Sentences with phrase «on urban legends»

The disc is packed with welcome extras ranging from an information - packed fifteen - minute featurette with director Shear concerning the transfer process from Super16 to digital to 35 mm, to an occasionally interesting interview with Jan Brunvald, the sociologist / author of several volumes on urban legends (of which The Mexican Pet is my favorite).

Helen Mirren is an actress who needs no introduction starring as Sarah Winchester, wife and widow to the son of Oliver Winchester, creator of Winchester Firearms; «Winchester» calls on the urban legend of the Winchester Mystery House.

«Maniac Men: Interview with Songwriters Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky» (11 mins., HD) offers a pretty humorous take on the urban legend that sprang up after Flashdance that the song «Maniac» was in some way informed by Spinell's turn.

Distancing itself from the first two movies, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer finds its requisite group of teens pulling a July 4th prank based on the urban legend of those characters.

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This might be the most random urban legend on this list.

Its an Urban legend that Darwin admitted to god on his death bed, just a little research on your part would be need to know that fact.

But it appears that what was going on here was not that — nor was it the hell fire and brimstone stuff of urban legend.

Fans can explore more popular food urban legends like the five second rule, gum taking seven years to digest and more at CookingChannelTV.com/FactOrFiction, and can join the conversation on twitter using #FactOrFiction.

I think we mothers are hardest on ourselves, trying to live up to the urban legend of the perfect mother.

You can compare it to the Ted Williams [urban legend in baseball]-- they say he could see the stitching on the ball [of the incoming pitch] rotate, and that he would know by the rotation whether he was getting a fastball or a curveball.

Busted Science and urban legend face off in Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition, a new traveling exhibit based on the Discovery Channel's hit TV show.

Although there is an urban legend that the world will end this year based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar, some researchers think a 40 - year - old computer program that predicts a collapse of socioeconomic order and massive drop in human population in this century may be on target

DO N'T DO IT Urinating on a wound to clean it in an emergency has become fodder for urban legend, but new research debunks the idea that urine is sterile.

Each week millions watch Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, aka the MythBusters, test urban legends on their Discovery Channel TV show.

Based on this one scene in a popular movie from more than 30 years ago — and an Eddie Murphy comedy at that — the urban legend has perpetuated that beef somehow blocks up your intestines, colon... you name it.

As the case often with myths and «urban legends,» many of the these are based on facts that have been misunderstood and twisted.

This story might be one to add to the realm of urban legend: a friend of a friend was a little down on her luck with love and money.

I love the information on the best dating sites and how she addresses the urban legends about how online dating doesn't work.

The premise is your basic urban legend middle class nightmare: five guys let loose in a wild drug and alcohol fueled Las Vegas bachelor party, complete with a sexy stripper who's willing to do a little business on the side.

Unfortunately, this macabre movie is marked by a fatal flaw, specifically, the fact that it's based on more unsubstantiated urban legends than authentic Darwin Awards cases.

What we've got here is your standard grade horror flick in the vein of Scream and Urban Legend, revolving around a mysterious killer devising a supposed revenge plot — a geeky kid who got a Carrie pulled on him in 6th grade.

This one puts him back in the water, only this time on an island off of the coast of Thailand, where an urban legend of a paradise beach proves itself true.

Opening almost as an Indiana Jones - type adventure story that mixes real - life facts with mythology and urban legends, we begin with the intelligent and fearless Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) giving us the necessary details on the story of the Philosopher's Stone (yes, this sometimes feels like we're watching a Harry Potter movie), a mythical bit of alchemy treasure that could be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind if she can get her hands on it.

The upcoming Warner Bros. film Smallfoot casts Channing Tatum, Gina Rodriguez, and Zendaya for an animated spin on the Bigfoot urban legend.

She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming - of - age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).

The television news reporter's story is the stuff of urban legend: she achieved notoriety in 1974 after shocking the world by taking her own life live on air.

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This is the game that spawned the widely - believed urban legend about the Japanese government banning Enix from releasing Dragon Quest games on weekdays due to masses of people skipping work or school to pick it up.

«Tulip Fever» was on the verge of becoming something of an urban legend before its release on September 1.

Monsters lurk everywhere in pop culture — novels, comic books, TV shows, urban legends — but today, we're focusing on killers who were born in the movies.

Although it is interesting to note that there is a legend (perhaps an urban one) director Bob Clark (Porky's, Baby Geniuses) claimed to have developed an idea for a sequel similar to this film set on Halloween that he passed on to Carpenter, which became the impetus for Halloween itself.

The story of Christine Chubbuck — the broadcaster who shot herself on live TV in 1974 — was an urban legend, but now two films are bringing her story to life

In Bruce Van Dusen's American indie road movie, «Backseat,» the uptight intellectual who digs into psychology and philosophy for his small talk and the 10 - watt buddy who embraces urban legend as cultural fact hit the road, in the ugliest car on the planet, to meet actor Donald Sutherland in Montreal.

But ED's call for equity action was not based on fairy tales or urban legends.

Other Urban Legends include: Humphrey Bogart was the original Gerber baby on their baby food ads, the FBI monitors public libraries and notes who reads «subversive» books, and my favorite: If the entire population of China jumped up at the same time, the US would be swamped by a tidal wave.

Be prepared for a whole new crop of urban legends to erupt based (right or wrong) on many of Muse's findings.

Authors Bryan Cohen, T. Paulin, Dalya Moon, Alexia Purdy, Kara Legend, Deanna Roy, Susan Kaye Quinn, Kevin Hardman, Alex Albrinck, J.A. Huss, V.M Black and Mimi Strong are coming together for a massive superhero and urban fantasy box set on December 11th.

A fun story based on the ghostly satanic urban legends of Fuller Park, Athens, Texas.

For whatever reason, credit card urban legends seem to continue to circulate on the Web no matter how much energy goes into debunking the myths.

There are many urban legends and idioms surrounding cats and their resilience — including the idea that cats have nine lives or land on their feet all the time.

Have you heard that urban legend about people getting fired from their job and / or arrested because they tested positive on -LSB-...]

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Don't Knock Twice is a first - person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

Fuel Entertainment, Xbox Entertainment Studios and LightBox Entertainment plan on digging up portions of the now famous dumping site, which is located near First Street and White Sands Boulevard, which is now the ultimate urban legend in the retro video game community.

Check out this story on how an urban legend came to be.

Wales Interactive previously worked on horror title Don't Knock Twice, which wove a tale of an urban legends of an old haunted house, and a vengeful spirit that can be summoned by knocking upon its door.

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It's one of video game history's most famous urban legends, and we might finally be on the brink of real video evidence.

VR Horror Movie Tie - In «Don't Knock Twice» screams its way to retail on September 29th for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR Based on the psychological urban legend, a mother must find and save her daughter in the confines of a terrifying grand manor.