Playing upon urban legends of young women being terrorized by anonymous phone calls, a sorority house is plagued by strange calls and several murders during Christmas break.
A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. A journalist, the aunt of one of the victims, investigates the shocking phenomenon, and uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape.
The legend that dying during your nightmare will cause you to die in real life becomes reality for the teens of Springwood, Ohio, who are stalked in their dreams by Freddy Krueger.
A pet baby alligator is flushed into the sewers, where he survives by feeding off experimental lab animals. In time, he becomes a 32-foot monster that devours humans and animals alike. Now it's up to one detective to prove it exists, before it's too late.
This faux-documentary about three student filmmakers lost in the woods became an urban legend itself through a viral marketing campaign that presented the film as part of a real missing persons case.
A polar shift unleashes earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and megatsunamis in this planetary-scale disaster movie based on the belief the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012.
A fictional story of how a love triangle in WWII-era Hungary led to the composition of "Gloomy Sunday," a (real) song that, according to urban legend, drives listeners to despondency and suicide.