nightwishouge I started my journey as a horror fan in the late '90s, during the post-Scream slasher revival, so I have a nostalgic affection for these films. I've been revisiting a few of them this October to get into the proper Halloween spirit, and I must admit that they don't hold up all that well, though I'm not entirely surprised by that.Urban Legend has as its center gimmick the conceit that a killer stalking a college campus is utilizing urban legends (hence the title) to dispatch of clueless coeds. This leads to a few fun set pieces that function as sort of a Rogues' Gallery of so many of the myths you remember reading about on Snopes. Unfortunately, the urban legend that most frightened me as a child--the one about the girl cowering in her dorm room as someone scratches aggressively at her door, only to discover in the morning that it was her mortally wounded roommate attempting to secure help after being attacked by an escaped maniac--is nowhere to be found.The writing is pretty clunky. All the characters are archetypes (the Frat Boy, the Prankster, the Supportive but Nondescript Best Friend, and, of course, the Virginal Heroine) and they constantly spew Kevin-Williamson-esque "hip" dialogue replete with pop culture references and colorful epithets. Everybody spends a good deal of time gaslighting the Virginal Heroine for absolutely no reason and very little makes sense. The direction, by the same token, is competent but never steers away from the ridiculousness of the premise (the killer's schemes to reenact the urban legends are awfully contingent on coincidence and luck). There's no shortage of unintentionally hilarious moments.At the same time, it's never boring, nor does it ever become too insulting to your intelligence (which is to say, it is insulting to your intelligence, but just insulting enough, I suppose). And the cast is good, doing what they can with the flat material they're given. Look for fun cameos by horror veterans Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund, Brad "Chucky" Dourif, and Danielle Harris of Halloween 4 fame as the raging Goth queen, whom we know we are meant to condemn in our hearts because she is so crazy she has to take--gasp!--Lithium.

lorcan-61881 Like I know what you did last summer this is a complete copy of scream. I didn't like this film at all,the acting was cheesy,the deaths took life an hour to happen and it was just a stale or dull plot. I recommend not to see this if you want to see a horrible version of scream. The only good thing about this was Danielle Harris(Halloween 4-5',stake land)that was good but of course the best thing in the film had to be killed just because knowing my luck. This is a bad movie just like I know what you did last summer. I'm not watching the sequels,urban legend 2 or the third TV movie titled 'Bloody Mary'. Urban legend as i said is a terrible no good piece of trash thrown to teenagers to get loads of money.

keithbrown-90195 Urban Legend leans very heavily on slasher tropes. Think of any slasher movie cliché and it's probably in this movie. There are cheap jump scares, a twist ending, and inept authority figures. In spite of all this, I really loved this movie. The kills are brutal and mean, and they're very creative for the most part. The opening scene put a huge smile on my face. The characters are standard, but I liked them. Natalie is our final girl, but she was probably the most boring character in the movie. Jared Leto plays Paul, the campus reporter, and he doesn't even look much older nowadays! Other characters include Brenda, Natalie's best friend; Damon, the practical joker; Tosh, the goth roommate; Reese, campus security; Parker, the frat guy; and Sasha, the sexy radio DJ. The movie is a whodunit, so we're constantly guessing who the killer might be. Apart from the opening, I'd say my favorite scene would have to be Sasha's chase at the radio station. It's the classic scene with a hot girl in a tiny dress being chased through the hallways by the crazy killer. There's an urban legend twist though, because her screams for help are broadcast over the radio so all her friends hear her die. It's an awesome scene with good camera-work and lighting and music. All in all, Urban Legend is a fun watch, with some classic scenes and a few famous actors in cool roles. Give it a chance!

RavenGlamDVDCollector And, yeah, this is a spoiler SUPER alert, do NOT read further if you haven't seen the movie! First off, I am not a fan of the slasher movie genre. As RavenGlamDVDCollector, I do go after the pretty girls, though. My gripe with slashers is of course that blood and glamor doesn't mix. Who wants to see a pretty girl cut up? (That is, of course, a stupid question that I do not want to hear the answer to) I'm a big Rebecca Gayheart fan ever since her BEVERLY HILLS 90210 days, she was sorely missed by me when her character was killed off in that series, and so it came to pass that RavenGlam research showed the incredibly hot young cast of URBAN LEGEND. There are two sequels, direct-to-video, that seem entirely less promising, but URBAN LEGEND the original sure has a lot of pretty girls, with Tara Reid thrown in for good measure. Alicia Witt I knew from BODIES, REST & MOTION in a short but vivid sequence, aside from an absolutely vague memory of the kid in 90's sitcom CYBILL It is way beneath me to discuss the bloody scenes in this movie. They are extremely far-fetched, and as it turns out, FINAL SPOILER ALERT, committed by best friend Brenda. However berserk any human might get, and, yes, we all have it in us to kill, but come on! Rebecca Gayheart could execute that big blonde guy by hanging him? The bloody strangulation scene deemed as a 'suicide' is a symptom of a terminally-ill plot. And everybody wears that freaking abysmal style of coat. Even next to an indoor swimming pool when it was clearly shown to be a normal day, nobody else was remotely dressed for winter, and that thing was designed for Eskimos.The potholes in the plot are big enough for two army trucks to disappear into with no survivors.Best thing about the movie, Alicia Witt. Okay, I do agree, she wasn't scared enough, but in some scared scenes, she was just ooh-shame-what-a-beautiful-scared-bunny, let-me-hug-ya! Tara Reid was an absolute disappointment, I am very sorry to say, she could have done a lot better. And speaking of Tara, the trailer shows a bikini dance flash or something like that, just mere seconds, but there is no such scene in the movie, and no deleted scene on the DVD.As for Rebecca, I suppose you gave it a good shot, but, really!