Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)

On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.

Director:

Mary Lambert

Writers:

Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris

Stars:

Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kate Mara	...	Samantha Owens
Robert Vito	...	David Owens
Tina Lifford	...	Grace Taylor
Ed Marinaro	...	Bill Owens
Michael Coe	...	Buck Jacoby
Lillith Fields	...	Young Mary Banner / 'Bloody Mary'
Nancy Everhard	...	Pam Owens
Audra Lea Keener	...	Heather Thompson
Don Shanks	...	Coach Jacoby
Jeff Olson	...	Sheriff McKenna
Nate Herd	...	Tom Higgins
Brandon Sacks	...	Roger Dalton
Hailey Evans	...	Martha - Samantha's Friend #1 (as Hailey Smith)
Olesya Rulin	...	Mindy - Samantha's Friend #2
Haley McCormick	...	Young Gina Lotnick

Storyline

On Homecoming night, Samantha, Gina, and Mindy are having a slumber party at Sam's house due to being black-listed by the sexy football players. Since the dance and game are out of the question, the trio stays up and entertains themselves with Urban Legends..all leading up to BLOODY MARY. With nothing better to do and a whole night to waste, Sam chants "Bloody Mary." Her friends laugh... "Bloody Mary." More laughter. On the third and final "Bloody Mary," the friends are kidnapped by three jocks and return soon thereafter, shaken but well. Sam begins having hallucinations and soon bodies turn up - is it all a high school prank taken to grisly extremes or is it Bloody Mary, who's youth was taken far too early?

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Plot Keywords:

bleed to death | bloody mary | prank | football player | newspaper | 

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Taglines:

Mary's Evil is Beyond Legend

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Genres:

Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence and gore, drug use and some language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 July 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary

Filming Locations:

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$3,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

NPP Productions Inc.,Screen Gems

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This time, murders are committed by an actual urban legend character, and the main characters must find way to stop her.

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Goofs

When Heather (Sam's friend) pops what she thinks is a zit, it explodes on the mirror. In the next shot the mess is not on the mirror anymore.

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Quotes

Samantha Owens: [the girls pile into bed after having a pillow fight and start jokingly chanting the incantation] Bloody Mary.
[the girls giggle and chuckle and she says it again]
Samantha Owens: Bloody Mary.
[the girls giggle again and she says it the last time]
Samantha Owens: Bloody Mary.
Martha - Samantha's Friend #1: [a vision of Bloody Mary appears outside the house and they hear tapping on the window; the girls scream] Who is it?
Samantha Owens: [sees David enter] David!
Martha - Samantha's Friend #1: [throws a pillow at him] Asshole!
[David catches it flips the light on and sits on the couch]
Samantha Owens: So, David; you're back ...
[...]

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Connections

Referenced in The PoseidnGodofWater20 Show: Five Years in the Making (2016)

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Soundtracks

Dirty Water
Written by Ed Cobb
Performed by The Standells
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Not Necessarily Bad - Not Great Either.

Mary Lambert, who brought us "Pet Sematary" and "Pet Sematary II" brings us this unrelated sequel into the "Urban Legend" series. The movie starts out on prom night, years ago. A prank-gone-wrong takes place in the attic of a high school involving a girl named Mary. The guys responsible for the prank assume her dead, and lock her body in a trunk. Cut to present day. A group of teenage girls are spending the night, having a slumber party, telling urban legends to pass the time, all leading up to the infamous "Bloody Mary" legend. On their third and final bloody Mary chant, the girls end up getting kidnapped by some jocks who are performing a revenge prank mainly on a girl named Samantha. They all return safely, a little shaken and confused after the bizarre event. But our main character, Samantha, begins having visions after the prank, mainly of Bloody Mary - and people start to die off. Is it all a joke, or is Bloody Mary back to take revenge? It's up to Samantha to uncover Mary's origins and stop the vengeful spirit.

When I heard about this sequel, I was thinking "Okay, okay - this might be decent". And for the most part, it was. I saw the DVD at a local retail store and decided to buy it because I was curious. This film has nothing to do with the other two films at all, this one is much more supernatural rather than a slasher mystery. The acting was decent, not perfect but it passed. I enjoyed Lambert's "Pet Sematary" and I (unlike most people) enjoyed the sequel as well. The script for this film is predictable, the audience pretty much knows what actions the characters will take before they actually do it. The camera-work/cinematography was alright for a straight-to-video release, and the special effects were just okay, they unfortunately come off as a little bit corny in some of the sequences (especially the sequence that took place between Mary and the teenage boy at the motel). But hey, I wasn't expecting this movie to be perfect. The spider scene was actually pretty creepy looking, if not a little cheesy too. The deaths were quite creative and original, I'll give it that.

To sum things up, "Urban Legends: Bloody Mary" is a mediocre but semi-fun horror sequel. It's not great, it's really not bad. It's just somewhere right in the middle. I suppose it could've been worse. If you enjoy supernatural revenge movies (along the lines of "Pet Sematary"), or if you like Lambert's previous work, you may want to check this out. It's flawed and predictable, but overall entertaining. There's no need to see the other two films though, because this one has nothing to do with them. 5/10.