Urban Legend: Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum, Loretta Devine, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid, John Neville, Julian Richings, Robert Englund, Danielle Harris, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Chressanthis, Jamie Blanks, Brad Luff, Brian Leslie Parker, Gina Matthews, Michael McDonnell, Neal H. Moritz, Silvio Horta: Amazon.ca: Video

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An attractive young woman is driving her car on a dark country road and singing along to the radio. She's running out of gas and so she pulls into a gas station (run by a jittery, stuttering Brad Dourif), but then flees what seems to be an attack, only to find the real threat in her backseat: a hooded killer with an ax who takes her head off with a well-aimed swing. You've heard the story before? Not surprising, given that it's one of the more famous urban legends borrowed for Urban Legend, a post-Scream exercise in self-referential horror. The students at an ivy-covered New England college are turning up dead, the victims of a serial killer who murders in the fashion of the "apocryphal" modern myths. It's all for the benefit of good girl with a dark secret Alicia Witt, the sole witness to most of the killings. Doe-eyed Rebecca Gayheart, as her gullible best friend, and Jared Leto, the ambitious campus journalist who tracks down the secret that hangs over the school, lead a cast of pretty young women, hunky guys, and campus characters, notably the suspicious professor Robert Englund, a genre legend in his own right as the star of seven Nightmare on Elm Street films. Take away the cheeky remarks and self-awareness and it's a throwback to the 1970s' rash of teen slasher movies, where sexually active teens are sliced, diced, and otherwise slaughtered in elaborate and ingenious ways. The increasingly preposterous film is no Scream, but the modestly stylish production has its moments. --Sean Axmaker

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5.0 out of 5 stars Urban Legend on DVD, Oct 14 2011

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This review is from: Urban Legend (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)

Excellent quality, shipped in half the time it said it would and was packaged safe and secure. Would definitely buy from this seller again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best in the horror genre, July 24 2007

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this movie,is in my mind,one of the better of the horror genre.it has a clever premise.the characters are well written and strong.there are a lot of potential suspects that could be the killer,and they all have compelling motives.the movie may not be wholly original,but it think its basic premise is.i also found it unpredictable.i had no idea for sure who the killer might be.and i think the movie is tightly written enough that it doesn't give you any clear idea who the killer is.i'm certain there are inconsistencies and tiny plot holes,and i mean tiny.not even holes really.more like little divetts.unless you're looking for things wrong with the movie,i don't think you'll find them.if a movie has blatant holes and absurd leaps of logic,that's one thing.i don't think this movie does.if you just let it engage you,it will.for me,"Urban Legend" is a 5/5

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good, original movie, Mar 29 2006

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I only watched this movie because Jared Leto was in it, I was surprised. I mean, I figured he was the main character, and he was hardly in it! The acting is really good though! Tara Reid sucks, though. I was afraid she would ruin this movie for me, ('cause her apalling acting skills ruined Van Wilder for me, and American Pie too) but, she didn't. I think since she gets hacked up with an axe it made the movie good. The twist at the end is great! Half way through the movie you think you know who the killer is, but then you think it's someone else, then you find out who it is, and it's one of the people you would least except! All in all, this movie is a good slasher movie, not too scary, but a good, original story and good actors (except Tara Reid)

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4.0 out of 5 stars legends that kick ass
this was cool. a killer hackin off people by urban legends..........how original. great slasher movie one of the better ones. and tara reid in it!!!!!

Published on July 8 2004 by ericswrongturn

1.0 out of 5 stars eh
I saw this movie on TV the other day and, honestly, the movie has potential to be a kinda good scary movie but the low mentality of these students that we were supposed to believe... Read more

Published on Jun 12 2004