profile was
updated to read mark has way too much in
common with Dexter Morgan number 7
Magnum force the second installment in
Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry series
features a scene where a prostitute is
killed with drain cleaning solutions and
it was this scene that supposedly
inspired the real-life – murder ‘he’s
perps trying to rob a home Audio store
forced their hostages to drink the
liquid
however when their victims did not die
quickly enough the criminals tortured
raped and killed the three captives
number six the child’s play series the
murderous Chucky doll and the child’s
play film franchise have been implicated
in several chilling incidents including
1996’s Port Arthur massacre after a gang
tortured and killed a teenager while
making her listen to a tape that
repeated I’m Chucky wanna play the press
also linked the movies to a case where
two ten-year-olds splashed a
two-year-old boy with paint then
mutilated and murdered him number five
the matrix
because of this sci-fi flicks stylized
violence and the unique look of its
characters The Matrix has been blamed
for multiple crimes from the Columbine
High School massacre to the 2002 Beltway
sniper attacks its alternate reality
storyline even spawned the matrix
defense which was used in two separate
court cases where a landlady was killed
and the defendants were eventually
deemed insane number four Screen
America’s most commercially successful
slasher movie has been linked to
numerous real-life copycat slashings
first was 1998 scream murder when two
cousins stabbed one of their mothers 45
times to get the money required to
subsidize their planned killing spree
the next year two teens stabbed but did
not kill a 13 year old boy finally there
was thierry Jarrod a whose unrequited
love caused him to kill the teenaged
Alyson can be a while wearing a ghost
facemask number three a Clockwork Orange
this movie allegedly inspired so many
crimes and triggered so much public
criticism that Stanley Kubrick willingly
removed it from British distribution
related offenses included several
murders by teenaged boys as well as the
assault of a woman by a man dressed as a
Droog perhaps most notorious was the
film’s singing in the rain rape scene
which contains scary similarities to a
real-life gang rape where the
perpetrators also sang the song number 2
Natural Born Killers with a plot
inspired by two real-life mass murderers
this film was scandalous from the get-go
in a case of art imitating life than
life imitating art Sarah Edmondson and
Benjamin James Daris decided to become
natural-born killers murdering one and
paralyzing another it’s just murder man
all God’s creatures do they were then
taken to court alongside Oliver Stone
and Time Warner the controversy worsened
when rumors surfaced that the Columbine
High School shooters were also fans
number one taxi driver after seeing the
fourteen-year-old Jodie Foster play a
child prostitute in this vigilante flick
John Hinckley jr. became obsessed with
trying to catch her attention he decided
to imitate the attempt made by Robert De
Niro’s character to assassinate a
politician and set his sights on Ronald
Reagan in 1981 here’s a president
they’re the shots fortunately the
president was only wounded and Hinckley
was found guilty by reason of insanity
though movies and television shows are a
form of expression they can also
showcase crimes and situations that are
dangerous painful or lead to unnecessary
loss of life it’s important to learn
about a past so we don’t repeat it be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com for
more informative top 10s
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