In 1988, he was charged with the sexual abuse of a minor and possession of child pornography, including a recording he made of the abuse. What is known is that Salva himself had a dark past. This mirrors the events of the opening of the movie closely, although there are different stories about whether the writer and director, Victor Salva, knew the story when he began to conceive of the movie. He was eventually caught, but committed suicide before the police could take him in. A year later the case was featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries and Dennis DePue came out of hiding. The pursuit continued until Ray Thorton turned off unto another road and DePue switched directions and went the other way. DePue jumped in his van and followed the Thorntons, getting almost close enough to ram them and honking his horn and flashing his lights.
A random couple drove by the location just as he was hauling it out of his van, but they were unsure of what they saw. He instead shot her in the head and attempted to dump the body behind a nearby church wrapped in a bloody sheet. On Easter 1990, Dennis DePue beat his wife, Marilyn, in front of their three children and left the house with her, telling them he was taking her to a nearby hospital. The idea of the movie was partly inspired by a real life event, although there is nothing supernatural to the story, and some say the connection itself is only an urban legend. When you look into some of the odd details of the movies and the histories of the locations where they were shot, it may get even harder to tell whether the horror story left something behind or whether they were chosen because there was already something dark there. Jeepers Creepers, a 2001 horror hit inspired by true events, may have given birth to several different haunted legends in Florida. The impact of the paranormal on movies might work the other way, although it may be difficult to determine which came first and whether the unexplained experienced in the shadows may just be the normal made paranormal because of the film connected to it.
Part of this is coincidence, part of it may be just the law of large numbers, and part is the marketing of the film to make it come across even more terrifying than it might be. It was famously said movies had the devil or something else dark built into the celluloid. Other worldly interference on films such as the Exorcist and Poltergeist feed off of our fear of their subject matter and make sense to us because audiences understand they are playing with something they shouldn’t or conjuring evil just by starting the discussion. They tend to make more sense when a nice horror movie is at play. Movie curses are nothing new and add something to the enjoyment and mythology of the feature.
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