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Title: Urban Legend (1998)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jared Leto | ... | Paul Gardener | |
| Alicia Witt | ... | Natalie Simon | |
| Rebecca Gayheart | ... | Brenda Bates | |
| Michael Rosenbaum | ... | Parker Riley | |
| Loretta Devine | ... | Reese Wilson | |
| Joshua Jackson | ... | Damon Brooks | |
| Tara Reid | ... | Sasha Thomas | |
| John Neville | ... | Dean Adams | |
| Julian Richings | ... | Weird Janitor | |
| Robert Englund | ... | Professor William Wexler | |
| Danielle Harris | ... | Tosh Guaneri | |
| Natasha Gregson Wagner | ... | Michelle Mancini | |
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Gord Martineau | ... | David McAree |
| Kay Hawtrey | ... | Library Attendant | |
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Angela Vint | ... | Bitchy Girl |
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, a beautiful, academically-gifted student at the fictional Pendleton University. Natalie and her friends are all involved in the Folklore class being taught by Professor Wexler. 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 and security guard, of course, believes her until it's too late. Now she finds that she and her friends are part of the killer's ultimate urban legend. Written by K. Wilson [edited for spoilers]
Unfortunately, Urban Legend suffers from a rather disjointed plot, and the fact that as a pseudo-mystery, they've eliminated most of the suspects by the end of the movie, so you pretty much know who is responsible. The murderer displays all the qualities of a more supernatural killer like Jason or Michael Myers, such as superhuman strength and the ability to be everywhere the plot requires him to be (like being across campus within minutes of each murder). Signposting some of the urban legends would have been helpful (there's a urban legend about a DJ being killed on the air and people thinking it was a hoax???). The cast is likable enough, but only Loretta Devine really stands out. The movie could as easily have been called "Horror Movie Cliche" as "Urban Legend" (or was that subtitle spoken for by Scream?). There are a few cute in-jokes (yes, one of the actresses was in a Noxema commercial). It's generally an entertaining way to waste a couple of hours if you're a horror-slasher fan.