Urban Legend

It happened to someone who knows someone you know. You're next.
It happened to someone who knows someone you know. You're next.
URBAN LEGEND (18)
D: Jamie Blanks
Tristar/Phoenix/Original Film (Neal H. Moritz, Gina Matthews & Michael McDonnell)
US 1998
100 mins

Horror

W: Silvio Horta
DP: James Chressanthis
Ed: Jay Cassidy
Mus: Christopher Young


Jared Leto (Paul Gardner), Alicia Witt (Natalie Simon), Rebecca Gayheart (Brenda Bates), Joshua Jackson (Damon Brooks), Tara Reid (Sasha Thomas), Robert Englund (Prof. Wexler), John Neville (Dean Adams)

Urban Legend: a funny of frightening story or trinket of information passed from person-to-person as though true, usually purporting to involve someone vaguely known to the story-teller.
The Scream formula is virtually recycled for this slasher horror, which dissects urban legends rather than horror classics for its plot device.
It features some inventive death scenes, all with a wink and a nod to urban myths, but there's also some moments which are absolutely ridiculous along with some hugely unconvincing performances, some of which will most than likely make you roll your eyes back into your head and yawn. A sequel followed (Urban Legends: Final Cut).         
4/10

Urban Legend
Urban Legend