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Writer (WGA):
Silvio Horta (written by)
Release Date:
25 September 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
It Happened To Someone Who Knows Someone You Know... You're Next. more
Plot:
A college coed suspects that murders around her campus are connected to Urban Legends. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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A silly-but-fun, post-Scream slasher.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jared Leto | ... | Paul Gardener |
 | Alicia Witt | ... | Natalie Simon |
 | Rebecca Gayheart | ... | Brenda Bates |
 | Michael Rosenbaum | ... | Parker Riley |
 | Loretta Devine | ... | Reese Wilson |
 | Joshua Jackson | ... | Damon Brooks |
 | Tara Reid | ... | Sasha Thomas |
 | John Neville | ... | Dean Adams |
 | Julian Richings | ... | Weird Janitor |
 | Robert Englund | ... | Professor William Wexler |
 | Danielle Harris | ... | Tosh Guaneri |
 | Natasha Gregson Wagner | ... | Michelle Mancini |
| Gord Martineau | ... | David McAree |
| Kay Hawtrey | ... | Library Attendant |
 | Angela Vint | ... | Bitchy Girl |
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Rated R for horror violence/gore, language and sexual content.
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99 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Singapore:M18 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) |
Iceland:16 |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Belgium:KNT |
Brazil:14 |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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The car driven in the beginning was originally supposed to be a Land Rover. It was changed to the Ford Expedition (the largest 4x4 available at the time) because the filmmakers discovered they couldn't swing an axe inside a Land Rover.
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Continuity: At the Frat party, Paul and Natalie are sitting talking about what's going on. Paul puts his hand on Natalie's face and Natalie then puts her hand on Paul's wrist near his thumb. As the shot changes from Paul to Natalie, her hand appears and disappears with each shot.
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Spoofed in Scary Movie (2000)
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Soundtrack:
Trying Not to Think About It
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One of the many slick teen slashers featuring an impossibly photogenic cast to follow in the wake of Scream, Urban Legend sees a crazed killer at a college staging an elaborate series of murders based on popular contemporary folklore.
This ridiculously impractical modus operandi relies heavily on sheer coincidence for success, and inevitably, the resultant film is highly preposterous. Urban Legend's makers are, without a doubt, only too well aware of this fact, but soldier on regardless, relying on the probability that their target audience (indiscriminate teens) will be having too much fun to care (or even notice).
And for the most part, the gamble seems to pay off—the eye candy cast (Jared Leto, Joshua Jackson and Michael Rosembaum for the girls; Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Danielle Harris and Tara Reid for the guys), enjoyable mechanical scares, frivolous in-jokes, and well handled action help detract from the general silliness, and director Jamie Blanks keeps things whipping along at a brisk enough pace to ensure that there's little opportunity to dissect the material and pose awkward questions (at least until the film has finished).
It had been up to me, however, I'd have ramped up the violence (the film is surprisingly unbloody) and thrown in some gratuitous nudity in order to play it safe, for things do get EXTREMELY daft towards the end, and the slasher fans I know are always more forgiving if there's loads of blood 'n' guts and a few boobies on display (surely Reid could have been talked into getting them out for the lads).