Top 10 Films Based On Urban Legends

31-10-2008 14:48

Urban Legend (1998)- based on the premise that a killer is using the methods of death described in certain urban legends (such as the fatal mixing of cola and Pop Rocks) as a means to kill his victims.

House of 1000 Corpses (2003) - the film focuses on four college students traveling throughout rural America who become intrigued by a local legend regarding the mad scientist Dr. Satan

Bogeyman (2005) - based on the urban legend popularly believed in by children

“It’s about dramatically empowered womanhood, where male wrong-doers are liable to find themselves severely punished… perhaps even castrated. The vagina dentata myth has been so powerful in primitive and modern cultures because it speaks of an age-old battle between the sexes, and radically challenges common notions of male power.”

“What’s fascinating, unsettling, and unusual about Teeth is that it does something that little bit different – taking a myth that’s arguably ingrained in our psychologies, and rooted in our cultural histories, and re-making it afresh for audiences right now.”

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