Top 37 must-see best urban legend movies from urban legend movies, including Halloween, The Host, Monstrum, Cropsey, The Blair Witch Project, The Reflecting Skin, Trick 'r Treat, Shin Gojira, Candyman, and The Ring ranked and rated by score.
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Plot / Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.
Tagline: The trick was to stay alive...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers
Plot / Synopsis: A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.Tagline: It is Lurking Behind You...
Director: Bong Joon Ho Stars: Kang-ho Song, Hee-Bong Byun, Hae-il Park, Bae Doona, Doona Bae
Plot / Synopsis: Yoon Gyeom is a loyal subject of King Jung Jong of Joseon. He struggles to fight against a monster that threatens King Jung Jong's life and a group of people trying to depose King Jung Jong...
Director: Jong-ho Huh Stars: Myung-Min Kim, In-kwon Kim, Hyeri Lee, Woo-sik Choi, Sung-woong Park
Plot / Synopsis: Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true; two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
Tagline: What if your urban legends were real?...
Directors: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman Stars: Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Bill Ellis, Dorothy D''Eletto, Geraldo Rivera
The Blair Witch Project is Streaming on HBO Max, Shudder
Plot / Synopsis: Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Tagline: 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.
Victory International Film Festival in association with Blood Moon...
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez Stars: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King
Plot / Synopsis: A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother,...
Director: Philip Ridley Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser
Plot / Synopsis: Five 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 guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his...
Director: Michael Dougherty Stars: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Quinn Lord, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain
Plot / Synopsis: Shin Godzilla (2016) will release in limited US movie theaters starting October 11 - 18, 2016.
Press Release: LOS ANGELES, CA - September 9, 2016. The iconic science-fiction monster Godzilla makes land fall in the U.S. and Canada this October with the North American theatrical release of "SHIN GODZILLA" from Toho Company, Ltd--and you can score your tickets now! Fans...
Plot / Synopsis: Candyman (2021) is now releasing on August 27, 2021, earlier than the previous October 1, 2021 release date.
A "spiritual sequel" to the 1992 horror film 'Candyman' that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
Candyman was scheduled for a September 25, 2020 release but is pushed back to an October 16, 2020 release date...
Plot / Synopsis: A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
Tagline: Before you die, you see... the ring...
Director: Gore Verbinski Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander
Plot / Synopsis: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right,...
Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick
Plot / Synopsis: Based on true events and long-circulating urban legend in Taiwan. Wei is nowhere to be found one day before his grandma returns from her own strange missing incident. Wei's girlfriend desperately searches for his whereabouts and finds that it is the horrifying mystery of the little girl in red that has followed and haunted them all along...
Director: Wei-Hao Cheng Stars: Wei-Ning Hsu, River Huang, Yin-Shang Liu, Po-Chou Chang, Yumi Wong
Plot / Synopsis: In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
Tagline: The year is 1766... The hunt for a killer has begun...
Director: Christophe Gans Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Jérémie Renier, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne
Plot / Synopsis: In 1962 Taiwan during the White Terror martial law period, Fang Ray Shin, a female student at the hillside Greenwood High School is attending counselling with teacher Mr. Chang, and they gradually fall in love. It was a dangerous period where sensitive books were banned and free speech were restricted, but Mr. Chang secretly organised a study group for...
Plot / Synopsis: Byzantium has Gemma Arterton plays a vampire who turns her child played by Saoirse Ronan into a vampire as well. Neil Jordan directs this vampire movie and I am hoping this will be a great horror movie.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan , Gemma Arterton , Caleb Landry JonesDirector: Neil Jordan...
Director: Neil Jordan Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Barry Cassin, Gemma Arterton, David Heap, Warren Brown