So what is an urban legend after all? A fictional story of a sick and sneaky mind, or the exception that proves the rule? Some directors have tried to answer these questions for us, sometimes with great success, but unfortunately in most cases they only succeeded to contribute more “B movies” to the film industry. See what we mean with these films that are based on creepy urban legends. Also, one should keep in mind that this “film’s” director is a fanatical conservative activist named Patrick Matrisciana, and it wouldn’t surprise us at all if these days he’s working on another “film,” this time about conspiracies surrounding president Obama. However, soon after she finds out that what the “crazy” driver was trying to really do was save her from the intimidating passenger sitting in the backseat, holding an axe (which she somehow amazingly never noticed). Let’s be honest, this urban legend was probably created by an eye doctor who tried to attract new clients, right? As for the film’s theme? Two teenage couples (what else?) traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends end up as prisoners of an insane, strange, and sadistic family of serial killers that practices cannibalism, witchcraft, and other crazy, evil rituals. True or not, the urban legend made the family enough money via the book’s and movie’s success to live the rest of their lives comfortably. One way or another, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the film’s directors, got inspired by the relatively modern urban legend, hired the ultimate badass, Jason Statham, and that’s how we got one of the craziest and most awesome action films of the past few years. Keep in mind that the directors wanted to make the film more intense and as such, the hero is lacking not just a kidney but his heart too, but then again these are just mere details, aren’t they? Unfortunately, we will never know what really happened with the curious case of Doris Bither, whose life inspired Frank De Felitta to write a book by which director Sidney J. Furie was inspired to make one of the best movies of this kind, which the mighty Martin Scorsese placed high on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time. If you liked what you just read, then you are going to love these 25 Ghastly Characters You Wouldn’t Want To Meet In Real Life.
