Urban Legend

It happened to someone who knows someone you know. You're next.

URBAN LEGEND (18)

D: Jamie Blanks

Tristar/Phoenix/Original Film (Neal H. Moritz, Gina Matthews & Michael McDonnell)

US 1998

100 mins

Horror

W: Silvio Horta

DP: James Chressanthis

Ed: Jay Cassidy

Mus: Christopher Young

Jared Leto (Paul Gardner), Alicia Witt (Natalie Simon), Rebecca Gayheart (Brenda Bates), Joshua Jackson (Damon Brooks), Tara Reid (Sasha Thomas), Robert Englund (Prof. Wexler), John Neville (Dean Adams)

Urban Legend: a funny of frightening story or trinket of information passed from person-to-person as though true, usually purporting to involve someone vaguely known to the story-teller.

The Scream formula is virtually recycled for this slasher horror, which dissects urban legends rather than horror classics for its plot device.

It features some inventive death scenes, all with a wink and a nod to urban myths, but there's also some moments which are absolutely ridiculous along with some hugely unconvincing performances, some of which will most than likely make you roll your eyes back into your head and yawn. A sequel followed (Urban Legends: Final Cut).

4/10