Unfortunately, while the Fireflies are (thankfully) confined to the silver screen, their real life counterparts, The Bender Family–known widely as The Bloody Benders–did in fact exist, terrorizing Cherryvale, Kansas from 1869-1872.

What is Devil's Rejects based on?

While The Devil's Rejects clearly takes inspiration from classic films like Badlands and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rob Zombie looked to a real-life murderous “family” for inspiration as well.

Is House of a 1000 Corpses real?

The house is the same one used in a 1982 musical

But believe it or not, the house is very real, and can actually be found on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood. Even more surprisingly, the house wasn't specifically built for House of 1000 Corpses.