Is Terror in the Woods a True Story? The real-life horror incident explained

Terror in Woods is a 2018 horror movie that follows two twelve-year-old girls who kill ir friend as a blood sacrifice to internet legend, Suzerain. film h opened to mixed reviews but was named by fans as ir worst nightmare. For a horror movie, that sounds like a pretty good compliment. For an avid horror watcher, premise of movie will sound eerily similar to ar horror classic. Here's everything you need to kw about Terror in Woods.

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Is Terror in Woods a true story?

Terror in Woods is based on a true story of a real-life terror incident that took place in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. According to ABC News, back in 2014, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lured ir friend Payton Leutner into thinking y're going off on an venture and murdered her in woods by stabbing her 19 times, thinking that this act will make m proxies of demon Slender Man.

Apparently, y were inspired by story Slender Man that was published online on a horror website called Creepypasta. Fortunately, twelve-year-old Payton revealed to have h survived stabbing and somehow crawled her way out of woods. A biker named Greg Steinberg found her soon after and called 911 for help. As per Chicago Tribune, Anissa and Morgan were found on an interstate ramp as y were trying to locate Slender Man; y were n arrested and charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide.

As for movie, Terror in Woods follows same premise with Anissa, Morgan and Payton w named as Rachel, Kaitlyn and Emily respectively. reason behind ir gruesome act has been given a saner outlook, with m trying to protect ir families from demon's curse as opposed to following demon. While Slender Man movie took same approach as real-life incident and h earned negative reviews for it, Terror in Woods seems to have taken some tes and cooked a different story with bits of reminiscing factor. movie has been open about taking artistic liberties and avoided copy-pastes keeping in mind legal consequences. Watch trailer here:

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