Nightmare on Elm Street
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is one of the most iconic horror films of all time. The film, directed by Wes Craven, has as main antagonist Freddy Krueger, a violent murderer who stalks his victims inside his dreams, making sleep become a danger.
Although the plot seemed most fanciful, its creator revealed that it was inspired by a disturbing real story. Craven conceived this film after reading a series of newspaper articles from the Los Angeles Times, which told the story of a group of Asian immigrants who began to have horrible nightmares that led them to refuse to sleep and when they finally fell asleep again, they died inexplicably
As Craven explained to Cinema Fantastique magazine, he had the idea of designing a truly frightening psychopath for a new film and without expecting it, he found inspiration in the real world.
"I wanted to do something that was tied to the depths of our subconscious. I had a previous career in the academic world (I had studied psychology at John Hopkins University), so there were certain things I knew, "he said on that occasion.
This is how the filmmaker took elements from Freudian and Jungian psychology and mixed them with what he read in the newspaper, giving as a fruit to a monstrous murderer who lived in the subconscious of his victims.
But what really happened to those who died in their dreams in real life? According to the Gizmodo portal, they suffered something known as unexpected sudden death syndrome.
The stories read by Craven addressed the case of about a hundred Asian individuals, mainly male, young and healthy, who died in their dreams and whose autopsies revealed no anomaly in their body.
It was a group of ethnic immigrants known as Hmong or Miao, who arrived in the United States escaping mainly from Laos, where they were persecuted to death.
When Vietnam attacked Laos - one of the main residence points of the Hmong - he named them "priority enemies" and began to kill them. This, in response to the fact that many ethnic youths had previously fought in favor of the United States - its main adversary - in exchange for promises of a better life. This is how many members began to flee to other parts of the world, including the US, where they were granted the status of "political refugees".
When they arrived in North America, life became difficult for this ethnic group, who barely spoke English and faced a tremendous cultural shock. The worst thing was that when they began to adapt to this very different society, some of them began to die in their dreams.
According to Gizmodo, the first case that was known occurred in 1977 in Orange County. There, Ly Houa - a hardworking, hard-working man - died inexplicably. That was the beginning of the ten deaths of the same nature.
Over the course of 5 years, more than a score of young and healthy Hmong immigrants had died in a similar manner.
According to the witnesses, before dying these people moaned and seemed desperate in the middle of their dreams. This situation began to alarm the members of the ethnic group, who saw how many of them died so strangely.
Before the confusion, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States began to conduct research to determine the causes. Heart failure, consequences of gas attacks suffered by the people, stress or extreme fear, were some of the options that were shuffled.
Then, other cases appeared in Asia not related to the Hmong and involving Japanese, Filipinos and Singaporeans. In fact, there were researchers who claimed that 500 Japanese had died in previous years of similar causes, repeating the same pattern: healthy young people - less than 35 years old - who died in their sleep. Also, it was determined that 43 of 100 thousand Filipino men were prone to die in this way.
To this was added a study that showed that about 200 Thai men died between 1982 and 1989 in a similar way. This led to several explanations based on mythology and the paranormal, which spoke of monsters and witches that paralyzed their victims in dreams.
Already in the mid-1980s there were 116 cases of Hmong men living in the United States who died of sudden unexpected death syndrome.
After many analyzes and medical follow-up of 3 men of the ethnic group that managed to survive thanks to timely cardiopulmonary resuscitation, it was discovered that these deaths could be caused by ventricular arrhythmias -whose origin was unknown- that led to cardiac arrest.
These people would have suffered hereditary problems, according to a study published by pathologist Roy Gibson in 1988..
The conjuring 2
Although most of us know that Valak did not exist in the true story of the Enfield case, it does not mean that this demon is not real. Valak exists and is not dressed as a nun.
Valak is the great president of hell, he has 30 legions of demons under his command; His appearance is of an innocent child with the wings of an angel, who rides a 2-headed dragon.
He gives you accurate answers about hidden treasures, tells you where you can find snakes and forces them to obey you, is not selfish with their powers so they can share your strength in abundance if you wish. Many sorcerers and fortune hunters are the ones who invoke it, and although it sounds tempting, unfortunately the price you will have to pay could corrupt your soul.
Valak seeks to desecrate genuine church spirits, such as nuns or altar boys
Texas chainsaw
Edward Theodore Gein was a farmer who spent 41 years repressed by the religious fanaticism of his mother, until she died, he could really live the life he wanted, a twisted life full of cruelty, perversity and madness.
Although it is thought that he killed more than 2 people, Edward was only proven the murder of Mary Hogan, the woman he was in love with and Berenice Worden, whose body was found hanging from the ankles, beheaded and opened by the torso.
But another of the brutal sins of Edward was the desecration of corpses, since he opened the graves of recently deceased women, stole them and then remove their skin and create furniture and clothing with it.
The police found human heads, lamps and seats of human skin, dishes made of skull, a heart in a saucepan, a skull for ashtray, a vest formed by the intimate parts of the woman, leather pants, a torso with breasts and masks of human face.
The butcher, as he was named, spent the rest of his days in a psychiatric institution.
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