Urban Legends that would make good scenes in Horror Movies.

[daveblackeye15]

There's this great Urban Legends page where you learn some really great stuff. I was thinking that some of these legends would make great scenes in Horror. One Legend is that a man brings a cactus home from Mexico and one day while he's watering it, it begins vibrating. The man calls some sort of plant agency and after answering some questions the man is told to get his familiy out of the house. When he does this, several vans pull up and guys wearing space suits get out. They go to the backyard and with a flame thrower burn up the cactus. It turns out that the cactus was about to explode and with hundreds of poisions spiders. Scary huh? Though this is impossible the idea of poisionious spiders bursting out of a cactus all over victims would make a great scene though I don't know what the movie would be about. Maybe some evil force in a town like "The Beyond" or something (trails off..)

-CRAPTASTIC!!!-



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[daveblackeye15]

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[Ash]

Hey Dave you know you can edit the title of your thread by clicking on the "edit post" words right?

[JohnL]

Several urban legends were used in the movie Urban Legends. Also, there was an episode of Honey I Shrunk the Kids that had urban legends coming to life, including the spider filled cactus.

[Scott]

I like the internet Conspiracy Theories sites they are kinda like urban legends. Great theories that are very hard to dis-prove.

[eeeee5]

.    Catch TLC's "Fact or Fiction"/"Urban Legends" show (They don't even list it on IMDB), it's hosted by "Species" and "Ghosts of Mars" star Natasha Henstridge.   They reenact the stuff, in those creepy documentary style type things.  Ever wonder what that crappy "He's in your backseat" thingee would look like?   They also reenact stupider ones that aren't scary like peeing red in the pool, and leaving your baby on the roof top stuff.

[JohnL]

I saw a show a while back that re-enacted different urban legends, but it was hosted by Alyson Hannigan. At least for that episode. Same show?

[Neon Noodle]

One they did on Fact or Fiction with Johnathan Frakes was about the kids who start this rumor about a mass murderer buried in the local graveyard. The dare is to stab a knife into the grave at the stroke of midnight.

Well, big surprise in this urban legend, the kid stabs the knife through his coat into the ground so when he gets up to leave, he's stuck and thinks the killer has come to life and he dies of fright.

Now that one would be cool, if done to someone like Freddie Prince Jr.

[eeeee5]

.         Alyson Hannigan, Johnathan Frakes, who knows how many different hosts, I've seen 6 or 7 eps, and they all were hosted by Henstridge, however, there might have been other hosts.

.         Sorry, daveblackeye15, I got off topic, but think the show exhibits how the legends could be seen in films.
 
.         I have "Lover's Lane," on VHS, and it;'s based on "the hook," legend, but it more resembles the "slasher" movie typology, with numerous references to "Halloween."

.         I think you'd have to severely twist the urban legend to get it to work as a film, but I think that "Tales from the Crypt," did it numerous times.

.         I'd like to see the one's involving med students and cadavers being used, they could be very cloustrophobic, character driven, and have cool, anti-heiratical, paybacks.  (Hawksian/Carpenteresque location driven [I haven't seen any Hawkes films, though I have "The Thing," but have heard them compared, or that Carpenter ripped off Hawkes]).  And it could get made since "C.S.I." and that other stuff is all over the TV, plus it would involve teens (no, really, they are teenagers), which too many movie producers seem to love.



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[JohnL]

>One they did on Fact or Fiction with Johnathan Frakes was about the kids who
>start this rumor about a mass murderer buried in the local graveyard. The dare
>is to stab a knife into the grave at the stroke of midnight.
>
>Well, big surprise in this urban legend, the kid stabs the knife through his coat
>into the ground so when he gets up to leave, he's stuck and thinks the killer has
>come to life and he dies of fright.

That was the plot of an episode of the original Twilight Zone, The Grave.



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[gammaray117]

The "Body in the Bed" would be good. I can just picture the guy overturning the mattress to find the mutilated victim of a mob hit merrily decomposing.
"Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?" would be good as well.

"BATEMAN!!!!!!!"

[JohnL]

>The "Body in the Bed" would be good. I can just picture the guy overturning the
>mattress to find the mutilated victim of a mob hit merrily decomposing.

That was used in a segment of Four Rooms. Antonio Banderas leaves his two kids alone in a hotel room and they keep smelling aq strange odor. Finally they discover the body of a hooker in the box spring.

>"Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?" would be good as well.

That was used as one of the murders in the movie Urban Legend.

[gammaray117]

My mistake. I haven't seen either of those.
There's one that takes place during the Blitz in London. A woman is approached by a blind man in the Underground one night and given a letter to deliver the next day to a certain address. Her suspicons are driven home when she spots the "blind" man remove his sunglasses and cane and read the LONDON TIMES. The next day, she contacts the police, who raid the address and find piles of human flesh for sale to desperate victims of the nightly bombing. It occurs to the woman that she never opened the envolope. She does, and finds the message:
"This is the last one I'm sending you this week."

"BATEMAN!!!!!!!"

[Dropo]

"Turkey Neck Trauma" would be go in a movie.