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Title: Urban Legend (1998) |
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Review of Urban Legend
- An attractive young woman is driving her car on a dark country road and singing along to the radio. She's running out of gas and so she pulls into a gas station (run by a jittery, stuttering Brad Dourif), but then flees what seems to be an attack, only to find the real threat in her backseat: a hooded killer with an ax who takes her head off with a well-aimed swing. You've heard the story before? Not surprising, given that it's one of the more famous urban legends borrowed for Urban Legend, a post-Scream exercise in self-referential horror. The students at an ivy-covered New England college are turning up dead, the victims of a serial killer who murders in the fashion of the "apocryphal" modern myths. It's all for the benefit of good girl with a dark secret Alicia Witt, the sole witness to most of the killings. Doe-eyed Rebecca Gayheart, as her gullible best friend, and Jared Leto, the ambitious campus journalist who tracks down the secret that hangs over the school, lead a cast of pretty young women, hunky guys, and campus characters, notably the suspicious professor Robert Englund, a genre legend in his own right as the star of seven Nightmare on Elm Street films. Take away the cheeky remarks and self-awareness and it's a throwback to the 1970s' rash of teen slasher movies, where sexually active teens are sliced, diced, and otherwise slaughtered in elaborate and ingenious ways. The increasingly preposterous film is no Scream, but the modestly stylish production has its moments. --Sean Axmaker
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(5) Comments for Urban Legend
- Posted by Djinn on July 21, 2004
Innovative and entertaining. 8/10
Score: 8
- Posted by Anonnymous on November 11, 2004
it inspires you to commit the guilty pleasure on your friends, lol.
Score: 7
- Posted by Anonnymous on February 3, 2005
great but sequel was actually better (not saying that cause tara reid's character got axed literally)
Score: 9
- Posted by Anonnymous on May 4, 2005
This was a really good movie that scared the crap out of my friends.
Score: 9 - Posted by korn101 on May 9, 2005
People die in the koolest ways
Score: 9
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