Some of Netflix’s most popular shows are real-crime docu-series and American Nightmare looks like it’s going to be another doozy. It’s a story much like the Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike mystery-thriller movie Gone Girl which coincidently was released just two months before the crimes depicted in American Nightmare. Could the movie have inspired the real-life mystery? Hopefully, Netflix will tell us.
It’s a twisted story that begins on March 23, 2015, in Northern California. Thirty-year-old physical therapist Aaron Quinn (pictured above left) called police claiming that wetsuit-wearing intruders infiltrated his home the night prior and kidnapped his girlfriend Denise Huskins (pictured above right). The reason for his 24-hour delay in calling the authorities, he claims, is because the kidnappers drugged him and were surveilling the house via CCTV.
Quinn’s integrity came into question after he failed a polygraph but strangely an audio file surfaced with Denise’s voice saying she had indeed been abducted. To complicate matters, Denise was eventually found in Huntington Beach at her father’s residence. She corroborated Quinn’s story, saying that she had been sexually assaulted.
We aren’t going to give away spoilers about how this case ends, but it’s definitely a twisted tale of revenge and gaslighting.
Watch the trailer below, and let us know if you will be watching American Nightmare when in premieres on Netflix on January 17.