Tag: urban legend

  • Nightmares

    A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid’s obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and…

  • Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

    Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the “Candyman” to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.

  • Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film

    Documentary tracing the rise of the ‘slasher’ movie.

  • Urbania

    A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.

  • Urban Legends: Final Cut

    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 Haunted House on Kirby Road

    Six stoner best friends discover a viral video of a local teen who disappeared years ago from an alleged haunted house in their neighbourhood. Searching for one last adventure before graduating high school, the teens decide to investigate this local urban legend, only to discover this night could be their worst, and possible last, experience…

  • Hanako of the Toilet

    When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.

  • Urban Legend

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

  • The Hair Witch Project

    Find out the truth about the terrible fate of three documentary filmmakers who journeyed deep into the woods in search of the legendary Hair Witch… and never came back. One week later, their footage was found… then lost again. Then somebody found it and bootlegged it on the Internet. Then it got lost again, and…

  • The Blair Witch Project

    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.

  • Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai

    Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

  • Alter Ego

    Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly…

  • The Mothman Prophecies

    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 Ring

    Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video… and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can…

  • House of 1000 Corpses

    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 Locker 2

    Seconds before Reika (from the first movie) dies, she gives the key to a coin locker to her pupil Ayano. After a hunt for the right coin locker, Ayano finally finds the right one but she soon realizes that some things should be left alone. When some other students at her school finds the coin…

  • The Locker

    A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long black hair soon shows up to kill them off…

  • Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie

    8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Akio Yoshida), Wisps of Smoke (Kosuke Suzuki), Gloves (Hirohisa Sasaki), The Weight (Kosuke Suzuki), Full-Length Mirror (Ryuta Miyake), Line of Sight (Keisuke Toyoshima), The Promise (Keita Amemiya) and Hisao (Shun’ichi…

  • Gundik

    A former soldier gets a job to rob a house, but it turns out that the house is the house of Nyai, a concubine a.k.a Gundik.

  • Dead Silence

    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…

  • The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man

    One man’s journey to find meaning in Bill Murray’s many unexpected adventures with everyday people, rare and never-before seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend.