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TOP 35 URBAN LEGEND HORROR FILMS

Ever watched a horror movie and got the strangest feeling the story is somehow familiar, but you just can't place it? Then chances are that film is using the plot-line of an urban legend.

Throughout the centuries myths and folktales have enjoyed immense popularity in society and although the phrase “urban legend” is synonymous in most people’s minds with “false belief,” the term actually indicates a more complex social phenomenon related to the production and transmission of folk narratives—narratives which are indeed usually false, but which can also, on rare occasions, prove to be true.

Well... for horror movies there's no better backstory than basing your film on a popular, well worn story that most audiences can instantly relate to. And getting the hell scared out of them at the same time, of course! IHdb has collected 35 films based in whole or part on popular Urban Legends and ranked them according to the combined aggregated score provided by Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDb.

And so, we present our TOP 35 URBAN LEGEND HORROR FILMS!

Enjoy!!!

#35     Shutter  (2008)

Avg. IHdb Score:   7%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Spirit Photography

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#34     The Number 23 (2007)

Avg. IHdb Score:   8%

LEGEND BASED ON:

23 Enigma

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#33     When a Stranger Calls (2006)

Avg. IHdb Score:   9%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs

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#32     The Forest (2016)

Avg. IHdb Score:   10

LEGEND BASED ON:

Aokigahara Forest

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#31     Bunnyman (2011)

Avg. IHdb Score:   11%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Bunny Man

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#30     An American Haunting (2006)

Avg. IHdb Score:   12%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Bell Witch

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#29     Boogeyman (2005)

Avg. IHdb Score:   13%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Monster in the Closet

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#28     Teketeke (2009)

Avg. IHdb Score:   13%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Teke Teke

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#27     Mirrors (2008)

Avg. IHdb Score:   14%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Mirror Superstitions

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#26     Hold Your Breath (2012)

Avg. IHdb Score:   14%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Hold Your Breath While Driving by a Cemetery

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#25     Hit and Run (2009)

Avg. IHdb Score:   16%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Body on the Car

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#24     Nightmares (1983)

Avg. IHdb Score:   17%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Killer in the Backseat

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#23     Urban Legend (1998)

Avg. IHdb Score:   20%

For the full list of legends used, see the Wikipedia article HERE

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#22     Area 51 (2015)

Avg. IHdb Score:   20%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Area 51 and Roswell Conspiracy

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#21     8mm (1999)

Avg. IHdb Score:   22%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Snuff Films

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#20     Amusement (2008)

Avg. IHdb Score:   27%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Clown Statue

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#19     Bloody Mary (2006)

Avg. IHdb Score:   28%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Bloody Mary

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#18     Shadow People (2012)

Avg. IHdb Score:   29%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Shades of the Underworld

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#17     Fingerprints (2006)

Avg. IHdb Score:   30%

LEGEND BASED ON:

San Antonio School Bus

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#16     Lovers Lane (1999)

Avg. IHdb Score:   31%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Hook

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#15     Campfire Tales (1997)

Avg. IHdb Score:   32%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Hook and People Can Lick Too

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#14     When a Stranger Calls (1979)

Avg. IHdb Score:   36%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs

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#13     Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)

Avg. IHdb Score:   40%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Bloody Mary

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#12     Toire no Hanako-san: Shin Gekijôban (2013)

Avg. IHdb Score:   46%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Hanako-san

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#11     The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Avg. IHdb Score:   53%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Mothman

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#10     Devil's Pass (2013)

Avg. IHdb Score:   53%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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#09     Carved: The Slit Mouth Woman (2005)

Avg. IHdb Score:   56%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Kuchisake-onna or Slit-Mouthed Woman

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#08     The Burning (1981)

Avg. IHdb Score:   61%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Cropsey Legend

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#07     Black Christmas (1974)

Avg. IHdb Score:   64%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs

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#06     Alligator (1980)

Avg. IHdb Score:   67%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Alligators in the Sewers

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#05     Candyman (1982)

Avg. IHdb Score:   71%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Bloody Mary

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#04     Bell Witch: The Movie (2007)

Avg. IHdb Score:   80%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Bell Witch

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#03     Toad Road (2013)

Avg. IHdb Score:   83%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Seven Gates of Hell

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#02     The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Avg. IHdb Score:   86%

LEGEND BASED ON:

The Bell Witch

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#01     Willow Creek (2014)

Avg. IHdb Score:   86%

LEGEND BASED ON:

Bigfoot

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