Silent Screams: 5 horror Korean films You Didn’t know Based on True Events

Belinda Ward
4 min readSep 29, 2024
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Discovering the terrifying stories of horror movie in real life

Silent Screams reveals how real-life horror tales of events have spawned terrifying on-screen narratives. Every movie exposes the darkness that lies just beneath the surface, where words don’t always have the same impact as silence. Get ready to face the darkness that follows the true events of each film.

(1.) The Black House “(2007)

Real-Life Inspiration: The Japanese book on which Black House is based, as well as actual insurance fraud incidents that occurred in Korea and Japan, served as the basis for the story. Extreme methods, including murder, were frequently used in these fraud instances in order to get life insurance benefits. There have been well-known cases in both nations when people faked or killed family members in order to collect insurance benefits, which made life insurance policies unpopular with the general public.

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