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5.The Dark Knight Rises Is Very Dark

The Dark Knight Rises will always be linked to the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado. However, some conspiracy theorists claim that Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman movie actually foreshadowed James Holmes’s murderous rampage as well as the Sandy Hook shooting.
Three days after Adam Lanza’s shooting spree, YouTube conspiracy theorist “Dahboo7” uploaded a video claiming that signs of a government conspiracy were hidden in The Dark Knight Rises. According to Dahboo7, there’s a skyscraper in the film bearing a sign that reads “Aurora.” Later on, Commissioner Gordon (played by Gary Oldman) is looking at a map of Gotham, and at the bottom-left corner of the map are the words “Sandy Hook.” So what’s going on here? According to Alex Jones’s website Infowars, The Dark Knight Rises was meant to precondition audiences to these massacres, and the shootings themselves were actually ritual sacrifices.
All of this is pretty creepy, but pause Dahboo7’s video and analyze the Aurora Tower. It’s covered in Chinese characters, and no scene in The Dark Knight Rises takes place in China. However, as another conspiracy website points out, a tower bearing the “Aurora” sign does show up in the trailer for Skyfall which actually has scenes in China. Was this YouTube video less than genuine? Or was Daniel Craig also in on the shootings?

4.The Patriot Is A Right-Wing Warning

Most cinematic conspiracy theories deal with hidden Illuminati messages or satanic subtext, but Uri Dowbenko, author of Hoodwinked: Watching Movies with Eyes Wide Open, has a very different interpretation of The Patriot. Instead of claiming that Roland Emmerich’s 2000 war epic contains some sort of evil code, he believes that it’s actually a warning straight from Mel Gibson to Big Brother.
The Patriot revolves around Gibson’s Benjamin Martin, a peaceful man who finds himself drawn into the American Revolution after British troops murder his son. Armed with a musket and a hatchet, Martin launches a campaign of guerilla warfare against the redcoats. According to Dowbenko, Martin’s war against the British army depicts what will happen if the government ever tries to disarm the American people. He also claims that when British troops murder innocent Americans, it’s symbolic of tragedies such as the Waco siege. Evidently, The Patriot is a warning shot, declaring that the American people won’t sit by and let the Illuminati take over. As Mel Gibson said in some other movie, you can take away their lives, but you’ll never take their freedom.

3.Labyrinth Is About Mind Control

It’s well known that from 1953 to 1975 the American government experimented with mind control through its notorious MK-ULTRA project. So if they’ve done it once, they might do it again, right? Enter Monarch Programming. Named after the metamorphosis of a butterfly, Monarch Programming is supposedly used to create brainwashed slaves. By using extreme torture methods, secret agencies can create sleeper agents like Sirhan Sirhan. But the torture isn’t just physical. Conspiracy theorists claim that handlers use movies to screw with their slaves’ minds—movies like Labyrinth.
Labyrinth follows a young girl named Sarah (played by Jennifer Connelly) who navigates through a dangerous labyrinth in order to rescue her baby brother from the clutches of Jareth the Goblin King (played by David Bowie’s codpiece). According to conspiracy theorists, Sarah’s kidnapped brother represents her “core persona,” which is controlled by her handler. Her quest through the labyrinth thus symbolizes her programming. Along the way, Sarah goes through traumatic episodes designed to break her will. She meets the Fire Gang, a band of monsters who want to rip her head off. This symbolizes a slave’s “dissociation from reality.” Later, she must go through the bog of “Eternal Stench,” a smelly swamp that obviously represents the torture technique of dunking slaves in feces. Finally, after eating an enchanted peach (which represents drugs — duh), she imagines herself in a masquerade (Illuminati) ball which she can only escape after shattering a mirror, a symbol of her fractured personality.
(Spoilers) After returning home with her brother, Sarah is sad she left her friends behind in the labyrinth. She decides she still needs them in her life, and then they magically appear in her room. Sarah and her Muppet buddies dance the night away, signifying that Sarah has accepted Jareth’s programming. She’s now a monarch slave who’s eventually going to assassinate someone.
And you thought The Dark Crystal was grim.

2.Cannibal Holocaust Was A Snuff Film

Conspiracy theories rarely leave the realms of Internet chat rooms, YouTube videos, and late-night talk shows.  But conspiracy theories sometimes end up having real-world repercussions, and the prosecution of Ruggero Deodato for his role in creating Cannibal Holocaust is a perfect example.    Holocaust is one of the most controversial films of all time thanks to its depictions of torture, gang-rape, and castration.  The movie also shows the actual killings of animals, including a monkey, a pig, and a turtle.  Obviously, it’s a bad pick for family movie night.
The Italian government seized Cannibal Holocaust after its release and arrested Deodato on obscenity charges.  However, Deodato was in trouble for a lot more than just making torture porn.  Holocaust contains a scene where a woman is impaled on a stake, and the special effects were so realistic that Deodato was suspected of murdering his cast members.  The director was then forced to explain what really happened on set: Deodato convinced the government of his innocence by bringing one of his “murdered” actors to court and by explaining the impalement scene.  The girl had been sitting on a bicycle seat that was fastened to a pole while holding a piece of wood in her mouth.  The court was satisfied, and Deodato was free to go, but his film wasn’t.  Cannibal Holocaust was banned in nearly 40 countries, but it went on to influence directors like Quentin Tarantino and kick-start the found-footage horror genre.

1.The Shining Is About The Apollo 11 Moon Landings

Some folks say that Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is about a lot more than just a guy with bad parenting skills. Some claim it’s really about the Holocaust, while others say that Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is really a Minotaur. However, the craziest theory comes from the mind of Jay Weidner. According to Mr. Weidner, The Shining is really about how Stanley Kubrick faked the Apollo moon landings. It’s a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory!
The story goes that the American government asked Kubrick to fake the Apollo 11 moon landings in order to intimidate the Soviet Union. After filming Neil Armstrong moonwalk across a Hollywood set, Kubrick realized he’d become an expendable accessory and was now in danger. So to protect himself and his family, he filled The Shining with clues about the conspiracy. For example, Jack Torrance agrees to watch over the Overlook Hotel during the winter just like Kubrick agreed to help America during the Cold War.
Also, The Shining is based on a Stephen King novel. In King’s book, the infamous haunted room is number 217. However, in the film, it’s room 237. Why did Kubrick change the number? Because the distance from the Earth to the moon is 237,000 miles! Actually, the distance is really 238,857, but we’re rounding down here for some reason.
Weidner also claims that the creepy guy in a bear suit (it’s actually a dog) represents Soviet Russia, and he notes that Danny Torrance is wearing an Apollo 11 sweater. Finally, the phrase “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is really a code. The word “all” is really “A11” which is short for Apollo 11. There’s so much evidence here it points to just one thing: that Jay Weidner has seen The Shining way too many times.