| What makes it worse the Lifetime film actually glosses over a lot what they poor woman went through | |
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| And in this particular case, how could he possibly get away with it for so long? Thanks to Sebastian Dungan who developed the project and believed in the story from the start | 13 people found this helpful |
But years later, they became friends and see each other often, according to The Independent.
| In the real life horror, Josef Fritzl admitted to holding his daughter captive in their Amstetten home after she escaped, | The horror film Girl in the Basement tells the horrific story of Sara, a vibrant teen girl who was looking forward to her 18th birthday so she could move away from her controlling father, Don |
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| The movie is set in a town in the United States, instead of Austria | The Fritzl case emerged in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl told police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl |
While Don tries to convince wife Irene Joely Fisher that Sara ran away, he would secretly visit her in the basement to torture and rape her while Irene and her sister Amy Emily Topper continued living upstairs.
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