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Ryan Murphy Is Back At It Again With Trauma Fest “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”

After Dahmer became one of Netflix’s most-watched but most controversial shows, Ryan Murphy’s second installment, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is getting mixed reviews. (And What Does Kim Kardashian have to do with it?)

One thing about Ryan Murphy, he’s going to try to make true crime sexy. From Glee to tackling the world of true crime, Murphy has a lot of awards under his belt — for better or for worse. After his highly acclaimed American Crime Story series, which included the incredibly done The People vs OJ Simpson and the Darren Chris epic of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, he hit big with Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

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Orphan

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Normally, we think of horror movies as based on true events, not the other way around.

But on a number of occasions, horror movies have actually inspired or predicted real-life occurrences.

While the vast majority of violent events occur without the influence of movies, and while most people who watch scary movies do not become violent afterwards, every once in awhile, life really does imitate art. Here are eight terrifying and gory examples of times that scary movies crept their way into reality.

1. The Orphan

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Natalia Grace

The tale of Natalia Grace, the girl with dwarfism abandoned by her adoptive parents, has been all over the news lately. According to Natalia's parents, the 9-year-old they believed they adopted was actually a 22-year-old, sociopathic adult woman. Doctors have apparently been unable to determine her actual age.

If this story sounds familiar, you might be thinking of the 2009 film Orphan, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. In that film, a 9-year-old adopted child named Esther is revealed to be...a wicked, sociopathic 33-year-old woman with dwarfism.