Andrew Getty spent 15 years making a horror movie, and it ended up killing him. Grandson of oil tycoon, J. Paul Getty, and cousin of John Paul Getty III, who was famously kidnapped and tortured as a 16-year-old boy in 1973, Andrew Getty became haunted by night terrors that were so vivid and horrifying that he decided the only way he could get rid of them was to channel all of his fear into a self-financed horror movie. Beginning in 2002, he spent the next 15 years, and 6 million dollars, meticulously executing his traumatic vision. Ultimately, he would succumb to obsession and tragically die while locked away in his Hollywood mansion editing the film. This is the story of Andrew Getty's descent into obsession, and the bizarre but mezmerizing movie that he made in the process that has gone largely unnoticed by the public.

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