what true events was the movie the strangers based on
Asker's rating. 1  The Strangers True Story. 2  The Strangers True Events. 3  When a film says it's inspired by a true story, it isn't necessarily true. 4  This is a true story. 5  The Strangers has as much to do with a true story as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre has to do with Ed Gein. The Strangers is simply a film inspired by murderers that have, at some point in the known history of man, randomly selected a house with whose residents they would then kill.