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Release Date
• USA: Sep 25, 1998
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 23, 1999
• R2: 12 Apr 2004
Budget $14,000,000
Official Website:
Urban Legend Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for horror violence/gore, language and sexual content.
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA, France
Production Companies
Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels, Original Film, Phoenix Pictures
Studio Neal H. Moritz, Phoenix Pictures
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Urban Legend (1998)
• Mixed Culture
• Urban Legends
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Slasher, Serial Killer, Teenage, School / Campus, Psychos, Murder, Gore, On The Road, Suspense
Tagline: It Happened To Someone Who Knows Someone You Know... You're Next.
Plot: Everybody's heard them ... yet they have no traceable source. There's no proof they really happened ... yet they can't necessarily be proven false. They're urban legends, contemporary tall tales and bits of macabre mythology that emerge from the underground and take on colorful lives of their own. Like a virus they spread quickly, develop a stubborn staying power as they are passed by whisper from person to person, then come to rest firmly wedged in our collective consciousness. Did Mikey from the Life cereal commercials really die of a lethal combination of Pop Rocks and Pepsi? Are there really mutant alligators living in the sewers of New York City? And everyone knows about the babysitter who received crank calls threatening the children under her care who then traced the calls to the upstairs bedroom. They range from the silly to the sickening - now, in TriStar Pictures' Urban Legend, a group of students is about to find out that urban legends can be fatal. Behind the gothic stone facade and pretentious air of history and tradition at New England's Pendleton College-just named the safest university in the country-classic urban legends are being realized with fatal results. But who is doing it? And why? As Pendleton's American Folklore instructor, Professor Wexler (Nightmare
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Competently directed with some okay deaths this big-studio slasher flick has way too many lapses in logic and heavy-handed attempts at humour to work and really won't appeal to anyone but the teenage audience it was intended for since anyone over 18 willeasily rip the poorly constructed script to bits.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
Except for the absolutely incredible prologue, there's no enjoyment to be taken from this film; it reeks of smugness and eye-winking self-knowledge.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
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| Written by |
Silvio Horta
Urban Legends: Final Cut, Jake 2.0: The Tech, The Chronicle |
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| Cast |
Jared Leto
Requiem for a Dream, American Psycho, Panic Room |
 | Alicia Witt
Two Weeks Notice, Four Rooms, Mr. Holland's Opus |
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 | Tara Reid
The Big Lebowski, American Pie, Cruel Intentions |
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What upset me about this movie was that it turned out to be just another little teen horror movie.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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