Authentic Recordings! Cursed Urban Legends: A Collection of Urban Legends from the Showa Era
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Overview
This DVD highlights the movies based on urban legends that have been passed down from generation to generation throughout the ages. "Headless Rider", "Mr. Kokkuri", "Young Satoru", "Teketeke", "Slit-mouthed Woman", "Bathroom Hanako" These famous legends are covered on two volumes, the Shōwa-era and the Heisei-era. A collection of extreme horror and real drama, reproduced with interviews and photographic evidence.
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Runtime
59 min
Release Date
2007-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
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Kenji Shibayama
Maki Obayashi
Juri Suzue
Takashi Furukawa
Yumi Ishimoto
6.7
The Ring
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.
2002-10-18 | en
6.5
Kisaragi Station
Haruna Tsunematsu is studying folklore at university and she decides the subject of her graduation thesis will be the "Kisaragi Station" urban legend which has been a hot topic on the Internet since 2004.
2022-06-03 | ja
7.0
Scrambled
A man awake late at night accidentally injures himself, only to find mysterious letters at his door in a series of increasingly bizarre events linked to a creepy urban legend that may actually be real. An atmospheric short film that gives birth to a terrifying new urban legend.
2013-07-09 | en
3.5
The Haunted House on Kirby Road
Six stoner best friends discover a viral video of a local teen who disappeared years ago from an alleged haunted house in their neighbourhood. Searching for one last adventure before graduating high school, the teens decide to investigate this local urban legend, only to discover this night could be their worst, and possible last, experience of their lives.
2016-09-09 | en
5.0
Silent Lake
Peter and Linda, a young couple from the UK, decide to spend a week in Eastern Europe. They go to Poland. They use a small camera to record their journey. Karol, Peter’s stepbrother, picks them up from the airport. The three of them set off to Masuria where they rent a small sailing boat and sail out on a lake. At first, they have a splendid time. They sail, make love and explore the beauty of pristine lakes. One day, they discover an abandoned training ground near Giżycko. Their perfect holiday does not last long. Odd things start happening to them…
2013-06-28 | en
4.0
Lake of Death
A small group of friends battle to survive in the middle of the forests and fjords of Norway. The story is based on Norwegian legend thought to be innocent folklore.
2019-11-01 | no
6.4
Alter Ego
Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo crew to question their sanity, as one by one they begin to die agonizing and painful deaths that are seemingly caused by none other than themselves.
2002-12-07 | ja
4.9
Urban Legends: Final Cut
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.
2000-09-22 | en
5.4
Barbarous Mexico
Eight tales based on the most brutally terrifying Mexican traditions and legends, an anthology of haunting stories woven into the fabric of the Mexican culture, some told through the centuries and some new, but all equally frightening. Bogeymen, trolls, ghosts, monsters, all brought to life. Time for Aztec sacrifices. This is the Day of the Dead.
2014-10-18 | es
0.0
Pig Hill
Carrie has been fascinated by the local legend of the pig people of Pig Hill, revolting creatures who breed and cause havoc in the area. As the tenth woman goes missing, Carrie can't stop thinking that there could be more to these stories.
| en
4.3
Slender Man
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
2018-05-17 | en
5.0
Midnight Movie
At a seedy theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film, unaware that the director has something more in store for them.
2008-10-24 | en
5.8
Campfire Tales
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.
1997-02-28 | en
1.0
The Greenman
Seven friends at a birthday party discover a story about an urban legend. They decide to go searching for the Greenman. After the party is over, and the fun stops, they soon realize there is more to the legend than people actually know,
2011-05-21 | en
4.9
Lycan
When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf.
2017-08-04 | en
0.0
The Concubine
A former soldier gets a job to rob a house, but it turns out that the house is the house of Nyai, a concubine a.k.a Gundik.
2025-05-22 | id
6.4
Dead Silence
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.
2007-03-16 | en
6.4
Stare
Dead bodies with eyeballs ruptured are continuously found. Their direct causes of death are heart attacks and they acted like they were possessed right before their deaths. Mizuki is a university student. Her friend dies in front of her. Meanwhile, Haruo’s younger brother dies. Mizuki and Haruo begin to investigate together. They learn that Eiko holds a key to the mystery. Soon, Eiko's eyeballs rupture and she dies by a heart attack. Before she dies, she mentions the word "Shirai-san.”
2020-01-10 | ja
0.0
Psychic Manjara 40
The definitive version of the urban legend actual record psychic video collection! Supervised by "Ryo Matsumoto" who sent out a number of horror and psychic DVDs to the world. It contains a large number of profound horror psychic videos, from psychic posted videos to investigation of bizarre phenomena. The fortieth bullet.
2023-06-02 | ja
6.6
Candyman
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
1992-10-16 | en