Halloween Special: The 'True Story' of The Hills Have Eyes | Fascinating Horror

For Halloween, I wanted to try something a little different. I love horror movies - and this video is a short look at the true (or not so true) story behind the legendary horror film "The Hills Have Eyes". Happy Halloween!

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*LINKS:* 🔗

*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:52 - The Hills Have Eyes
► 02:45 - The Tale of Sawney Bean
► 06:55 - Is it a True Story?

*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

*SOURCES:* 📑

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[FascinatingHorror]

Hope you enjoy this Halloween special. And, if you do, let me know what other horror movies that are "based on a true story" I could look at for next year!

[korbell]

"They were unfit to stand trial."

magistrate: "So, we'll just skip right to the execution!"

[Faris_V]

I have to say your knack for avoiding over-dramatizing stuff fits really well with folklore like this. Felt like a nice summary of such an old story, especially focusing more on the legacy rather than if it was real or not. I'd definitely watch more if you were testing the waters with this at all.

[muchasgracias]

"The women were burned". So they became, erm...baked Beans?

[petadewar]

I've been in Sawney Bean's cave! It was very spacious, it could have housed 45 people. I didn't stay long, because I've seen too many horror movies but it wasn't too spooky. It had a lovely view of Ailsa Craig, a granite island where they used to quarry stone to make curling stones.

[Dreenaxx]

Something else to note: when Irish and Scottish settlers came to America between 1500-1700s, many settled in the Appalachian mountains. There are many similar legends in Appalachia about incest, cannibalism, and people living in caves. To this day, people are warned of spooky things that happen in the forests and hills of Appalachia

[ayyyitscookie]

fun fact: in Attack on Titan, Hange names her two captive titans Sawney and Beane

[kanivea]

1:22 "Following horror movie convention..."
That was perfect. Had me rolling.

[Cyphyxia]

As a scot myself i grew up learning of the legend of sawney bean and his incestuous family. Please do more of these videos even the nightmare on elm street has some real life inspiration

[merri-toddwebster]

The Donners could have told them: Never take the shortcut....

[Runeinc]

As a Edinburgh native, I can only say the Bean clan seems like your average East Lothian lot.

[honeybadgerdontcare]

I’ve never really heard much about The Hills Have Eyes, except the title, but I now understand why the two titans Hange captures in Attack on Titan were named Sawney and Bean.

[htosav]

The reason it didn't "hit" in '77 was that was smack dab in the middle of a movie release called "A New Hope: IV" (Star Wars), it was popular.

[sanvobun]

really appreciate how you cover how it might not even be real instead of sensationalizing the story like other channels sometimes do

[MsSteelphoenix]

I'm not a horror-movie kind of person (nightmares!) but hearing how stories evolve is fascinating stuff. Excellent video.

[ezzyfan]

Happy Halloween from Australia, Fascinating Horror! Thank you for this treat 🎉

[toddabowden]

Still best intro / background music ever

[BennyLlama]

I would say *Banjo music intensifies* but being Scotland, it's *Bagpipe music intensifies.* 😀

[theinventor]

As someone who was born and grew up in Ayrshire, South West Scotland, the story is supposed to be based there, near Turnberry Hotel. This is not really a really a busy area then or now, so I have difficulty believing that anyone could amass 5000 bodies. So I suspect like the story it has all been made up. Nevertheless, the Scottish tourist board down there has made the Sawney Bean cave a macabre tourist spot. I remember reading that the story apparently also gave the idea for the 'Sweeny Todd', The butchering barber in London as well.

[horrido]

This folktale was used to influence British popular opinion against the Scotts. What type of people could spawn a savage clan like this, is how the propaganda worked.