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Summary: extremly intelligent slasher
Review: This movie starts out great and just keeps getting better. The opening has you gripped and it sucks you in right until the last scene. At the start you see a young woman pull up at a service station in the middle of no -where and ask a creepy old guy to fill up her car with gas. It is stormy outside so she just wants to get going to her destination, (which, as you might have guessed, she dose not get to). The guy asks her to come in for something to do with the card she tried to pay him on and then seems to try to attack her. She cold-cocks him and runs to her car and drives off. After this he stumbles after her shouting ' there is some one in the back of the car! '. She is then promptly decapatated by a hooded guy with a double edged axe ! The film then starts to go back to the slasher rules of trying to make you think that every one is the killer and the n proving there not. There are several very intelligent death scenes not sticking to the slasher rules and this film actually gives the killer a half decent motive for gratuitous violence. the ending is the best one to any film for along time, apart from the sixth sense, and there is another twist apart from the usual whodunnit! oh yeah and parents ignore the bloodiest teen slasher fest .... on the video cover cos belive me the blood is very minimal! see it now. .....
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Summary: A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY
Review: Urban Legend (1998) Urban Legend is an absolutely awful slasher movie that's so bad,it might make you see a Doctor because it sickened you knowing that it exists! A previous reviewer said he thinks it's an insult to the slasher genre.I totally agree with him,and you should too! The plot is extremely predictable.Director Jamie Blanks should take lessons from Steven Spielberg,because his direction is incredibly bad.He makes the film move slowly,doesn't really know where he wants it to go,and his direction is so weak, you'll know what will happen before it happens.Trust me.You will. The acting is downright terrible.It's so sad to see a talented actor like Robert Englund wasted in this pile of crud.This includes Brad Dourif,who has an uncredited role as the Gas Station worker in the beginning. The acting is just terrible.Witt's character is strictly one- dimensional,Gayheart is terrible as Brenda,and face it: the other actors are just plain horrible. The screenplay is hideous.It makes the screenplay in Cobra look like it should win an Academy Award for best original screenplay! It's sooo bad,I don't think I'll dig further. Urban Legend is a simply terrible,awful,sickening horror movie that should've never been made in the first place.There is only one scary thing about it: The fact that it has been made. Steer way clear and rent a real horror movie like Phantasm. Trust me,and avoid this like the plague. PS: If you hate this movie as much as me,be prepared for Urban Legend 2,which should be released sometime around this year!
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Summary: Predictable, illogical, avoidable, forgettable.
Review: Films like this really annoy me. 'Urban Legend' had a great premise, had an infinite store of ideas to play upon, and yet the execution was so diabolical that it has ruined what could have been a decent film had someone else written it. It's a real shame that it takes itself completely seriously, because if it had been played as a camp comedy-horror it would have been hysterical; instead, it's such a poor imitation of all the reasonably good teen slasher flicks of the latter end of the 90's ('Scream', 'I Know What You Did Last Summer', etc., etc.) that it's not even funny. When something is so bad that it's not funny, then you know something is seriously wrong. And it's strange that none of the cast and crew (including horror veteran Robert Englund) realised what a duff movie it was. Only Joshua Jackson seemed to grasp that it wasn't supposed to be played straight, and he isn't exactly in it for very long. When the talent is killed off early on, you know it can only get worse. And believe me, it does. The acting is plastic in the 'hey Barbie, meet Ken' variety. But that could be glossed over if only the story had been coherent. Tragically, it's even worse, ripping off scenes left, right and centre and hoping that nobody notices. So maybe the direction could save it? Think again. You watch it and spend the whole time thinking: was that the scary bit, or is this the scary bit? But that said, it is a whole lot of fun. Yep, me and my girlfriend spent the whole car journey home from the cinema having great fun discussing the various holes in the plot, some so big you can drive a lorry through them. We got up to nineteen serious breaches of rationality before we gave up, and that is the honest to God truth. Now, not giving too much away, I feel I have to reveal one major irrationality that underlays the whole film: the reason for the killings is that there was a car accident and a young man died. So the vengeful killer, rather than torturing the driver whose fault it was by killing off all her friends, kills her and proceeds to subject the innocent passenger of this car to all sorts of mental suffering. Does that make sense? More to the point, who cares? By the time this is revealed, you're just gagging to watch the poor unfortunate star strung up for her 'Barbie's plastic inanimate car' acting abilities. Oh, and the killer overpowers several young, powerful men, an old man, a security guard, and survives a fall from a third story window, despite being somewhat lacking in both the size and muscles departments. Odd that... I liked the way the events of this film become an urban legend at the end, but even the execution of that scene is dire. If you want to see a decent film on a Saturday night, don't see this. If you want to see a hysterically bad film on a Saturday night, don't see this. Quite frankly, don't see this on any day of the week, at any time, for any reason other than as a step-by-step guide on how not to make a movie. But I have an urban legend for you: did you hear the story about six youths who rented a 'scary' movie late one winter's night...they all slept really well and in the morning demanded their money back. Oh no, wait...that was true.
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Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: This movie is terrible with a truly horrible ending. There isn't one part in the whole movie that had me scared in the least bit. Most parts are so predictible it's sickening. The acting is awful, it moves at a snail's pace, and the killer isn't believable at all. There is no way that the killer would've been able to pull off what they did. After SCREAM and I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, this movie was really uncalled for. The first scene gave you hope for a half-way decent flick, but that didn't happen. If you want my advice, don't waste your time or money on this.
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Summary: GOOD MOVIE GREAT TWIST
Review: I recently rented this movie along with Phantasm series and it turned out to be great movie it used alittle bit from the Candyman theme and had the killer have use urban legends as a way to kill people very good plus throw in abit of who-done-it. by the end of the movie I was surprised about who the killer was I had the wrong person to me thats how good the movie was. I will not ruin it but I will say that I would like to see the person who was the killer play that type of role in another movie. plus I just found out after seen the X-man movie that there is another urban legend to coming out soon I saw the poster at the theater. anyway I highly recommened this movie.
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Summary: it looked good on paper.
Review: well this is probably the worst of all the teen slasher films but still okay.scream and i know what you did last summer are better. the storyline gets you hooked and the acting isnt all that bad. the ending wasnt a five star one but it kept it interesting. the killer was a big suprise. but they shouldnt make the killer the hottest girl in the movie.
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Summary: lame
Review: Now, the trailer for this movie made it look pretty good. But it hid the fact that this movie was a complete RIP OFF. First of all, i'm ok if someone gets inluenced by a movie and turns a scene into their own in a way that we wouldn't even recognize it. But with this movie, it was just too obvious. They just copied what had success. Some of the rip offs include: The killer calling someone during a party, changing the voice (scream), a bloody message written on the wall (i know what you did last summer), the fact that the viewer guesses the killer (scream), and teens as main characters (almost every 90's horror movie). Also, if you're a Simpsons fan, you might recognize the opening as something a little too similar as the story that Otto told Lisa while he was living with the family. Also, it's rare that I say this, but I just really didn't care about the characters. I, myself, am a screenwriter hopeful, and I swear to God, I always tell myself that my biggest fear is making a really amateurish horror movie, like Urban Legend. They just tried to hard.
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Summary: Just-okay horror flick but cool concept
Review: Urban Legend is an okay horror-flick. For the late '90s, it is quite good compared to some of the other genre pieces, but had it emerged between, say 1972 and 1982 (a 10-year period which was probably the absolute golden age of horror) it would have died a death quite quickly. The concept, of course, is cool--a serial killer based on "urban legends," those stories we have always taken for granted to be true (eg pop rocks plus Pepsi will kill you; the "headlights game," etc), but having this kind of stuff happen on a college campus has become kind of a cliche in itself, and some of the actors were kind of second-stringers. Some cool moments abound, and the very ending was kind of cool if also cliched in retrospect. Overall, a harmless movie to rent, but not a deathless classic.
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Summary: Not as violent as I thought it would be
Review: This movie was definately not as violent as I had first thought it would be. It wasn't graphic violence that was in the film, unlike that of movies where you see them being killed up close like the 'Scream Trilogy' (although those were wicked films). I thought this movie had an excellent storyline to it that was very original. Someone killing others through the means of 'Urban Legends'. I shall not reveal who is the killer but let you see for yourself........ Don't Get Scared Now!
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Summary: Not scary, or funny, or sexy...
Review: The idea for this film, a serial killer "bringing to life" various urban legends about murders and other mayhem is good, and the opening scene is clever and, to me at least, surprising. However, as a whole, the movie was not very scary, partly because the occassional little jokes strike the wrong tone; a scene in which the central character sees that one of her friends has been hacked up with an axe by the mysterious killer should not end with a lame visual joke (the assassin looks at the central character through a window and waves his or her gloved fingers coquettishly) that defuses all the tension and fear the chase and its deadly conclusion have built up. And these jokes are not funny, so the film is neither really frightening, nor really amusing. Despite the very attractive cast, the film is not at all sexy, either, as one might have hoped. Finally, the ending is very disappointing, because who the murderer turns out to be is not in any way convincing; all logic and all the clues point to other people. The killer's identity is a big surprise, then, but not a clever and fun surprise (as in "The Sixth Sense", where a very astute viewer could have figured out the surprise because of the subtle hints) but a surprise that leaves you feeling cheated. The only way you could have guessed who the killer was is by figuring out which character is probably least physically able to pull off the elaborate (and Herculean-strength requiring) murders. To temper my criticism, I should note that visually, I liked the film (I watched the widescreen version); there is decent camera work and not only the girls (Ms. Gayheart in particular) but their college campus and buildings are very pretty; and also that my girlfriend claimed to be scared.
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