Urban Legend Comes True
Community ListCurated by the horror codex · 78 films
A friend of a friend swears it happened.
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The hook on the car door, the name you say into the mirror, the babysitter's call coming from inside the house. Urban legends spread because they feel just plausible enough, and horror loves to answer the question of what happens if they're real. This is a list for films where a known legend, campfire story or local myth turns out to be true.
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Ring
1998 ★ 3.8
Candyman
1992 ★ 4.0
The Ring
2002 ★ 3.8
Butterfly Kisses
2018 ★ 3.0
Boys from County Hell
2021 ★ 3.8
Candyman
2021 ★ 3.3
Marshmallow
2025 ★ 3.5
Hatchet
2006 ★ 3.6
Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman
2012 ★ 3.8
There's Something in the Barn
2023 ★ 3.5
The Empty Man
2020 ★ 3.3
Kandisha
2022 ★ 3.5
The Burning
1981 ★ 3.1
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman
2007 ★ 3.5
Lake of the Dead
1958 ★ 3.0
Campfire Tales
1997 ★ 3.5
The Soviet Sleep Experiment
2019
The Russian Sleep Experiment
2015
Siam Square
2017
Horror Hotline... Big Head Monster
2001
Toad Road
2013
Kisaragi Station
2022
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
Cry Baby Lane
2000
The Locker 2
2004
Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait
2007
Teke Teke
2009
The Tag-Along: Devil Fish
2018
The Tag-Along
2015
Last Stop: Rocafort St.
2024 ★ 3.0
Scarred
2005
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
2007
Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver
2013
The Boogeyman: Origins
2023
Kissing Darkness
2014
The Bridge Curse
2020
Queen of Spades
2021 ★ 3.0
The Midnight Game
2013
Feed
2022 ★ 3.0
Mercy Black
2019 ★ 3.0
Sam's Lake
2006
Urban Legend
1998 ★ 2.9
Fingerprints
2006
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp
2003
The Shortcut
2009
Closed for the Season
2010
The Beast of Bray Road
2005
Grimcutty
2022 ★ 3.2
Room 205
2007
The Cry
2007
Lemon Tree Passage
2014 ★ 3.0
Popeye the Slayer Man
2025 ★ 3.0
Boggy Creek
2010
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet
2009
Abandoned Mine
2013
The Barrens
2012
Albino Farm
2009
Scarecrow
2013
Paranormal Xperience
2011
Madman
1981 ★ 2.7
Hellgate
1989
Don't Knock Twice
2017 ★ 3.0
Mortuary
2005
Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story
2015 ★ 3.0
Bloody Murder
2000
Hold Your Breath
2012
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995 ★ 3.0
The Redwood Massacre
2014
The Wicked
2013
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
2005
Elevator Game
2023 ★ 2.0
Darkness Falls
2003 ★ 3.5
Hollow
2011 ★ 2.5
The Tooth Fairy
2006
The Resort
2021 ★ 1.0
Slender Man
2018 ★ 2.5
Dear David
2023 ★ 1.8
Smiley
2012