Has your hometown legend been adapted into a film? It should be!
The Big Picture Since the dawn of cinema, horror movies have drawn from locational folklore and urban legends to tell spooky stories that you’d rather not hear in the dark. These stories often feel too real and can hit way too close to home. For a while there, in the 1990s and early on into the 21st century, these sorts of horror stories were all the rage as Hollywood co-opted local legends for the sake of scaring audiences everywhere. And then they went away.
As these types of horror flicks gained traction, some took well-known urban legends, like the concept of snuff films, a cursed email chain, or "Bloody Mary," and re-purposed them for new audiences. That's how movies like Candyman were born, a series that, like the legend itself, has recently reappeared in the 2020s. Some flicks, such as the Urban Legend trilogy which ran from 1998 to 2005, even dared to tackle more than one modern myth at a time.
Because horrific and paranormal folktales remain with us, there's no time like the present to dive back in and use these ghastly fables to incite more terror. Some long-lasting legends, such as the Flatwoods Monster of Braxton County, West Virginia, have yet to be adapted for the big screen at all and deserve a closer look.
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