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Summary: This is a great movie
Review: For people who like horror movies, like Scream or I Know What You Did Last Summer, this will be one of the best... The story is very cool and deaths are really creative. The only defect I found on this film was that the killer is a Highlander!!!! ...honestly...
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Summary: This is an AWESOME movie, everyone should own it!
Review: k. This is one heck of a cool movie! As you can tell by the title, it is a horror movie. I think that they did a really good job of explaning them along with giving them to you in real campus life! YOu would have to be a fan of horror to appreciate this movie, but it is awesome and everyone should see it!
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Summary: It's fun, but if you want quality fun, see The Others
Review: Urban Legend: rated R, 1 hour 40 minutesThe cast of Urban Legend is proficient, but not excellent. Rebecca Gayheart of (movie) "Scream 2," Alicia Witt of "Cybill," Jared Leto of "My So Called Life," Joshua Jackson of "Dawson's Creek," and John Neville of "The X-Files" give satisfactory performances, but none dare to be anything more than mediocre.
In the dramatic opening scene of the movie, a mysterious person in the backseat of the car beheads a college girl (Natasha Gregson Wagner). After many more college students and administrators are killed, it is later found out that the murderer at Pendleton University is mimicking the tales of commonly told Urban Legends. Excitement builds up as the audience anxiously awaits the moment in which the killer will finally be revealed.
Brutal killings including heinous decapitation and deathly asphyxiation occur frequently throughout Urban Legend. One almost grows accustomed to the gruesome sight of a human cadaver. At one point in the movie, a college student "gets a call coming from inside the house." "Scream" anyone? Of course after receiving the phone call, the young man within minutes dies an appalling death that should strike fear into the minds of any viewer. Believe it or not, on rare occasions, the audience is spared the display of what would have otherwise been a grotesque corpse.
Urban Legend is a suspenseful movie that contains an ample amount of homicides, executed with a mild quantity of gore. The ending is rather absurd, yet somehow awfully entertaining, as the entire movie could be described. It is terrifying fun at the cost of a clever plot. Well, you can't have it all. Unintelligent, and purely enjoyable, Urban Legend, directed by Jamie Blanks, also starring Robert Englund and Loretta Devine, secures itself a B.
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Summary: eh
Review: I saw this movie on TV the other day and, honestly, the movie has potential to be a kinda good scary movie but the low mentality of these students that we were supposed to believe were in college shocked me. I've known 5th graders that are more intelligent than the young adults portrayed in this movie!
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Summary: legends that kick ass
Review: this was cool. a killer hackin off people by urban legends..........how original. great slasher movie one of the better ones. and tara reid in it!!!!!
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Summary: 'Urban' is Complex, Suspensful,and Restrained in Violence
Review: !Heather's Teenage Son!
The reason for this being oen of my favorite slashers is the original concept that is uses: The deaths happen based on an urban legend. This different concept & plot makes this film a fresh & stylish horror film, and also make it quite entertaining! However, it's sequel falls short of the suspence the original had and just plain sucks anyway, but part one is great! I reccomend it highly...
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Summary: Your typical slasher horror movie, just a different concept
Review: I had to look at this poster everyday I was at school, for 2+ years, as it was in my registration/art class for some reason. So I probably know the poster better than I do the film!
I love this movie. It starts off with a girl singing along (badly) to Total Eclipse Of The Heart, which is one of my fave songs ever since it was played at my uncle Malcolm's wedding. And it always makes me feel sad. Basically, you've got another slasher movie, cashing in on the success of I Know What You Did Last Summers and Screams, but bringing in a different concept. And that's always cool when they do that, rather than just churn out another slasher flick.
Plus, it has a fantastic cast. Brad Dourif (who's uncredited for some reason) plays a stuttering gas station attendant, much like his role in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which was a good ting on the director's part, as he's instantly recognisable because of that. (He also does the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play movies) Also starring is your usual teen movies actors and actresses: Joshua Jackson (with a very bad dye job, and watch out for the bit where he starts the car, and the Dawson's Creek theme blasts out!), Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Tara Reid and Rebecca Gayheart. Tara Reid is nothing special in this, although there's plenty of cleavage on show for the men in the audience, she basically plays a dumb blonde. Someone who can't be missed is Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund. He plays up his college professor role to the max, playing one of the main suspects in the killings.
However, there are some severe plotholes in this movie, particularly towards the end. Alicia Witt is stabbed very badly, and looks in pain, but as soon as she gets off the bed, she's fine. No one tends to her wound, and the knife could have hit anything. The cop lives. (Enough said, and she manages to turn up for the sequel) The killer only has a motive for a couple of his/her victims, and from then on it just seems like random killings. The killer is shot (twice), gets thrown through a car windshield, and ends up in a river, yet still manages to live?!
If you ignore all these plotholes and there are probably more, then you'll survive the movie, and probably get the second one!
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Summary: There's someone in the back seat
Review: Great flick - cool chicks. I've heard the stories before but that's what made the movie work so well.
Great
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Summary: I love Urban Legend!
Review: This has the scariest opening of any horror movie ever. My fave slasher movie has to be HALLOWEEN but this one is right up there.
I wish Christopher Young's complete score was available. I love it so much - the Milan release contains only 15 mins of the score.
I liked this movie much more than "Scream" and "I Know..." but those movies were still pretty cool. Urban Legend 2 was kind of dumb.
The death in the radio station and the scene with the hanging rope were so freaky. I also loved the pop rocks and soda. I'd heard all of these stories before so it made this movie so much cooler.
Great flick - one to see again and again.
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Summary: Slick, stylish and brilliant. The best 90's slasher BY FAR!!
Review: This has to be the best horror movie made during the post-"Scream" slasher revival. It blows "Scream" away (even though it clearly exists because of Craven's success). It's just plain cool. A killer using urban legends to whack his victims; why hadn't anyone thought of this before 1998?
I wont repeat the synopsis of the movie (plenty of other reviews below this one do exactly that) suffice to say that it has the most jaw-dropping opening of a movie ever. Brad Dourif (you just know that the filmmakers were riffing on his part from "Cuckoo's Nest") is amazing. Robert Englund is perfectly cast as the red-herring you just know won't turn out to be the guy - it's too obvious.
The cast are fabulous and the self-referential humor is kept in check - there's just enough to be amusing without going too far (Scream just completely overkilled the concept).
The cinematography is so beautiful in this movie, it's hard to believe that the 26 year old director of this film had never directed a feature prior to this movie. He also directed 2001's "Valentine" which I loved also. Jamie Blanks clearly loves his 80's slasher movies and has so far delivered two brilliant homages to those movies. I can't wait to see his next movie.
Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson and Jared Leto are all brilliant in this movie. It was cool to see a pre-Smallville Michael Rosenbaum (with hair!) in this roll. Hootie rules! And Loretta Devine was the bomb! Pam Grier wannabe security guard from hell!
I give Urban Legend a strong 5 stars and wish that every horror fan would see this movie. If you've seen it - see it again.
Forget the crummy, pathetic sequel - it was awful. Lame, lame, lame. They must have run out of good urban legends by then. Just watch this original masterpiece again and check out "Valentine" if you haven't already. Finally a slasher film directed by someone with some style. Screw "Scream". If this movie had come out in the 80s it would have completely re-energized the entire slasher genre. I also love the fact that it doesn't poke fun of the genre that it exists within. It takes itself just seriously enough to pull off the gag. (Not too serious though).
Tara Reid is gorgeous (I'm sure the director was trying to evoke Stevie Wayne from "The Fog"), Rebecca Gayheart is insanely beautiful (Noxema girl) and Alicia Witt evokes memories of Sissy Spacek from "Carrie". So many beautiful women in one movie. (Come to think of it, the cast of "Valentine" were pretty hot also - lucky guy...)
The commentary and behind the scenes docos are very entertaining. They clearly had a great time making this movie. If they make an Urban Legend 3 I hope that Jamie Blanks returns to direct it. Buy this movie if you don't already have it in your collection - it is essential late 90's slasher gold. + the trailer kicks ass.
"There's someone in the back seeeaaaat!"
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