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The horror stories behind OUR SCARIEST MOVIES!

Psycho

1960 Inspired by infamous serial killer Ed Gein, Psycho set the benchmark for every horror that followed. Sadly, the actress who appeared as Janet Leigh’s body double and provided the voice of Norman

Bates’ mother, was murdered years later. Myra Davis, 71, was found dead in her LA home in 1988. Her killer, Kenneth Dean Hunt, was convicted in 2001 after he strangled another woman in 1998.

The Exorcism Of Emily Rose

2005 During the making

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