12 Urban Legends Turned Horror Movies

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Urban legends have been a part of our society since the first man crawled from the primordial soup. It’s only natural that we create things, no matter how outlandish or asinine, to explain things we can’t (or don’t) understand. And that, folks, is how organized religion came to pass. But we’re not here to talk about that, no, we’re here to talk about horror movies. Urban legends can come in all shapes and sizes. From the totally bizarre to the downright gruesome.

Think of the urban legend as a sort of modern day Grimm’s fairy tale. They are, on some level, a morality play. They provide us with some life lesson we should have learned from our parents or through plain old common sense. Sure, over the years they may have become diluted, changed, and emulsified with other legends, but the intended result is quite clear from all of them: to scare the living **** out of you.

You’ve been warned…

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Gremlins entry fail to mention the famous Twilight Zone episode, both original series and the movie, it is a gremlin on the wing of the plane. Although the Richard Matheson story on which they were based, it was never clear that the gremlin was real or only in the imagination of protagonist.