Incredible Crime Movies That Were Based On True Events

Wonderland (2003)

Wonderland is a 2003 film starring Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Carrie Fisher and more. Co-written and directed by James Cox, it is based on the real-life unsolved “Wonderland Murders” that occurred in Los Angeles in 1981 in which pornographic film star John Holmes and two others were suspected of committing four grisly murders in an apartment on Wonderland Ave in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. The film received mixed reviews with critic Roger Ebert noting that “True crime procedurals can have a certain fascination, but not when they’re jumbled glimpses of what or what might not have happened involving a lot of empty people whose claim to fame is that they’re dead.”