Urban Legend
1998 Directed by Jamie Blanks
Synopsis
It Happened To Someone Who Knows Someone You Know... You're Next.
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at the gas station when not looking, into reality.
Cast
Studio
Popular reviews
More-
After Scream, the surge of pale imitations was inevitable. It happened in the sixties with Psycho, it happened in the seventies and the eighties with Halloween and, as sure as night will always turn to day, it happened in the nineties and the noughties too. Whilst the slasher genre’s more recent reinvention has been the result of unnecessary and uninspired remakes, the temporary return to form of the nineties came and went without so much as a whisper. Other than Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, it’s tough to name any memorable slasher from the era of my childhood.
Urban Legend, however, is one of the genre’s true success stories. It’s predictable, it’s nonsensical and it’s…
-
A very typical 90s slasher film indeed. The plot is a little different, all the murders follow a particular patter which should lead you to guessing the correct killer if you pay attention closely, but it doesn't really have a hell of a lot going for it.
As everyone probably already knows, the 90s was a haven for the reinvented slasher film after Scream made them popular again. Along with I Know What You Did Last Summer, its sequel (and the Scream sequels) and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Urban Legend is probably one of the most popular of that era. It follows the blueprint very closely of what a slasher should be, but I think it gets away with it.…
-
As most everyone will know, Scream made slasher films popular again, and the mid-late 90s were filled with movies trying to capitalize on Scream's unexpected success. Enter Urban Legend. What's so interesting to me about these 90s slasher films is, unlike many of the 80s slasher films (which came about due to the success of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street), is that many are actually entertaining horror films. Urban Legends fits that category as well.
The worst part of Urban Legends has to be the performance by Alicia Witt. She is entirely lifeless and unbelievable the entire movie, which makes her boring as hell to watch. Jared Leto is great, as is Rebecca Garyheart, which…
-
One of the better SCREAM rip offs, this one along with I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, is a cracking 90's slasher! Has everything you want as well, great death scenes,creepy looking killer! So go out and watch this,throwback to the 80's slashers of years gone by!
-
DING DING DING DING DING
this video says it all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNCo-qb84Y
Recent reviews
More-
The only thing I remember about this is that when I saw it in the theatre two very elderly women were sitting beside me, knitting and seemingly really into the movie. It was a brief glimpse at my future and it scared me more than the movie.
-
Slasher films rock.
-
I like to think of this as a rip off of Scream, it is trying to be self referential, it fails a little but it does try some interesting things. I like the fact that they make a joke of the killers motives, I like the number of red herrings and they do try. I think that if you can have a little patience with this film it makes a fun watch.
-
Not sure if parody or playing it straight. Either way, it's OK - forgettable overall, but there's an alright premise there, and some well-played memorable scenes and twists.
-
DING DING DING DING DING
this video says it all
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNCo-qb84Y -
“Düstere Legenden” darf ohne Zweifel zu den besseren Horrorfilmen gezählt werden und kann auch zehn Jahre nach seiner Veröffentlichung punkten. Der Film hält für den Erstseher so manche Überraschung bereit und wenn man das Ende noch nicht kennt, kann man dies so nicht vorhersehen.
Der Film kann vor allem auf gelungene Slashersequenzen zurückgreifen. Regisseur Jamie Blanks (Silent Number, Storm Warning) schafft es einige der bekanntesten und interessantesten düsteren Legenden in den Film einzubauen und lässt den Zuschauer dabei einige Male schlucken. Wenn in einer der düsteren Legenden ein Hund in der Mikrowelle explodiert oder eine junge Dame ihren Freund ausversehen erhängt, ist eine Delikatesse für Genrefreunde und ein echter weggucker für zartere Gemüter.
Überraschenderweise hat “Düstere Legenden” auch einige gute…
-
Post-Scream drivel about a killer on a college campus where they try really hard to convince the Board of Regents that an Urban Legends course is a legit class. Features one nice little gag when Joshua Jackson turns on a radio, several kills that are streeeeeetched to fit the trappings of the titular bits of folklore, a couple of appearances by horror legends slumming it in this movie, and the Noxema girl (if you remember that thing). Low on the late-90s horrors totem pole, but not terrible.
-
I hated this film when I first saw it in the theater in 1998. It had too many of the trappings of then-modern horror. 15 years later it is a little more enjoyable through the eyes of nostalgia as a time capsule of an era gone by. Still a really silly film.
-
After scream tapped into a fresh horror angle, countless rip-offs such as this shit seemed to come out every week. There is nothing original about this at all. We already did this, move on hollywood, NEXT!