Local legend movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant local legend movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, slasher, scary, psychotronic and weird films and TV shows about / with local legend, suspense, supernatural, danger, forest, murder, ghost, deadly, small town and chase plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
local legend
TOP 10 movies tagged as local legend: The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Hallow (2015), Moloch (2022), Char Man (2019), Toad Road (2012), The Big Scare (1964), The Phantom of the Open (2021), Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Berserker (1987).
List of local legend movies
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, witch, fear, suspense, forest, supernatural, survival, wilderness, videotaping, panic, urban legend, supernatural horror ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
maryland, usa
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
forest, transformation, supernatural, monster, macabre, creature, legend, suspense, demon, survival, family in danger, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is ...
Style:
slasher, atmospheric
Audience:
date night
Plot:
suspense, local legend, monster, supernatural, human sacrifice, family curse, festival, intruder, mother daughter relationship, occult, bus, archaeologist ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
netherlands
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599
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two friends visit fire-ravaged Ojai, California, intent on making a fake documentary about the infamous Ojai Vampire. However, things take a bizarre and frightening turn when they learn about a different local legend: The Char Man.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychotronic
Plot:
ghost story, paranormal, vampire, road trip, forest, friends, suspense, group of friends, urban legend, local legend, travel, paranormal phenomena ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.
Style:
psychological, surreal, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, urban legend, drug abuse, addiction, forest, small town, drugs, drug addiction, youth, violence, murder, redneck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, baltimore, maryland
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
Style:
parody
Plot:
serial killer, gypsy camp, gendarmerie, french police, counterfeit money, beast, murder confession, drunk driver, hunter, pharmacist, countryside, forger ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, satirical, entertaining
Plot:
golf, golfer, folk hero, optimist, daydreamer, sport, dream, athlete's life, satire, ambition, follow your dream, twins ...
Time:
70s, year 1985, year 1975
Place:
northern england
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Style:
scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
curse, supernatural, gold, ghost, mine, curses spells and rituals, undead, serial killer, revenge, suspense, local legend, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a bitter old recluse receives ...
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, werewolf, monster, serial killer, masked killer, suspense, psychopath, halloween party, ghost, supernatural, prank, scarecrow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Six young adults in the woods run afoul of a berserker, a viking warrior who dons the fur and snout of a bear, and are slain in turn by him.
Style:
slasher
Plot:
norse mythology, viking, murder, forest, backwoods, travel, bear, sheriff, female nudity, graphic violence, nostalgia, strong sexual content ...
Time:
10th century
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Guy moves to an old farm in Princeton with his wife Jeanne Cooley and their two daughters, Molly and Lucy to build eight windmills to generate clean power to the city. The Cooley family has a cold reception in town, and while voting for the approval ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
missing person, ghost, countryside, uncover truth, social relations, supernatural, family secret, insanity, suspense, small town, small town life, chase ...
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, tense, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
afterlife, monster, burned alive, mansion, curse, ghost, murder, mutant, village, supernatural ability, warlock, dealing with death ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, love affair, murder, samurai, adultery, family in danger, family problems, infidelity, afterlife, female nudity, curse ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, sexy, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, monster, murder, violent, massacre, torture, supernatural, nude, violence, death, psychopath, vengeance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003
Place:
new jersey, ohio
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, who done it, woman in danger, summer camp, siblings relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, youth, rivalry ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A boy and his dog must go in search of a fabled local treasure in an effort to save the family house from foreclosure.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, treasure hunt, save the day, rivalry, escapades, forest, parents and children, young heroes, mischievous children, small town, legends and myths, pets ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, psychotronic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, summer camp, camp counselor, stalking, murder, teenage life, forest, exploitation, killer, camp, death, killing spree ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s, year 1981
Place:
new york
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The town of Sauquoit, New York has a local legend, which says that the reclusive man who runs the annual Halloween haunted house uses real body parts to make his attraction so frightening. This is a legend that is taken lightly by everyone until the ...
Style:
slasher
Plot:
halloween, killer clown, urban legend, amusement park, haunted house, local legend, murder, death, massacre, teenager, wolf
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and ...
Style:
mystical, mysterious, captivating, slasher, disturbing ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal investigation, paranormal phenomena, missing person, supernatural, mysticism, supernatural horror, supernatural power, mysterious event, suspense, underground, urban legend ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they become stranded in a small coastal town where the beloved canine befriends a young boy who is ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, pirate, pets, friendship, treasure hunt, save the day, escapades, farce, chase, animals, dog, young heroes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
During the day Paola is an ordinary primary school teacher, but at night, she turns into…The Christmas Witch, a magical creature who brings gifts to the good kids. One night, Paola disappears, kidnapped by Mr. Johnny, a cruel Toymaker who got his ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, secret identity, school teacher, witchcraft, friendship, magic, double life, family relations, thanksgiving, disguise, mistaken identity, youth ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, slasher, intense, serious ...
Plot:
sasquatch, bigfoot, beast, monster, native american, creature, hunting, cryptid, forest, creature feature, legend, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, obsession, love, couples, friendship, destiny, adaptation, promise, youth ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer, camp counselor, murder, investigation, trapped, twists and turns, self sacrifice, freak accident, summer camp, lake, demon, paranormal ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 19th century
Place:
usa, midwest
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every ...
Style:
scary, slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, serial killer, private detective, freemason, killer, prostitute, murder, track down, law enforcement, amateur detective, partners against crime, investigation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An 18th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
Style:
scary, gothic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, village, haunted by the past, vengeance, mysterious character, witch, evil child, serial killer, cult ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century
Place:
romania, europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Regular Show is an American animated television series created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network that premiered on September 6, 2010. The series revolves around the lives of two friends, a Blue Jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby —both ...
Style:
not serious, adult animation, humorous, sitcom, absurd ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
slacker, boss, partners, coworker, workplace, irresponsible, friendship, anthropomorphism, ghost, giant bird, creature, friends ...
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