This Blog Was Inspired By True Events

Here's a rule--
If you're movie contains an image like this...

Or, say, a woman throwing up crucifix nails...

...Then you are not allowed to say it is "Inspired by True Events."

I'm pretty certain if an event even closely resembling this happened, I would probably have heard about it. Hell, all this guy did was have a drug habit with a deep voice and I've been hearing about him for weeks.


Horror movies are at their scariest when we believe it could actually happen. That's why films like The Exorcist and Poltergeist continue to haunt me, because they were made to feel "real."

This is also why the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter continues to haunt me. Too Real. Even though I'm succinctly told not to believe it.

Sure, if we're told in The Strangers that it's inspired by a true story, we might actually think Live Tyler still has a career.

That was its message, right?

ANYWAY, so I understand the urge to try to convince an audience that what you're presenting possibly occurred. However, a line needs to be drawn somewhere for what actually "inspired" these events.
The word itself is vague and shadowy. They couldn't say based on true events, because that would present a simulacrum which would hold some weight of reality.
To the layman: Something resembling this ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Hell, anything can be drawn from an inspiration.
Picasso looked at a woman and was inspired to draw her as an aberration with both eyes on one side of the face.

And unless you count my last girlfriend, such things do not exist.