Urban legend movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant urban legend movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out scary, slasher, suspenseful, serious, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with urban legend, danger, blood, violence, ghost, deadly, supernatural, death, serial killer and murder plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as urban legend: YellowBrickRoad (2010), Bloody Mary (2006), Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), Urban Legend (1998), Candyman (2021), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Smiley (2012), Campfire Tales (1997), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Urbania (2000).
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List of urban legend movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological horror ...
Plot:
urban legend, wilderness, mountain, insanity, survival, danger, obsession, haunted by the past, social relations, escapades, small town, small town life ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place:
new hampshire, new england, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales ...
Style:
scary, enigmatic, spooky, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children, adult
Plot:
urban legend, halloween, small town, teenager, haunted, old dark house, haunted house, monster, scarecrow, ghost, fear, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, serious ...
Plot:
urban legend, violence, ghost, missing person, curses spells and rituals, gory, myth, blood, hospital, revenge, afterlife, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, afterlife, dead teenager, bloody mary, ghost, profanity, spirit, supernatural, murder, danger, haunted by the past, buddies ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, twist ending, teen, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, campus, strangulation, serial murder, murder, killer, female protagonist, blood, dark and stormy night, bad girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new hampshire
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83K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, strong violent content, murder, gay brother, urban decay, art exhibition, candyman, african american, supernatural, vengeful ghost, mirror, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1977, 2010s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scary, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
urban legend, hallucination, warning, psychic, death of wife, twists and turns, nightmare, supernatural power, telephone call, fantasy world, destiny, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 20th century, 70s
Place:
west virginia, washington d.c., pittsburgh, ecuador, virginia ...
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10K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.
Style:
slasher, psychological, surprise ending, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, prank, masked killer, psychopath, danger, internet, college student, student, library, paranoia ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.
Style:
anthology, disturbing, erotic, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, campfire story, ghost, supernatural, spirit, making love, sex scene, danger, youth, farmhouse, mysterious man, storytelling ...
Time:
90s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
north america
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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:
suspense, scary, independent film, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
witch, found footage, folk horror, urban legend, supernatural, fear, survival, lost in the woods, supernatural horror, panic, forest, wilderness ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
maryland, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, surreal, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
gay, urban legend, gender, gay relationship, glbt, murder, closeted homosexual, gay bashing, character study, depression, lgbt, gangster ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) 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 ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, urban legend, youth, danger, murder, chase, child in peril, friendship, high school, psychopath, young heroes, siblings relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, year 1953, year 1945, 1950s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' -- a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s -- with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost (Samantha Facchi) ...
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, psychopath, legends and myths, gory, serial killer, survival, youth, vengeance, danger, teenage life, uncover truth, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
bad ending, suspense, scary, psychological, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
urban legend, evil spirit, kidnapping, friendship, woods, teenage girl, supernatural, teenager, teenage protagonist, small town, evil, supernatural power ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
massachusetts, usa
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109K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, frightening, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, accused of murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An Australian urban legend comes screaming on the Ozploitation scene. It’s said that if you drive down the creepy road of Lemon Tree Passage, and witness a sudden flash of light in the trees, you'll be forever haunted by the tormented spirit ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, ghost, rape, american abroad, homicidal maniac, violence, brutality, danger, death, redneck, road trip, paranormal ...
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, scary, twisted, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, small town, urban legend, abduction, danger, conspiracy, dysfunctional family, justice, family problems, parents and children, rescue ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
washington state, usa, washington d.c., canada, seattle
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
creepy, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Donner Pass has a well-known and macabre history - the place where George Donner and his party got stuck in the winter of 1846 and were forced to resort to cannibalism to keep from starving. But what if it wasn't just history?
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
curse, snow, urban legend, danger, cannibal, blood, survival, youth, teenage life, haunted by the past, female nudity, mountain ...
Time:
1840s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, slasher horror, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swamp, urban legend, serial killer, gory, graphic violence, supernatural, psychopath, serial murder, ghost, danger, guts, backwoods slasher ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
urban legend, evil spirit, high school student, mythical creature, ghost, danger, struggle for survival, murder, teenager, violence, curse, darkness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
urban legend, supernatural, revenge, husband murders wife, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, murder, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, gory, small town ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, urban legend, supernatural, danger, supernatural ability, youth, curses spells and rituals, student life, looking for love, city life, friendship, sadism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
telephone call, macabre, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, hospital, spirit, good versus evil, vengeance, haunted by the past, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bullying students are becoming deathly ill after screaming the name of a legendary ghost. What's to blame? An exotic illness? An illicit drug? Or is it the supernatural? The clues are few and time is running out for the students of Rogers High ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
high school, ghost, curse, bully, urban legend, secret mission, haunted by the past, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, who done it, teenage life ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, surprise ending, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, murder, college, who done it, teenage life, halloween, killer, gory, college life, masked killer, filmmaking ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, suspense, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alligator, sewer, creature feature, crocodile, creature, animal attack, giant animal, urban legend, monster, toxic, reptile, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, new jersey
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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:
surreal, psychological, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, urban legend, drug abuse, woods, drug addiction, addiction, group of friends, small town, youth, danger, murder, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, maryland, baltimore
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
slasher, anthology, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, isolation, serial killer, video game, obsession, maniac, priest, multiple storylines, virtual reality, store, hidden identity, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swamp, urban legend, gory, supernatural, ghost, survival, psychopath, curses spells and rituals, serial murder, danger, profanity, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
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