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Director Joshua Zeman picks up in this one right where he left off in Cropsey
(which he even mentions in the prologue) - he tries (and succeeds) to make
some sense of a number of very popular urban legends:
- The Hookman: A masked man with a hook kills teens making out
in their cars on lovers' lane ... which is something that actually
never happened that way, but the hook has become a popular mainstay in
horror cinema - but there is the (actual and actually masked) Phantom
Killer, who has killed a few victims on lovers' lane in Texarkana
in 1946, and mostly there was raped involved also - a murder series
that became known as the Moonlight Murders. The killer though
was never caught, but a movie callet The Town that Dreaded
Sundown,
a very early slasher movie, was made about the murders in 1976.
- The Candyman: No relation with the Clive Barker story or
movie here, the myth is actually about someone poisoning halloween
candy or sticking razorblades and needles into them. The rumours are
almost ancient, but it was not until 1976 that a boy actually died
from poisoned candy - and in a macabre turn of life imitates art, it
was actually his own father who poisoned him to collect insurance, and
he just hid behind the myth to divert suspicion ...
- The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs: A story difficult to pin
down, because despite babysitters and children in their care being
killed in movies (especially of the slasher variety) to be slaughtered
quite frequently (look no further than the original Halloween),
our documentarians had to go all the way back to the 1950's to find a
case of a babysitter actually being murdered while on duty.
- The Killer Clown: Over the years (and somehow linked to the
almost total decline of the classic tenttop circus), the character of
the clown has transformed from a harmless circus character into a
creepy creature capable of anything that's evil - interestingly
especially in the Chicago area. Now what's the cause of that, and what
might one of the most notorious serial killers, John Wayne Gacy, have
to do with it?
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Every serious horror fan will probably love Killer Legends
because it really goes to the core of some urban legends that literally
influenced dozens of popular genre films and takes them apart, but without
the sensationalism found in waaay too many of today's documentaries, but
based on solid research, story of cold cases, interviews of witnesses or -
since some of these cases date decades back - at leas locals, on-site
investigations and the like, it explains where the myths' deviations from
the actual stories might spring from via interviews with experts on
urban legends, and it uncovers that the truths behind the myths are often
much more scary than the actual myths.
To make it short, if you're into urban myths and/or the horror films
based on them, this is a must-see!
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