Scream film was inspired by real serial killer but true story is far more worse

Danny Rolling, aka the Gainesville Ripper, was a serial killer who preyed on university students and his sickening crimes went on to inspire the hit horror film Scream

Few horror films are as iconic as Wes Craven ‘s 1996 slasher-flick Scream, which sees a duo of arranged college students prey on their peers – attacking them while disguised in a Halloween costume. The film starred Courtney Cox, Drew Barrymore, and Neve Campbell, and with the all-star cast you could be mistaken for thinking the movie was purely a work of fiction, but that’s not quite the case.

Kevin Williamson wrote the original screenplay and he was inspired by a spate of killings in Florida by a man named Danny Rolling, who brutally murdered university students and anyone who got in his way. He would later become known as the Gainesville Ripper due to the severity of his crimes, and the drama that unfolded was later portrayed on screen.

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Danny Rolling murdered eight people and was only caught when he was arrested for a different crime and he confessed to the unsolved killings.