15 Creators Who Were Inspired by Their Own Fears and Nightmares

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15 Creators Who Were Inspired by Their Own Fears and Nightmares

“Where do they get these ideas?” you cry as you try to hide from the screen (or, alternatively, cringe at the lame attempt to scare you). Well, you know how in movies some guy says his name is John after seeing a urinal? Creators work essentially like that -- often, when they want to scare you, they show you something that scared them once. Does it work? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. We’ll let you decide which is which on this list.

JAMES WAN saw Poltergeist when he was very young, and the movie scarred for life with its creepy dolls. Billy the Puppet in Saw? The scary Annabelle in The Conjuring? Those all come from that childhood movie experience.

Source: Vulture

H. P. LOVECRAFT was afraid of a laundry list of stuff (including foreigners)- --but something recurring in his work is people losing their minds. That might be related to the fact that his father was committed to a psychiatric hospital, and Lovecraft feared what this might mean for his own sanity.

Source: HeadStuff

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