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Urban Legend Horror Movies

Name: Urban Legend Horror Movies
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Horror based on urban legends — the scary stories that keep getting passed around for a reason.

Urban Legend Horror Movies — 13 entries in the movies category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Ring	1998	Hideo Nakata	7.1	Horror, Thriller	Japan	96	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.
The Ring	2002	Gore Verbinski	6.7	Horror, Mystery	United States of America	115	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 s...
Candyman	1992	Bernard Rose	6.7	Drama, Horror, Thriller	United States of America	100	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.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	2019	André Øvredal	6.5	Horror, Adventure, Mystery	Canada	108	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.
The Blair Witch Project	1999	Daniel Myrick	6.4	Horror, Mystery	United States of America	81	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.
Dead Silence	2007	James Wan	6.4	Horror	United States of America	89	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 Fai...
Krampus	2015	Michael Dougherty	6.2	Horror, Comedy, Fantasy	United States of America	98	When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.
House of 1000 Corpses	2003	Rob Zombie	6.2	Horror	United States of America	89	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 Mothman Prophecies	2002	Mark Pellington	6.2	Drama, Horror, Mystery	United States of America	119	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.
Candyman	2021	Nia DaCosta	6	Horror, Thriller	Canada	91	A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
Urban Legend	1998	Jamie Blanks	5.7	Horror, Mystery	United States of America	100	A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
The Bye Bye Man	2017	Stacy Title	5.2	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	96	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 s...
Rings	2017	F. Javier Gutiérrez	5	Horror	United States of America	102	Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no...

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