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Movies: Best "urban legend" Movies


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Dead Silence(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 985 votes)

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

Candyman(2021)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 645 votes)

Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green. After a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.

The Blair Witch Project(1999)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 21min | Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 2,214 votes)

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

Chupa(2023)

3.2/5 (with 148 votes)

While visiting family in Mexico, a lonely boy befriends a mythical creature hiding on his grandfather's ranch and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,184 votes)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Slender Man(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 871 votes)

In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.

Directed by Sylvain White - With Joey King

Urban Legends: Final Cut(2000)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 202 votes)

The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.

The Mothman Prophecies(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 59min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 475 votes)

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

The Bye Bye Man(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 36min | Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 578 votes)

When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Candyman(1992)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 662 votes)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

House of 1000 Corpses(2003)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 29min | Horror, Crime
3.1/5 (with 707 votes)

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

The Hills Run Red(2009)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 21min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 117 votes)

A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.

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Don't Knock Twice(2016)

1h 33min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 339 votes)

A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

The Legend of the Chupacabras(2016)

3.6/5 (with 59 votes)

Leo San Juan and his team of "ghostbusters" continue with their adventures, this time fighting against the mexican monster himself: "El Chupacabras".

Directed by Alberto "Chino" Rodríguez

Ring(1998)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 36min | Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 582 votes)

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

Urban Legend(1998)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 551 votes)

A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh(1995)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 150 votes)

The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher. Her father was killed by the Candyman, and brother wrongly accused of the murders.

The Philadelphia Experiment(1984)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 42min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 160 votes)

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

The Midnight Man(2016)

1h 35min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 182 votes)

A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.

Directed by Travis Zariwny - With Gabrielle Haugh

Mercy Black(2022)

1h 27min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she's released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon.

Charlie's Farm(2014)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 33min | Horror
2.4/5 (with 44 votes)

Four friends head into the Australian Outback to investigate an urban legend about Charlie's Farm, where legend has it that an angry mob killed a sadistic family, and encounter a demented giant with a big thirst for revenge.

Directed by Chris Sun - With Tara Reid

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times(1972)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

After the death of their grandfather, two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by the Red Queen, whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years. When a mysterious woman in a red cloak starts targeting their circle of friends, the sisters begin to suspect there might be some truth to the legend.

Hold Your Breath(2012)

1h 27min | Horror, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 35 votes)

There is an old wives tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery because an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell can get inside of you when you inhale. Somewhere in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't follow the rules when driving by a graveyard, allowing a spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a killing spree of body-jumping carnage.

Midnight Movie(2009)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 19min | Horror, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 32 votes)

A rarely seen slasher flick gets a midnight screening at a run-down movie theater. The film's director was supposedly driven insane by it, but that doesn't deter horror fans, including Bridget and her boyfriend, Josh, from attending the showing. When the lights dim and the movie starts, they'd better prepare themselves for the scare of their lives. That's because they're not just going to be watching this bloodbath -- they're going to be starring in it.

Directed by Jack Messitt - With Michael Schwartz, Brea Grant

The Shortcut(2009)

1h 40min | Mystery, Horror, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 55 votes)

When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?

Tales from the Other Side(2022)

1h 30min | Horror
1.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Three kids sought out to have the most legendary Halloween night ever. Their Trick-or-treat adventure brings them to the home of the local town legend "Scary Mary". Legends say that she is a woman of pure evil, but one thing is for certain - She knows just the right spooky tales to give these three kids the scare of their life. Sharing six unique stories that will lead the children down a mysterious path to the unexpected.

The Widow(2020)

1h 20min | Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 40 votes)

Based on real events. In a densely forested area north of St. Petersburg people have been going missing for three decades. The few corpses ever found were naked. On October 14, 2017 a team of volunteers went out into the woods in search of a missing teenager. Soon, all communication with them was lost. Locals believe they were taken by the same dark spirit that took the others. They call it the Limping Widow.

The Curse of Buckout Road(2017)

1h 37min | Horror
3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.

Campfire Tales(1997)

1h 28min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 36 votes)

Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.

Teke Teke(2009)

1h 10min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's lower half walking aimlessly around the countryside within three days.

Directed by Kōji Shiraishi - With Mami Yamasaki
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