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From cursed film sets to hidden messages, horror cinema is full of unsettling theories. Join us as we delve into the most bone-chilling conspiracy theories surrounding your favorite horror films! What dark secrets lurk behind the camera? Some of these theories are more disturbing than the movies themselves.
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00:00I'm telling you, the dad's a red herring, it's Billy.
00:05How do we know you're not the killer?
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 horror movie conspiracy theories.
00:13What's the boogeyman?
00:20As a matter of fact, it was.
00:25Number 10. The paranormal activity movies are real.
00:28Number 10. Paranormal Activity Franchise.
00:31Remember back when the Blair Witch Project came out and everybody thought it was real footage?
00:36Well, here's that again, only this time in conspiracy theory version.
00:52The theory goes that the footage in the paranormal activity movies is actually genuine.
00:57You see, the director and the producer of the first film, Oren Peli, apparently made a deal with the demon we see, or don't see, on screen.
01:06He filmed its hauntings and showed them to the world, thereby scaring millions and increasing the demon's power.
01:19In return, Peli was obviously made a very rich man.
01:23Indeed, as of 2021's Next of Kin, the franchise has grossed just under $900 million.
01:29And that's just box office figures.
01:32That's not true at all. You know it.
01:35Well, get over it.
01:36Number 9. Michael Myers is a tethered Halloween franchise and us.
01:41It's once upon a time.
01:52Leave it to Reddit to come up with the most outlandish, yet surprisingly plausible theories.
01:57One user believes that the universes of Halloween and us are connected.
02:01Much like Adelaide, the real Michael Myers was replaced with his underground doppelganger on Halloween night.
02:13This explains why Michael doesn't speak.
02:15But wait, it gets even better.
02:18You think they kept him down here?
02:20Maybe.
02:21Look at this.
02:23What?
02:25What is it?
02:27Some sort of weird harness.
02:30In Halloween Resurrection, it's established that a large tunnel system runs just underneath the Myers house.
02:37The entire plot of Us revolves around a secret underground tunnel system.
02:41It's entirely possible that Michael's doppelganger made its way up to the surface through the basement, just as fake Adelaide made her way up during the carnival.
02:51Also, those coveralls? Come on.
02:54Why the hell you dress like me anyway?
02:56I ain't telling you to be Michael Myers.
02:58I'm playing Michael Myers.
03:00If them kids come around and see us just up in the same ship, you're gonna ruin the whole effect.
03:06God damn it.
03:07The hell is wrong with you?
03:08Number 8. Peter's friend was in the cult.
03:12Hereditary.
03:13This classic from Ari Aster is about a cult that worships the demon Paimon and wishes to grant his spirit a corporeal body.
03:22Hail Paimon!
03:25Audiences are only given very brief glances into the mysterious cult, and even then, they're mostly relegated to the climax.
03:33But what if it's not just the ending?
03:36What if they were actually everywhere the whole time?
03:39One Redditor spotted something interesting.
03:42One of the men bowing at Peter's feet has long, dark hair.
03:46One of Peter's friends also has long, dark hair.
03:50I think I'm having some, like, reaction.
03:53What?
03:53My throat is, I think my throat is getting hurt.
03:56This friend was probably a cult member, and slipped Peter some type of herb into the weed to prepare him for the upcoming ceremony.
04:05Just as Joan did for Annie.
04:07How was your relationship with your son?
04:11Peter?
04:12Number 7. Sarah is the killer.
04:14The Descent.
04:15This movie from Neil Marshall throws viewers a wicked curveball.
04:20It begins as a realistic thriller about a group of friends who get lost spelunking, but it eventually turns into a slasher with bloodthirsty monsters.
04:28Hello!
04:29But what if there are no monsters?
04:37What if Sarah was the real monster all along?
04:41Sarah suffers a horrible tragedy at the beginning of the movie, when her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident.
04:48Then she goes spelunking with her friends and kills them all in a descent into madness.
04:53You can get dehydration, disorientation, claustrophobia, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations.
05:03Characters explicitly mention the hallucinations and delusions that spelunkas can experience.
05:09So it's entirely possible that Sarah was envisioning the crawlers when really it was just her all along.
05:17Number 6. The Torrents' were subjects of MKUltra, The Shining.
05:27Many horror theories revolve around characters losing their minds.
05:30It helps explain the otherworldly events that occur throughout the movie.
05:34Hello, Danny.
05:41Come play with us.
05:43This theory claims that the Torrents family are the tragic subjects of an MKUltra experiment.
05:49For those who don't know, MKUltra was an illegal program conducted by the CIA primarily in the 50s and 60s.
05:57They attempted to brainwash test subjects through various methods of torture and by feeding them LSD.
06:03That is quite a story.
06:06This theory posits that Bill Watson and Stuart Ullman work for the CIA and use the Overlook during its off-season to conduct MKUltra experiments.
06:26The Torrents' are their unwilling puppets, and it leads to bizarre experiences and rapid mental deterioration.
06:33Number 5. Kurt is working with the facility.
06:44The cabin in the woods.
06:46It's hard to picture Chris Hemsworth as the bad guy, but we might have seen it without realising.
06:51Do you want to spend the weekend in jail?
06:53Because we'd all like to check out my cousin's country home.
06:56Kurt is the one who leads the gang to the cabin.
06:58He's the only one who picks two summoning items in the basement.
07:01He takes Jules outside so that she can be the first one to die, as ordered by the facility.
07:08This isn't right, we should split up.
07:11We can cover more ground that way.
07:13Yeah.
07:16Yeah, a good idea.
07:19Really?
07:19He immediately reverses when the tunnel blows, almost as if he was expecting it to happen.
07:25Is it possible that Kurt was working with the facility all along?
07:29His death is also curious.
07:40Maybe he was double-crossed, but you know the rules.
07:43If we don't see a body, they're not actually dead.
07:47Maybe it was all a trick to make the gang think he was dead.
07:51I don't think Kurt even has a cousin.
07:57Huh.
07:58Number 4.
07:59Time travel.
08:01The Blair Witch Project.
08:02I would love to hear this right now.
08:04I really would.
08:05I'm just trying to say that, you know, we have to...
08:08I know.
08:09...rationally say they might very well go on forever compared to our footsteps.
08:13This movie leaves a lot unanswered, and it's led to countless fan theories throughout the years.
08:19One involves time travel.
08:22The evidence of this isn't found in the movie itself, but in the supplementary material.
08:27We walked for 15 hours today.
08:29We ended up in the same place.
08:31There's no one here to help you.
08:33That's your motivation.
08:34The movie's original website claimed that all the camera equipment was found under the foundation of the house.
08:40Furthermore, the promotional film Curse of the Blair Witch claims that the house that Heather and Mike find themselves in burned down back in the 40s.
08:50Lastly, Heather is briefly seen in the video game Blair Witch Vol. 1 Rustin Park, which takes place in 1941.
08:59All evidence points to the characters going back in time once they enter the mystical woods.
09:04When was the last time you saw us?
09:06Uh, earlier this afternoon.
09:10I'm not lying.
09:12It's been five days since we saw you.
09:14Number three, Roman was in the first Scream.
09:17Scream.
09:18This slasher managed to make the tired slasher genre new again.
09:22It did so through some clever meta humor and the unique twist of having two killers.
09:26Billy Loomis and Stu Morker.
09:29Surprise, Sydney.
09:35Scream 3 reveals that this was all orchestrated by Roman Bridger.
09:39It was like he was making a movie.
09:41You.
09:43This is all because of you.
09:46I'm a director, Syd.
09:50I direct.
09:51We don't know if this was retconned or planned from the beginning, but there are some clues that Roman was in the first Scream.
09:58A ghost face stalks Sydney and Tatum while Billy and Stu are at the video store.
10:04On the night of Casey's killing, Billy was with Sydney and Stu was supposedly with Tatum.
10:10Yeah, it was.
10:11Finally, when ghost face appears in the grocery store, his reflection can be seen over a product called Romantica.
10:19Was that a subtle nod to Roman's inclusion?
10:23Roman?
10:24It was Roman?
10:26Number two, Kevin McAllister grew up to be Jigsaw.
10:30Home Alone and Saw franchise.
10:32I want to play a game.
10:33We like to picture Kevin McAllister growing up to live a happy life with his extended family.
10:39Maybe even giving Buzz the odd brotherly handshake every now and then.
10:43But we're optimistic.
10:45This theory posits that Kevin actually grew up with serious mental problems and eventually turned into the Jigsaw Killer.
10:52Yes, I'm sick, officer.
10:54Taps!
10:55Like, so is it easier?
10:57Sick from the disease eating away at me inside.
11:00Sick of people who don't appreciate their blessings.
11:03Sick of those who scoff at the suffering of others.
11:06The obvious connection is their shared love of traps, but it goes a little deeper than that.
11:11Kevin reacts with violence upon witnessing the pizza injustice.
11:16He gleefully torments the delivery boy with fake gunshots.
11:19His traps are incredibly malicious, and they have serious potential to kill the burglars.
11:27You guys give up, or you're thirsty for more?
11:30Seems like Kevin has some bottled up issues that are just waiting to be unleashed.
11:37Game over!
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11:58Number 1. Samuel Loomis is in Psycho.
12:02Halloween and Psycho.
12:04Halloween is a classic, not just for what it brought to the table, but for the iconic characters that inhabit it.
12:11Maybe the best of all is Dr. Samuel Loomis, who's played to perfection by Donald Pleasance.
12:16I have the feeling that you're way off on this.
12:18You have the wrong feeling.
12:20According to this theory, the character also appeared in Psycho.
12:24Marion, whenever it's possible, I want to see you.
12:27And under any circumstances, even respectability.
12:31Marion's boyfriend is named Sam Loomis, and it's Sam who eventually catches Norman.
12:36Maybe he was so influenced by his dealings with Norman that he studied psychology,
12:41became a psychiatrist, and turned into the Dr. Samuel Loomis, who dedicates his life to studying Michael.
12:48I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes.
13:02Yeah, he's certainly aged a lot between 1960 and 1978, but hey, studying serial killers for a living tends to age a man.
13:11What's the boogeyman?
13:18As a matter of fact, it was.
13:22Did you agree with any of these?
13:23Let us know in the comments below.
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