Rating: 
Summary: NOT SCREAM BUT VERY VERY GOOD
Review: I LIKED THIS FILM I THOUGHT THE MURDERS WERE VERY WELL DONE AND VERY SCARY IT DOES NOT HAVE THE ATMOSPHERE OF SCREAM YES BUT IT DOES HAVE SOMTHING...SOUL PERHAPS!
THE CHARACTERS ARE VERY WELL ACTED AND ALTHOUGH MOST DIE YOU GET TO KNOW THEM ALL VERY WELL MY ONLY COMPLAINT IS THAT THE MAIN GIRL (ALICIA WIT) COMES OVER VERY WET AND UNTIL THE END OF THE MOVIE I PREFERRED HER BEST FREIND...(WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS THERE RIGHT KIDDIES).
AS FOR TENSION AND SCARES OK THERE IS NOT MUCH THAT IS ORIGINAL BUT A FEW OF THE DEATHS ARE SCARY AND SOMTIMES A LITTLE DISGUSTING (THE PRINCIPAL FOR EXAMPLE). I THOUGHT SASHA'S DEATH WAS THE SCARIEST BUT AGAIN I LIKED HER MORE THAN THE MAIN GIRL.
ALL IN ALL A GOOD NIGHT IN FILM I THINK YOU SHOULD GET THIS.
NOW I AM GONNA GO WATCH THE SEQUEL.........
Rating:
Summary: Very scary, kinda original...
Review: For experienced horror fans, this movie may seem like a copy of Scream and something else put together. Well...it kinda is. But I have a really open mind for movies I think may be good. So I rented this...and I liked it. I bought the DVD really close to when I got a DVD player, and I have watched it probably almost 10 times by now. It's not original, but it is scary, and I love the cast. Tara Reid is my favorite. So if you're looking for a scary movie to rent soon, or buy, get this one, because you never know if you will like it or not.
Rating: 
Summary: Great opening, goes downhill afterward.
Review: Alicia Witt is a college student investigating murders that seem to be based on urban legends. Interesting premise begins very well, with a tense opening sequence that actually provides some good chills, but goes downhill with repetitive stupidity, annoying characters, and the revelation of the killer and his/her motives is ludicrously bad.
Rating: 
Summary: So bad they even made a sequel to it!
Review: NOTE: Review written March 1999I think that the writer stayed awake during a sociology class long enough to get the idea for Urban Legend. Apparently, some studio executive approved this project without reading the script, assuming he or she knows how to read. Urban legend is a term which is used in reference to modern myths. An example would be the Roswell UFO incident fifty years ago. A certain number of people will always believe that it happened, whether it did or it didn't. The movie Urban Legend uses other improbable common beliefs as the basis for a serial killer's method. This is an interesting premise, but, trust me, this is no Silence of the Lambs or Seven. It's not even a I Know What You Did Last Summer. It's part of a recent phenomenon in Hollywood called I Can Make a Dumber Movie Than You Can. It could also be used as an Encyclopedia of Movie Cliches. It begins with a female college student driving alone on a dark, rainy night. She passes a gas station. The camera shows a close-up of her SUV's gas gauge. Oh, no! It's on empty! She makes it back to the station. Oh, no! The attendant is a maniac! She manages to escape. A form raises out of the back seat. Oh, no! It raises an ax! We move on to the college. It's a small, quaint school, full of old brick buildings and big trees. It's miles from nowhere. It's students are pretty, and they are sharing a brain. The president is an idiot, the teachers are eccentric, the janitor is insane, and the lone security guard is earnest but incompetent. Does all of this sound familiar? The urban legend at the school is that several students were massacred twenty-five years ago, but this was covered up by the school's administration. [Don't ask. This is a horror movie.] Of course, we know that this is no legend. Soon people start dropping like flies. To most of the students, this is tragic because the 25th Anniversary Massacre Party is in danger of being canceled. I have to mention the excellent Scream and its sequel yet again, because they are among the movies which are so good and which do so well that they spawn countless imitators, which are rarely any good. These wind up making the genre unpopular after a few years. Down the road, another classic comes along, and the cycle begins again. Urban Legend did quite well at the boxoffice. Since such movies don't have big budgets, a sequel is likely. Based on their dreadful performances, those actors which were not killed off should be available to star in it. I, on the other hand will not be available to review it. NOTE: This is the first movie in history where a student, listening to music on head phones, drifts off to sleep while her dorm mate is being strangled to death ten feet away. As I said, these kids are sharing a brain. Come to think of it, so are the people who made this movie.
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Summary: Yet another teen horror
Review: Okay, so the obvious thing to do is to compare this to 'Scream', to which this has so many similarities that it's almost almost shameful. Here too, the teens know the rules, they know not what to do. This killer is offing his victims in the style of urban legends, a good idea in itself but these urban legends quickly go downhill to the point where they seem positively invented for the sake of the movie. Actor wise, this is thankfully pretty good, with plenty of vaguely recognisable faces. Alicia Witt is quite a nice change from the regular heroine in that she's not the prettiest or the most popular. How on earth Jared Leto found himself in this cheap slasher flick though I don't know. This is a person who can act, which anyone who has seen 'American Psycho' or 'Requiem For A Dream' will know. Rebecca Gayheart completely hams it up, which at least injects some humour into the otherwise bland script. Of course the seemingly obligatory Joshua Jackson pops up. The number of teen movies that he's appeared in is almost countless - 'Cruel Intentions', 'Gossip' and 'The Skulls' to mention just a few. Saying that, the death scenes are reasonably well done, although the movie is so riddled with clichés that you begin to wonder whether it's intentional, another throwback to 'Scream'. Unfortunately, in homaging those cheap 80's slashers it forgot the key ingredient - gratuitous gore and scares - which are thin on the ground. For all of its mildly amusing characters and dumb red herrings, this is still obvious and dull.
Rating: 
Summary: The Greatest Film Of 1998
Review: Truly one of the greatest films of all time,with Alicia Witt,
Rebecca Gayheart,Jared Leto,Tara Reid & Joshua Jackson making a
great cast look fantastic.The only problem?Gayheart and Witt look like they've been friends ever since Urban Legend.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: What a wonderful movie. I loved it when I had bought it! Its so scary and it got me hanging off my couch. The actors in the movie are very good, except for the actor in the very first scene.(Very fake actress). Tara Reid done a excellent job in the movie, expecially the last scene she was in. There were some mistakes that I noticed in the movie but I can't really say because then they will be spoilers to people that haven't seen the movie. Just want to say what a GREAT movie this is.
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Summary: Critics bash Urban Legend solely on its genre - I liked it!
Review: I'll say one thing before I start this review - the critics for magazines, websites and whatever else are pretty unfair on this movie. They really don't give many acceptable reasons as to why they dislike the movie. I think people like Roger Ebert and stuff look at the film and say - "Ohh look! It's another teen slasher! Let's give it ¼ soley on the basis of its genre!" Well, I have to disagree and rate Urban Legend on a fair scale and be truthful to my own opinion of the film - I liked it. The whole premise was very original, and although some scenes mildly copied from Scream, the whole idea was new and scary and had a good thing going for it. The script carried itself well and the suspense could've been built better but I felt tense at times in the movie. The performances weren't exactly brilliant, Alicia Witt and Jared Leto were good, and I liked the darkness of the girl who played Witt's sister. I also enjoyed who the killer turned out to be, that was a pretty clever turn! I didn't really like the motive but the actor played the part of the psycho excellently and I enjoyed the way the mystery was solved. The atmosphere of the movie was pretty plausible and I'll repeat I really, really loved the premise of the film. It was a very good, original turn in teen slasher filmmaking. Overall, I thought Urban Legend was an underrated film, and one that I find to be very enjoyable and even at times quite a valuable horror flick. Don't expect too much and I'm sure you'll like it! Rating: 4/5. Really enjoyed the making-of featurette and the commentary by the director. The trailer was also pretty interesting, but I felt there was something missing from this DVD.
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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 minutes The 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.
Rating:
Summary: Freaky and Good
Review: This movie is about a group of guys and girls in college, and they are all getting murdered based on Urban Legends. Now, I have seen probably every new scary movie out and this is one of the only ones that actually freaked me out! It has a great twist at the end, and I love the idea of the Urban Legends. This movie is alot better than all of those regular slasher movies where someone comes and rips their guts out or slices off their head; it gets boring after a while, believe me. Well, if you were thinking about seeing this movie I think you would enjoy it more than alot of the other ones!
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