Trigger films that pushed ordinary people to commit crimes (8 photos)

Cinema is such an inspiring art that thanks to it people decide not only to declare their love or change their lives.





But also to commit crimes. Moreover, what’s strange is that it’s not just horror films or thrillers that push this.



After the release of The Matrix, so many people believed that their life was also a matrix, that some decided to use this fact to their advantage. Like Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad. The pair carried out a series of sniper attacks in the District of Columbia, killing about 20 people and wounding many more. After the arrest, they stubbornly insisted that the murders were not real, since they were carried out in a simulation.





"Breaking Bad" is a popular series about the life of a sick school teacher who turns to drug production. The fictional story of Walter White has inspired many people around the world. So, a resident of Alabama, who identified himself with this character, decided to follow the path of a home-grown drug dealer. Stephen Doran, from whom White seemed to be based, was also detained: Steve worked at a school and also had cancer.



The fantasy drama Twilight has had a variety of influences on teen audiences. Some rushed to look for the same strong love, others began to write stories about the lives of the main and minor characters. But perhaps the boy from Des Moines succeeded most of all. The schoolboy ate more than a dozen people, wanting to feel like a vampire. It is clear that the matter did not go further than the bites, and the failed Edward Cullen went to cool his ardor behind bars.



Patrick Bateman is a gorgeous character from American Psycho. But I would absolutely not want to run into something like this in real life. Meanwhile, in 2004, a boy who was just in his twenties was so inspired by this hero that he began to copy him and literally breathe Bateman. As a result, Michael Hernand took the life of his own classmate. For the murder of yesterday's schoolboy, he was sent to prison for the rest of his life. Which didn’t last too long: Michael passed away last year.



Daniel Gonzalez was not particularly mentally stable from an early age. Therefore, after watching enough horror films “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, he dealt with four people in a few days. Gonzalez managed to pass himself off as a psycho; he screamed during his arrest that he was the real Freddy Krueger. But the killer did not stay in the closed institution for too long and in 2007 he voluntarily died.



A teenage girl was so inspired by the image of the Joker from The Dark Knight that she applied similar makeup to herself and attacked her teacher. She was quickly captured and sent for treatment. There was also a man who started broadcasting in the same war paint, threatening to carry out a series of explosions. Was found and neutralized before its completion.



The actions that not entirely balanced mentally people began to commit after “Fight Club” are also predictable: clubs of various types began to open en masse all over the world. But the climax was the decision of one schoolboy to blow up a coffee shop, to which there are many references in the film. Fortunately, the hapless bomber's idea failed. A certain Luke Helder went further in his madness and planted bombs throughout the country. Explosive devices were placed in mailboxes that formed a smiley face on the map. As a result, several people were injured, and the bomber was sent to a closed medical center, where he remains to this day.