15 Movies Like Urban Myths
Loved Urban Myths? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Colony
Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Train to Busan
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Exhuma
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
A Tale of Legendary Libido
A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until the travelling man decides to help him out.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
The Pirates
At the cusp of the founding of Joseon Dynasty, an envoy from China is delivering Emperor’s Ming’s Royal Seal. But nature in the form of a giant whale intervenes and swallows the royal seal. When a generous reward is offered to whomever can retrieve the royal seal from the belly of the whale, the race is on. A group of mountain bandits led by Jang Sa Jung and a group of pirates led by Yeo Wol go after the lost treasure, but who will get to to it first?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Alienoid
Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Project Wolf Hunting
While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Salmokji: Whispering Water
An incident unfolds when a film crew goes to a reservoir to update the road view where an unidentified figure was filmed, and they encounter something in the dark, deep waters.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
Peninsula
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
The Host
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
I Saw the Devil
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
The Crow
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Urban Myths.
#Alive
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.
The Wailing
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Urban Myths.