Horror Movies That Inspired Real Life Crimes

The Saw franchise, like the others on this list, inspired incredibly young teenagers to commit the most malicious of crimes. Fortunately, sometimes things did not turn out exactly as they wanted, but one of these incidents did almost claim someone’s life. The first event was in 2007, when two 13-year-old girls decided to prank call a woman to tell her that one of her friends was locked in her house, and that she had 10 minutes to find her before she would be murdered. The victim of the prank, Beverly Dickson, panicked so badly that she experienced a massive stroke with lifelong consequences. Two years later, two teenagers from Salt Lake City attempted to plot a scheme to torture three victims, but fortunately, the mother of one of them discovered the plan and reported them to the police before it was too late.