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''And so I went to see the movie so that I, too, could ascertain that unspeakable atrocities had occurred in the 17th Century. I didn't want to be the only member of my generation unaware of the terrible events of 1634, a year that will live in infamy. Like everyone who's committed, I found it my duty to bear witness against the moral outrages of, if not my time, then at least somebody's time. You can't just sit around.''|'''[[Roger Ebert]]'''<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID{{=}}/19710101/REVIEWS/101010305/1023 review] of ''[[The Devils]]''</ref> }}▼
▲And so I went to see the movie so that I, too, could ascertain that unspeakable atrocities had occurred in the 17th Century. I didn't want to be the only member of my generation unaware of the terrible events of 1634, a year that will live in infamy. Like everyone who's committed, I found it my duty to bear witness against the moral outrages of, if not my time, then at least somebody's time. You can't just sit around.'' }}
''From the director of a long list of exploitation films, comes the tasteless but true story behind [[But You Screw One Goat!|donkey shows]].''
Originally [[Dramatization]] of a story [[Ripped
This really is a nasty trope. Writers claiming
Note that this trope is used for when the horror and nastiness in real life stories is portrayed as it is in order to titillate, not when it is used to serve as a warning so that this doesn't happen again, or when victims tell their stories of how they have suffered when they are asking for help. ▼
▲This really is a nasty trope. Writers claiming [[But It Really Happened]] put out anything they like, and anyone who criticizes is accused of being naive and wanting to nanny the public, shielding them from the truth. However, telling the truth is not synonymous with dwelling on the graphic details. To paraphrase a reporter at the time of the "House of Horror" case (a revolting serial-killing in England), we don't need to know exactly what was done to whom with which dildo. They could tell us the facts but spare us the gory details, but that wouldn't sell as many books or papers, would it?
Many of these works will preface it with some version of a [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]] to give themselves more legitimacy.
▲Note that this trope is used for when the horror and nastiness in real life stories is portrayed as it is in order to titillate, not when it is used to serve as a warning so that this doesn't happen again, or when victims tell their stories of how they have suffered when they are asking for help.
See also [[Roman
If a work of fiction ''claims'' to be something that really happened, this is the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] or [[Based
{{examples|When [[Dramatization]] goes too far, you get works like these:}}
== [[Film]] ==
* Stories about concentration camps where the torture and degradation are presented to titillate. Prime example: ''[[Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS]],'' which is [[Very Loosely Based
* This happens pretty much any time the [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]] is [[Based
* Averted by the film ''In the Light of the Moon''. Despite telling the story of one of the most widely referenced murderers in recent history, the movie doesn't spend much time wallowing in the disturbing details of Ed Gein's crimes, instead focusing on the utterly deranged mind that perpetrated them. Yes, you see some of what he did, but not much, and certainly not enough to titillate, as it were.
** ''Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield'' is the exact opposite.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Back in the days of whipping up anti-Catholic hysteria, confessions of cloistered nuns, both as pamphlets and public lectures were common. Actually they tended to be [[Very Loosely Based
** And were reused in the [[Chick Tract]] "Alberto" series.
* True crime magazines, dating back to the ''[[Newgate Calendar]]''.
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*** Real oubliettes incidentally don't usually have a door, or have one built later when the room's purpose was changed for something less sinister (many ex-oubliettes were converted into gunpowder storages). People were lowered down to them through a trapdoor.
** Two words: Torture Museums.
*** A good example, as the claims of real life use of some of the [[
* Most news stories about murders or suspected murders, and not just in the tabloids (meaning "trashy news sources" in this case). However, these days telling tabloids from "mainstream" news organizations takes a microscope and several days' research.
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