Behind the Screams
Psycho, The Exorcist and The Silence of the Lambs are some of the most terrifying horror movies ever put on screen but the shocking reality is these movies were inspired by actual events. Behind the Screams presents these iconic images of horror-a young boy gripped by demonic possession, an axe-murderer chasing a teen through the woods-and pulls back the curtain to reveal the real story. From serial killers to documented paranormal encounters, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and each one-hour episode examines the hair-raising true incidents that sparked some of the most gripping big screen stories.
- 2015-2015
- 1 season
- ReelzChannel
- Documentary
- TV-14
Psycho, The Exorcist and The Silence of the Lambs are some of the most terrifying horror movies ever put on screen but the shocking reality is these movies were inspired by actual events. Behind the Screams presents these iconic images of horror-a young boy gripped by demonic possession, an axe-murderer chasing a teen through the woods-and pulls back the curtain to reveal the real story. From serial killers to documented paranormal encounters, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and each one-hour episode examines the hair-raising true incidents that sparked some of the most gripping big screen stories.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2015
Episode 1
A Real Psycho
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 44 mins
The series begins with the inspiration for Psycho (1960) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Ed Gein, a deranged killer, from rural Wisconsin, who admitted to murdering two women.
Episode 2
Handsome Devil
Sat, Oct 3, 2015 44 mins
A profile of serial killer Ted Bundy, who was executed in Florida on January 24, 1989.
Episode 3
The Real Clown Killer
Sat, Oct 10, 2015
The story of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who killed at least 33 young men and boys, between 1972 and 1978, and buried many of the bodies in the crawl space, beneath his suburban Chicago house. He was executed on May 10, 1994.
Episode 4
Satan Inside Me
Sat, Oct 17, 2015 44 mins
The true story that inspired The Exorcist (1973) is related.
Episode 5
Witches Among Us
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 44 mins
The story that inspired The Conjuring (2013), about a family that moved into a Rhode Island farmhouse, that was allegedly haunted.
Episode 6
Alien Invasion
Sat, Oct 31, 2015 44 mins
An alien abduction in Turkey Springs, Arizona, that inspired the film Fire In the Sky.