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May 14, 2024 · More Urban Legend Horror Movies . Frogs (1972) deals with a popular legend of an infestation of hostile animals—birds, spiders, or anything—but in this case, obviously, the invaders are green and make croaking sounds. Snowbeast (1977) is a TV movie based on the Asian legend of the Abominable Snowman.
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- The Wicker Man (1973) The Wicker Man was based on urban legends about ritualistic pagan communities. The Wicker Man. Release Date. August 7, 1974. Director.
- Black Christmas (1974) Black Christmas was inspired by the urban legend of the babysitter and the man upstairs. Release Date. December 20, 1974.
- Candyman (1992) Candyman was based on the urban legend of the Candyman. The Candyman was an urban legend whose origins dates back generations and related to the murderous soul with a hook for a hand who appeared after “you said his name three times in the mirror.”
- The Mothman Prophecies (2002) The Mothman Prophecies was based on a West Virginia urban legend from the 1960s. The Mothman Prophecies claimed to be about real events that took place between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and while some aspects were taken from real life it was largely inspired by urban legends.
- 10 Clive Barker's Take on Bloody Mary Creates A New and Frightening Urban Legend
- 9 Alligators in The Sewers Is A Classic Urban Legend
- 8 Every Babysitter Fears The Urban Legend of The Man Upstairs
- 7 The Man Upstairs Also Brings About A Very Bloody Christmas
- 6 Willow Creek – Bigfoot: Not For The Family
- 5 The Defeo Poltergeist Is Based on A True Horror
- 4 One Movie Takes on The Most Famous Urban Legends All at Once
- 3 The Hookman Comes Calling
- 2 Onryo Is A Classic Japanese Urban Legend
- 1 The Little Girl in Red Is A Newer Taiwanese Urban Legend
Candyman
Based on Clive Barker's "The Forbidden" and lifting elements from the famous Bloody Mary urban legend, 1992's Candyman is an excellent blend of violenceand psychological horror to create a modern-day urban legend that is sure to keep make anyone tempted but afraid to say "Candyman" into a mirror five times. Candymanused over 200,000 honeybees for the movie, including the scene where they come out of Candyman’s mouth. To pull off the effect, actor Tony Todd wore a special mouthpiece to minimiz...
Alligator
Anyone who has grown up in a city has heard tales of alligators living in the sewers. 1980's Alligator is a creature feature that takes this urban legend and mixes it with the same basic plotline as Jaws. There’s a heroic policeman with an affliction, a man-eating creature played by a malfunctioning animatronic, and powerful men who want to keep the monster a secret. Related: 10 Critically-Acclaimed Horror Movies That Aged Poorly The best thing Alligator takes from Jawsis its use of the unkno...
When A Stranger Calls
When A Stranger Callsis based on one of the most well-known urban legends. As the myth goes, a lone teenage girl babysitting young children begins to get calls from a strange man telling her to check on the children. Frightened, the babysitter calls the police who tell her that the murderer is calling from inside the house. When A Stranger Callsstarts with a step-by-step retelling of an urban legend that originated in the 1960s and continues to terrify babysitters and parents alike. While mos...
Black Christmas While Black Christmas isn’t a direct retelling of the babysitter urban legend, it does take inspiration from it. Like the original story, the murderer in Black Christmastorments his victims with creepy phone calls before going in for the kill, and it’s revealed later that he’s calling from inside the house. Aside from that, Black Ch...
Most movies based on the Bigfoot legend these days tend to be family-friendly, promoting the ideas of acceptance, freedom, and the protection of nature from corporate greed. Bobcat Goldthwait's Willow Creekis not one of these movies. When a young couple goes on a trip to investigate the Bigfoot legend, they quickly realize that the mythical beast i...
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horroris based on a modern folk story inspired by real events. In 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered six members. A month later, a family of five moved into the house and claimed that they were being terrorized by paranormal activity. The myth of The Amityville Horror has since been debunked, but it became the basis of an entire franchise. The first film from 1979 is still the gold standard by which all other haunted house films are measured. An agonizingly frightening film, The A...
Urban Legend
1998's Urban Legendtakes some of the greatest urban legends, including the killer in the backseat, making a stomach explode with Pop Rocks and soda, and the Hatchet man, and places them all at the feet of one killer. By using so many urban legends, each kill in Urban Legend is a unique experience for audiences. Urban Legend isn’t the most original movie. The plot has many similarities to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. However, the show that the killer makes of their victims’ deat...
I Know What You Did Last Summer
In I Know What You Did Last Summer, an urban legend provided inspiration for the killer. The movie itself is a loose adaptationof a thriller novel by Lois Duncan, but to better fit writer Kevin Williamson's vision, the original attacker was replaced by a version of the Hookman myth. Many horror movies take inspiration from this legend, but the killer from I Know What You Did Last Summer is closer to the original legend than most. Following on the heels of Scream, which was also written by Wil...
Ju-On: The Grudge
An onryo is a type of ghost from Japanese folklore who seeks revenge on the living. Although the figure itself technically doesn't qualify as an urban legend since it's been around for too long, it has inspired many urban legends. Related: The Most Disturbing Horror Films Of The '00s, Ranked The onryo legend is often used in J-horror movies, like Ju-On: The Grudge. Ju-On, which was remade as The Grudge for American audiences, takes the classic onryo legend and brings it to modern day. Here, t...
The Tag-Along
The Tag-Alongis a Taiwanese horror movie based on a popular urban legend about “The Little Girl in Red.” The legend started with a video of a family hiking in the woods and making an amateur film about their experiences. Afterward, they saw that they were followed by a little girl in a red dress the whole time. The strange part though was that no one remembered seeing her. Photos and videos have been the start of many urban legends, Slenderman being a popular example. Before the rise of Photo...
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- Urban Legend. Now, this is how you do an urban legend movie. Don't just use one as your horror movie's backbone, use a whole bunch to give your killer a much more memorable M.O.
- Trick r' Treat. The celebration of Halloween is practically built upon pagan beliefs and superstitions, so why not make an entire movie that celebrates them?
- Beetlejuice. And now we move things to the opposite of the spectrum with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. He's the ghost with the most, a bio-exorcist looking to help out the recently deceased, and he knows how to throw one heck of a dinner party.
- Candyman. Our next entries all have a central theme in common, a ghost you can summon by chanting their name. This idea goes all the way back to the myth of Bloody Mary, but nowhere was it made more terrifying than in Clive Barker's Candyman.
Aug 8, 2018 · 1. Candyman (1992) It doesn’t get better than Candyman for urban-legend horror. Tony Todd stars as the titular villain in this take on the Bloody Mary myth, which was adapted from fear master ...
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Aug 10, 2018 · The 13 Best Movies Based On Urban Legends. Ghosts, demons, slashers, zombies. These are all some of the typical antagonists behind today’s horror movies, and while the retread of these enemies ...
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Jan 2, 2024 · Before there were horror movies, there were legends. Passed down through oral tradition, our earliest ancestors created colorful fables of vengeful gods, malevolent witches, and ravenous beasts ...
