Urban Legends (1998)

URBAN LEGEND: 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. When New England college student Natalie (Alicia Witt, TV's Cybil) finds herself in the middle of a series of sadistic murders modeled after urban legends, she decides she's going to get to the bottom of Pendleton College's 30-year-old urban legend about a massacre of students at the hand of an abnormal psych professor (Robert Englund, Freddy Kreuger from the Nightmare On Elm Street series). In the process, she discovers that she has been the focus of these murders all along...and that the ultimate urban legend may end up being everything that leads up to her own horrific murder.

Urban Legends: Final Cut: The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in the suspenseful follow-up to the smash hit Urban Legend. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost--even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. Urban Legends: Final Cut is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking climax. Starring Jennifer Morrison (Stir Of Echoes), Matthew Davis (Tigerland), Joseph Lawrence (TV's Blossom), Anthony Anderson (Me Myself & Irene), Hart Bochner(Die Hard) and Loretta Devine (from the original Urban Legend).

URBAN LEGENDS: BLOODY MARYFrom director Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary, The In Crowd), the terrifying Urban Legend trilogy comes full circle with Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, delivering enough hair-raising scares to rival The Grudge and The Ring. On a prom-night dare, a trio of high-school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences. That same night, the girls are abducted by a gang of high-school jocks. Once rescued, their tormentors receive their just desserts, dying one by one in a chain reaction of gruesome murders, each with a bizarre Urban Legend twist. Is it all just a high-school prank taken to grisly extremes - or has "Bloody Mary" returned from the grave to wreak her own vengeance?
 
"[Legend] Scary and fun..."  Anita Gates, The New York Times
"[Legend] A hip-talking horror film..."  Jane Horowitz, Washington Post
"[FInal] ...intense."  Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
"[Legend] Loads of thrills and chills!"  Ron Brewington, American Urban Radio
 


Editor's Note

URBAN LEGEND: On an ordinary college campus, students are being killed off one by one in ways resembling various urban legends, 25 years after a covered-up dorm massacre. One lone student must seek out the truth--while keeping herself from becoming just another legendary victim at the same time. The fine cast includes Tara Reid, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, and horror legend Robert Englund as the professor teaching his students about urban legends.

URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT:At the prestigious Orson Welles Film School at Alpine University, students are preparing their submissions for the Hitchcock Award, an honor that virtually guarantees the winner a Hollywood career. Amy Mayfield (Jennifer Morrison), daughter of a famous documentary director, decides to make a different kind of film: a thriller in which college students are killed in ways resembling various urban legends. Despite the backstabbing and jealousy of her fellow students, Amy begins to plan and cast her movie, with help from a pair of special effects geeks and a suave European cinematographer. As filming progresses, however, a series of unusual deaths occurs that the police dismiss as accidents. Is the killer a psychotic madman or a student hoping to eliminate the competition? Amy must struggle to learn the truth or else risk becoming another "accident" herself. This sequel to the 1998 horror hit URBAN LEGEND features a different cast (except for the return of security guard Reese), and was directed by John Ottman, the composer and editor of such films as THE USUAL SUSPECTS.

URBAN LEGENDS: BLOODY MARY:X2 writers Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris apply their talents to the teen slasher genre, delivering a horrific update to the well-known legend of Bloody Mary. It's 1969 and Mary Banner is a bookish, unpopular girl who has unexpectedly been invited to the dance by a star athlete. His intentions are less than admirable, however, and after trying to escape from him Mary suffers a long and painful death. Years later in 2005, Sam (Kate Mara, TV's JACK & BOBBIE) and her girlfriends are having a slumber party on prom night, and while discussing urban legends and local lore, they invoke Mary's name and bring her back from the dead. This sets off a string of local murders, each executed according to the dictates of a different urban legend. Sam and her brother David (Robert Vito, SPY KIDS 3: GAME OVER) take it upon themselves to investigate, researching the original crime in an attempt to thwart the revenge the wronged spirit is determined to see through.