Urban Legend

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Urban Legend

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Urban Legend

Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid

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 Dour...( read more  read more... )if), 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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  • SirPant
    September 24, 2009
    SirPant
    A poor slasher film with a wasted idea. I've always thought Joshua Jackson could have done better for himself.
  • irisheyes686
    February 28, 2009
    irisheyes686
    I've seen this so many times. The end was so surprising...usually it's obvious right from the start.
  • powerofmylove
    May 2, 2008
    powerofmylove
    This could have been better but was just an alright movie to me .
  • limoradalloway
    March 28, 2008
    limoradalloway
    Back before Jared Leto discovered eye liner.
  • darmstrong3
    February 9, 2008
    darmstrong3
    not bad but it was a little stupid. Stupid isn't really the word, lets just say it was targeting at teens and young adults only.
  • perromarylou
    December 28, 2009
    perromarylou
    Un casting de jeunes stars hollywoodiennes et un fond de légendes urbaines très classique. Ma fascination des légendes urbaines a commencé après ce film.
  • michellefortuin
    December 25, 2009
    michellefortuin
    Liked it! First of all, I loveeee twists in the end, and this was definitely a good one. The acting was not bad.. not great either but oh well!
    Jared Leto is a beautiful man! Those eyes.. OMG!

    The beginning and ending were both good :)
  • filmfanatic1982
    December 20, 2009
    filmfanatic1982
    Ok, but not a classic.
  • ZakaryasX
    December 20, 2009
    ZakaryasX
    A REALLY POOR EFFORT
  • Topsie11
    November 26, 2009
    Topsie11
    Urban Legend is a good movie. good good good but .unfortunately, some of the acting is a crap..the good thing was it really scares me.. good twist *clap clap* must say bravo....urban legends is clever..
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