Post by Pooky on Apr 21, 2008 15:52:13 GMT -5
I'll find a poster later....I don't feel like mucking around with uploading right now.
After a bravura opening sequence featuring Natasha Gregson Wagner getting slaughtered by the killer with an axe hiding in the backseat of her car, Urban Legend tells the story of a group of pretty college students at a remote New England university. The focus of the story is Natalie (Alicia Witt), a beautiful, academically-gifted student at the fictional Pendleton University. Natalie and her friends (who include Jared Leto as a brash journalist, Rebecca Gayheart as her best friend, Michael Rosenbaum as the party-hardy boy, Joshua Jackson as a practical joker and Tara Reid as the sexy campus DJ) are all involved in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler (Robert Englund). Wexler regales his class with urban legends, which include Pendleton's own urban legend about a Psych professor who murdered six students at Stanley Hall 25 years ago. Natalie is the first one to suspect there's a killer on campus, especially after she has ties to all of the victims. No one, including her friends, Wexler, Dean Adams (John Neville) and security guard (Loretta Devine), of course, believes her until it's too late..and Natalie believes it's all tied to a dark and horrible secret from her past. Now she finds that she and her friends are part of the killer's ultimate urban legend--the story of their own horrific deaths...
Taken from IMDB, and a couple bits taken out for spoilers. If you've seen it, you know what happens. XP
It seemed like a dud to me at first, but when I got to watching it, I got hooked. The urban legends aren't just some made-up things for the movie like I thought they'd be..they were actually real urban legends. (oxy-moron, much?) You all know 'em. Guy in the back of the car, and a gas-station owner tries to warn the girl, but the girl thinks it's him trying to kill her. Then there's the "lover's lane" bit. Lot's o' variations of that one. Overall, it's really a great movie..way better than I would have ever expected it to be.
After a bravura opening sequence featuring Natasha Gregson Wagner getting slaughtered by the killer with an axe hiding in the backseat of her car, Urban Legend tells the story of a group of pretty college students at a remote New England university. The focus of the story is Natalie (Alicia Witt), a beautiful, academically-gifted student at the fictional Pendleton University. Natalie and her friends (who include Jared Leto as a brash journalist, Rebecca Gayheart as her best friend, Michael Rosenbaum as the party-hardy boy, Joshua Jackson as a practical joker and Tara Reid as the sexy campus DJ) are all involved in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler (Robert Englund). Wexler regales his class with urban legends, which include Pendleton's own urban legend about a Psych professor who murdered six students at Stanley Hall 25 years ago. Natalie is the first one to suspect there's a killer on campus, especially after she has ties to all of the victims. No one, including her friends, Wexler, Dean Adams (John Neville) and security guard (Loretta Devine), of course, believes her until it's too late..and Natalie believes it's all tied to a dark and horrible secret from her past. Now she finds that she and her friends are part of the killer's ultimate urban legend--the story of their own horrific deaths...
Taken from IMDB, and a couple bits taken out for spoilers. If you've seen it, you know what happens. XP
It seemed like a dud to me at first, but when I got to watching it, I got hooked. The urban legends aren't just some made-up things for the movie like I thought they'd be..they were actually real urban legends. (oxy-moron, much?) You all know 'em. Guy in the back of the car, and a gas-station owner tries to warn the girl, but the girl thinks it's him trying to kill her. Then there's the "lover's lane" bit. Lot's o' variations of that one. Overall, it's really a great movie..way better than I would have ever expected it to be.