Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.

Director:

John Ottman

Writers:

Silvio Horta (characters), Paul Harris Boardman

Stars:

Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jennifer Morrison	...	Amy Mayfield
Matthew Davis	...	Travis Stark / Trevor Stark
Hart Bochner	...	Professor Solomon
Loretta Devine	...	Reese
Joey Lawrence	...	Graham Manning (as Joseph Lawrence)
Anson Mount	...	Toby
Eva Mendes	...	Vanessa Valdeon
Jessica Cauffiel	...	Sandra
Anthony Anderson	...	Stan
Michael Bacall	...	Dirk
Marco Hofschneider	...	Simon
Derek Aasland	...	P.A. Kevin
Jacinda Barrett	...	Lisa
Peter Millard	...	Dr. Fain
Chas Lawther	...	Dean Patterson

Storyline

Urban Legends: The Final Cut follows Amy Mayfield (Morrison), a student at Alpine University who struggles to complete her thesis film on urban legends - only to have her crew members fall prey to fatal 'accidents.' Suspicious, Amy investigates and discovers a much more sinister hand at work. Now she must unmask the killer before she, too, becomes an urban legend.

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Plot Keywords:

urban legend | film director | serial killer | film student | sequel | 

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Taglines:

Legends never die

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/gore, language and some sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

Phoenix Pictures / John Ottman

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 September 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Leyendas urbanas: Corte final

Filming Locations:

Ontario Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$14,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$8,505,513, 24 September 2000

Gross USA:

$21,468,807

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$38,574,362

Company Credits

Production Co:

Phoenix Pictures, Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels, Original Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jessica Cauffiel and Matthew Davis appeared in Legally Blonde (2001).

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Goofs

The kidney they use is a bovine kidney. A human kidney does not have external lobes like those you can see on the one shown in the movie.

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Quotes

Amy Mayfield: Reese, I must have dropped the tape. Did you see it?
Reese: I looked, but I didn't see no tape, just yo' crazy white ass down in the sewer!

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Crazy Credits

As the end credits roll, Professor Solomon is being pushed in a wheelchair by a nurse who happens to be the killer from the first movie!

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Alternate Versions

The DVD edition of the movie has 7 deleted scenes:

• One shows some characters (Amy, Vanessa, Sandra, Travis, Graham, Toby and Stan) discussing after being in the convention of the film school.
• Other shows Amy writing the script of the movie (there's 2 parts)
• Other shows Sandra saying "Goodbye" to Amy, minutes after finishing the first day of the shooting of Amy's film.
• An "alternate"-expanded scene of Amy and Trevor talking about the killer's attack in the Tunnel Of Terror.
• An alternate ending showing Amy and Trevor holding after wrapping the filming of Amy's movie.

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Connections

References Final Destination (2000)

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Soundtracks

Just Can't Wait
Written by Scott Nickoley & Jamie Dunlap
Performed by Melody Patron
Courtesy of Marc Ferrari/MasterSource

User Reviews

Uninspired sequel

URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Sound formats: Dolby Digital / DTS / SDDS

Several film students at an isolated university campus are targeted by a serial killer who patterns his/her crimes after various urban legends.

John Ottman's unnecessary sequel is a disastrous jumble of humor and horror which isn't nearly as funny or frightening as the filmmakers might have hoped, and the visual references to various classic movies (most notably the VERTIGO-inspired climax) seem entirely superfluous. Most of the murders are routine, except for a grisly decapitation inspired by a similar sequence in Dario Argento's INFERNO (1980), but the rest of the movie adheres strictly to formula, as a masked killer strives to frame weak-willed heroine Jennifer Morrison for a series of brutal crimes. Only two of the characters from the original URBAN LEGEND (1998) have been retained: Loretta Devine as the campus security guard whose aspirations toward COFFY-style bravery are finally realized during a climactic confrontation with the killer, when he/she makes the mistake of trying to punch her out (Devine retaliates with the best line of dialogue in the entire movie!), and Rebecca Gayheart in an unbilled cameo which should raise a smile amongst devotees of the original film.

The supporting cast is handsome but interchangeable, including Matthew Davis (TIGERLAND) as Morrison's potential love interest, Jessica Cauffiel (VALENTINE) as a dizzy would-be actress whose final sequence resembles one of the more famous set-pieces from PEEPING TOM (1959), Eva Mendes (ONCE UPON A TIME IN Mexico) as a statuesque lesbian beauty whose fondness for Morrison lands her in a whole heap of trouble, and Hart Bochner (APARTMENT ZERO, SUPERGIRL) as an unlikely college professor. Production values are polished, but the movie amounts to little more than an uninspired rehash, and represents an inauspicious debut for former composer/editor Ottman (THE USUAL SUSPECTS). Also starring Joseph Lawrence, Anson Mount and Marco Hofschneider.