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Warning: the following story contains graphic details concerning a real-life murder case.
"Scream" is easily one of the best - if not the best - slasher movies of all time. Wes Craven's 1996 horror flick cuts the perfect balance between gory scares and black comedy, and the franchise solidified a young Neve Campbell's status as the reigning scream queen of the '90s. The film has spawned five sequels so far, and "Scream 6" - which hit theaters on March 10, 2023 - features a fresh cast of young victims tasked with fending off Ghostface. While the masked murderers who terrorize the unlucky characters in the Scream franchise are fictional, there's another, even more disturbing layer to the story that has roots in reality: "Scream" was inspired by a rash of real-life murders committed by a serial killer in Gainesville, Fl.
Danny Rolling wasn't from the tight-knit Florida college town,...
Warning: the following story contains graphic details concerning a real-life murder case.
"Scream" is easily one of the best - if not the best - slasher movies of all time. Wes Craven's 1996 horror flick cuts the perfect balance between gory scares and black comedy, and the franchise solidified a young Neve Campbell's status as the reigning scream queen of the '90s. The film has spawned five sequels so far, and "Scream 6" - which hit theaters on March 10, 2023 - features a fresh cast of young victims tasked with fending off Ghostface. While the masked murderers who terrorize the unlucky characters in the Scream franchise are fictional, there's another, even more disturbing layer to the story that has roots in reality: "Scream" was inspired by a rash of real-life murders committed by a serial killer in Gainesville, Fl.
Danny Rolling wasn't from the tight-knit Florida college town,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
E! and Oxygen Revisit: How the Gainesville Ripper Was Finally Caught After His Gruesome Murder Spree
Read part one of E! and Oxygen's two-part series here Over the course of four days in August 1990, five college students were murdered in Gainesville, Fla. Christina Powell and roommate Sonya Larson were incoming freshmen who never made it to their first week of classes at the University of Florida. Christa Hoyt attended Santa Fe Community College and worked nights as a records clerk for the Alachua County Sheriff's Office, hoping to go into law enforcement herself one day. Manuel Taboada was transferring from Sfcc to Uf, wanting to study architecture. And Tracy Paules, his friend since high school, was a pre-law senior at Uf. The crime scenes were gruesome, the victims all stabbed to death...
- 10/16/2021
- E! Online
Upon its release in the tail end of 1996, Scream redefined slasher films. Many subsequent flicks were inspired by the metafictional approach of having characters aware of movie tropes, reinvigorating a subgenre that was viewed as tired and repetitive, and sparking interest in further sequels from its tiring franchises. Less commonly known though is that the movie was inspired by the crimes of a real-life serial killer.
When writer Kevin Williamson was watching documentary series Turning Point, he came across an episode about Daniel Harold Rolling, a paraphiliac killer who became known as the Gainesville Ripper.
On August 24th, 1990, Rolling broke into the apartment of 17-year-old university students Sonja Larson and Christina Powell. Finding Christina asleep on the couch, he instead went upstairs and discovered Sonja in her bedroom, whereupon he taped her mouth shut, tied her hands behind her back and stabbed her to death. Returning to Christina, he secured her in the same way,...
When writer Kevin Williamson was watching documentary series Turning Point, he came across an episode about Daniel Harold Rolling, a paraphiliac killer who became known as the Gainesville Ripper.
On August 24th, 1990, Rolling broke into the apartment of 17-year-old university students Sonja Larson and Christina Powell. Finding Christina asleep on the couch, he instead went upstairs and discovered Sonja in her bedroom, whereupon he taped her mouth shut, tied her hands behind her back and stabbed her to death. Returning to Christina, he secured her in the same way,...
- 5/21/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
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