URBAN LEGEND (1998) is, to my mind, one of the most “obviously we’re making this because of the success of SCREAM” horror movies that exists. It’s another young-people-whodunit-slasher, with a similarly constituted cast of pretty young movie and TV stars, but instead of killings inspired by horror movie tropes, these ones are based on popular urban myths. At the time I think I took it as dumb but pretty enjoyable, which is also how I feel about it now, and about many non-classic slasher movies. Like most of them it benefits from age – it’s a time capsule now rather than the latest the genre has to offer, so we have different expectations for it. (read the rest of this shit…)
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Urban Legend
Monday, December 11th, 2023Tags: Alicia Witt, Brad Dourif, Christopher Young, Danielle Harris, Jamie Blanks, Jared Leto, John Neville, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Rosenbaum, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Silvio Horta, slashers, Tara Reid, whodunit slashers
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