Urban Legend - A bloody hook too far.
"URBAN LEGEND" - It was a dark & stormy night - Originally published 10/18/99
Stop me if you've heard this one....
It was a dark and stormy night, and some attractive teen stars decide to get together and make a scary, highly predictable teen/slasher/flick! So in the tradition of Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Can't Believe It's Not Butter!, I give you 1998's Urban Legend.
To understand the movie Urban Legend I guess you first have to know what an urban legend is. Urban legends are those scary stories that get passed around by teens such as, the bloody hook on the door handle, the babysitter and the psycho, the fingernails on the car roof, etc. Sure we've all told them, and I admit it I have. I know what urban legends are, I just didn't know that's what they were called. I always just called them B***S***!
Urban Legend the movie, follows the perils of Natalie (Alicia Witt) who is the target of a serial killer who is using the urban legends as a guide for murdering college students, and Paul (Jared Leto), who looks like a male Courtney Cox. Good casting as Leto basically plays the Courtney Cox role from SCREAM as a reporter determined to uncover not only the identity of the killer, but the college's dark past as well.
The friends/victims are played by various and sundry young stars including Damon (Dawson's Creek's own Joshua Jackson) and Brenda (Rebecca Gayheart). The film also features Loretta Devine as Reese, the trash-talkin' tough as nails, Jackie Brown-style security guard and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund as a slightly warped professor.
The movie is pretty much standard fare as slasher flicks go. It includes lots of "running towards the danger" scenes and dead friends whose bodies vanish and reappear as needed. The audience is jerked around a several times and the writer tries to fool us into thinking that the murderer is the boyfriend, the dean, the creepy janitor, the professor and Mary-Ann. They also throw red herrings our way in the form of a student massacre that the school tries to keep hush-hush, that has evolved into an "Urban Legend" all it's own. Of course anyone who doesn't figure out the real killer's identity by at least halfway isn't really paying attention and should be punished.
Urban Legend isn't a bad movie. But it is very predictable, from the killer's identity, to the "surprising" double-twist ending. You're probably asking, "But, DON'T YOU LIKE SCARY MOVIES?" My answer is yes, but why do they all have to be so much alike? So why do I watch them? I guess I'm HOOKED!
Stop me if you've heard this one....
It was a dark and stormy night, and some attractive teen stars decide to get together and make a scary, highly predictable teen/slasher/flick! So in the tradition of Scream, Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Can't Believe It's Not Butter!, I give you 1998's Urban Legend.
To understand the movie Urban Legend I guess you first have to know what an urban legend is. Urban legends are those scary stories that get passed around by teens such as, the bloody hook on the door handle, the babysitter and the psycho, the fingernails on the car roof, etc. Sure we've all told them, and I admit it I have. I know what urban legends are, I just didn't know that's what they were called. I always just called them B***S***!
Urban Legend the movie, follows the perils of Natalie (Alicia Witt) who is the target of a serial killer who is using the urban legends as a guide for murdering college students, and Paul (Jared Leto), who looks like a male Courtney Cox. Good casting as Leto basically plays the Courtney Cox role from SCREAM as a reporter determined to uncover not only the identity of the killer, but the college's dark past as well.
The friends/victims are played by various and sundry young stars including Damon (Dawson's Creek's own Joshua Jackson) and Brenda (Rebecca Gayheart). The film also features Loretta Devine as Reese, the trash-talkin' tough as nails, Jackie Brown-style security guard and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund as a slightly warped professor.
The movie is pretty much standard fare as slasher flicks go. It includes lots of "running towards the danger" scenes and dead friends whose bodies vanish and reappear as needed. The audience is jerked around a several times and the writer tries to fool us into thinking that the murderer is the boyfriend, the dean, the creepy janitor, the professor and Mary-Ann. They also throw red herrings our way in the form of a student massacre that the school tries to keep hush-hush, that has evolved into an "Urban Legend" all it's own. Of course anyone who doesn't figure out the real killer's identity by at least halfway isn't really paying attention and should be punished.
Urban Legend isn't a bad movie. But it is very predictable, from the killer's identity, to the "surprising" double-twist ending. You're probably asking, "But, DON'T YOU LIKE SCARY MOVIES?" My answer is yes, but why do they all have to be so much alike? So why do I watch them? I guess I'm HOOKED!
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