Editor’s Note: This review is the fourth in our series on folklore adapted to film. Past reviews are posted on our ‘Reviews’ page.

When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Director: Fred Walton
Starring: Charles Durning and Carol Kane
The story goes like this: a teenaged girl is baby sitting two young children while their parents go out for the night. [...]

Editor’s Note: This review is the third in our series on folklore adapted to film. Past reviews are posted on our ‘Reviews’ page.

Alligator
Directed by Lewis Teague
Starring Robert Forster and Robin Riker
One of the earliest urban legends I can recall hearing was that alligators practically clogged the sewer systems of most major cities. My second grade [...]

The FATE Magazine blog linked to this today, and I found it worth my time.
I’ve seen a lot of ghost photographs over the years, and they mostly look like artifacts of poor photography and faulty equipment, but I’m fascinated by the idea of an art gallery displaying ghost Polaroids. I wish more people with an [...]

Editor’s Note: This review is the second in our series on folklore adapted to film. Past reviews are posted on our ‘Reviews’ page.

The Harvest
Written and Direct by David Marconi
Starring Miguel Ferrer, Leilani Sarelle
“The crime begins when a business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day.
A person in [...]

Editor’s Note: This review is the first in a series on folklore adapted to film. The whole series will be posted to our new ‘Reviews’ page.

The Vanishing Hitchhiker stands out as one of the oldest, and most frequently told, of urban legends. In fact, the term ‘urban legend’ became known to the general public after [...]

We’re taking a break from working on the first post of our new review series, and came across a cool collection of Haunted Mansion themed desktop wallpapers from the Ghost Relations blog.  The Strangetastic staff read Ghost Relations regularly, but somehow we missed this post when it went up in August.
Fortunately, we live by the [...]

The end of our Mystery House series raises the question, what can readers expect from Strangetastic? Good question, and we’re glad you asked.
Starting Monday, Stephen begins a weekly series exploring folklore adapted to film, and for the first few months he’ll explore  the role of urban legends in Strangetastic’s favorite genre: horror.
Podcasting and horror fiction [...]