Cinema of the Damned

TV-Y71991 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy · 1 season · Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes

Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.

IMDb 8.2TMDB 7.6☠ 8.1

2000 · Drama, Comedy · 1 season · Ethan Embry, Lisa Sheridan, Karim Prince

Derek Barnes, assisted by his friends Chloe and Jason, runs a website called "FreakyLinks.com" that seeks out the dark and forbidden truths behind paranormal phenomena and urban legends. He took over the site after his twin brother, Adam, died under mysterious circumstances. Follow as Derek and his friends investigate supernatural claims for the website and uncover clues that might reveal the truth of his brother's fate.

TV-142016 · Drama · 4 seasons · Brandon Scott, Maria Sten, Steven Robertson

A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

IMDb 7.1TMDB 7.0☠ 7.1

2023 · Mystery, Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Steve Kasan, William Conrad, Darrin Drugan

A follow-up series to the popular Dark Passages program - continuing the exploration of lesser-known supernatural events, unsolved mysteries, cults, and urban legends.

IMDb 7.3TMDB 7.9☠ 7.1

TV-MA2020 · Drama, Crime · 2 seasons

A horror anthology series based on urban legends that takes viewers deeper into the horrors that lurk just beneath the surface of America.

2024 · Mystery, Documentary, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Steve Kasan, William Conrad, Darrin Drugan

This five-part docuseries explores the facts and fiction behind the world's most creepy, strange and inexplicable legends, mysteries, and creatures. From Japanese horror to tales of Cryptids and the supernatural, Spectral Shadows delves deep for answers.

TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons

An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 7.8☠ 6.3

2014 · Documentary, History, Crime · 86m · Rachel Mills, Joshua Zeman, Cindy Butler

Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 5.8☠ 6.2

NR2025 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 85m · Isabella Gómez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Shireen Lai

A stylist assistant investigates her sister's death in a historic LA building, only to face a vengeful ghost of a serial killer who dismembered victims decades ago. She must escape before she's next.

IMDb 4.7🍅 68%TMDB 5.4☠ 6.2

R1997 · Horror · 88m · James Marsden, Jay R. Ferguson, Christine Taylor

Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.

IMDb 5.8TMDB 5.9☠ 5.9

NR2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Annie Q. Riegel, Corey Fogelmanis, Jessi Case

A group of social outcasts, stuck in weekend detention, find themselves stalked by their school’s urban legend who is set on killing bad students.

IMDb 5.8TMDB 5.5☠ 5.9

2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan, Chelcie May

Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

IMDb 5.4MC 48🍅 74%TMDB 5.3☠ 5.6

R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Cristina Raines, Emilio Estevez, Lance Henriksen

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

PG-131990 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Sean Astin, Jason Horst, Joshua John Miller

Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start with urban legends, but then there are two main narrations: one involves strange happenings at an elementary school; the other, a teenage boy with a peculiar interest.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.7☠ 5.4

2017 · Horror · 97m · Evan Ross, Henry Czerny, Dominique Provost-Chalkley

A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.

IMDb 4.2🍅 63%TMDB 6.5☠ 5.3

R2009 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Drew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco

When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?

IMDb 5.0TMDB 4.7☠ 5.2

2014 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Bobby Campo, Mariah Bonner, Cooper Huckabee

While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself.

IMDb 4.6TMDB 4.9☠ 5.1

2016 · Horror · 95m · Gabrielle Haugh, Grayson Gabriel, Lin Shaye

A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.

IMDb 4.8TMDB 5.8☠ 5.0

R2017 · Horror · 93m · Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton, Javier Botet

A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

IMDb 5.1MC 45🍅 28%TMDB 5.5☠ 4.9

NR2020 · Horror · 70m · Amy Cay, Brian Patrick Butler, Cortney Palm

A young couple on a road trip takes a detour to the site where a notorious murderer, Ed "Hacksaw" Crowe, became an urban legend on the day he was killed many years before, but they quickly find the legend may not be quite as dead as they were counting on.

IMDb 1.9TMDB 4.7☠ 4.9

R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger

Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.

IMDb 4.7TMDB 4.9☠ 4.8

2020 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Giselle van der Wiel, Telen Rodwell, Aaron J. March

A journalist goes in search of the truth after a series of brutal deaths and disappearances lead back to an urban legend about a serial killing clown that has stalked the woods of Century Park for over a hundred years.

IMDb 3.2TMDB 6.3☠ 4.8

2018 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Maddy Curley, Eddie Kaulukukui, Logan Gambill

Inspired by true events, The Devils Tree follows Samantha, a college student studying journalism, who needs to finish her thesis with one last breaking news story. Along with her friend Rob, Samantha stumbles across a news article about an old tree in a local park where many horrible acts occurred. The locals have given the tree the name Devils Tree because of its urban legends of mass murders, satanic rituals, and paranormal activity. She decides this is the perfect story to finish her thesis on. As Sam digs deeper into the realm of the tree, she begins to uncover the truth about these urban legends. Struggling with her own demons of her past, Samantha is confronted with a the true demon of the tree and now must expose the truth in hopes to set it free. In the end, Samantha founds the real reason why evil is so rooted at The Devils Tree.

IMDb 4.1TMDB 5.1☠ 4.7

R2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 85m · Lacey Chabert, Brittney Wilson, Julia Maxwell

For generations, it was an urban legend that lived in the nightmares of children. Now, the season to rejuvenate the tale will revive a town's darkest fears. With the Scarecrow Festival on the horizon, school teacher Aaron Harris is doling out punishment for six students serving detention. Their task: help Aaron's girlfriend Amanda fix her family farm before it's sold. But the cornfields circling the farm come with a legend and Tyler takes macabre delight in recounting the tale: It never sleeps, it never dies, it can't be stopped, hear their cries.

IMDb 4.1TMDB 5.0☠ 4.5