"Promising Premise; Perverse Practices"
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What You Need To Know:
An urban legend is an incredible story, telling an unusual event, usually told as true and set in the recent past. In the new horror movie, URBAN LEGEND, two students, played by Alicia Witt of TV’s CYBIL and Jared Leto of TV’s MY SO-CALLED LIFE, try to stop a killer recreating these odd events on a fictional Northeastern campus. As body counts mount, the killer is revealed, motives are explained, and a final battle involving the two students and a security cop ensues.
While the premise of this movie is certainly original and fresh, the explanation of the urban legends is too much of a show stopper. It is too much exposition for a horror movie. Throughout this movie, the dialogue is cheesy, sexual or just plain stupid. On top of its cruel humor and death scenes, URBAN LEGEND also includes some rude sex scenes. Hence, URBAN LEGEND, despite its clever premise, evinces a mean spirit, a cynical attitude and an enjoyment of perversity. Like DISTURBING BEHAVIOR, it features today’s television teenage stars acting even more immoral than they do on television, and suffering the consequences by a psychotic moral arbiter whose only solution is murder
Content:
(PaPaPa, FR, LLL, VVV, SS, N, A, D, M) Pagan worldview with urban legends & superstitions; 25 obscenities & 8 profanities; excessive violence including man run over by car, man impaled, man’s ankles cut, man hung by the neck, woman killed by ax, man forces man to drink Draino, girl smashes window, girl hits guy, woman falls, woman tied up, gunfire, man kills dog in microwave implied, & implied car crash; briefly depicted fornication, sexual humor, implied oral sex, & sexual paintings in book; women in bikini; alcohol use; smoking; and, rebellious attitudes, lying, urination implied, & threats to steal kidney.
More Detail:
An urban legend is an incredible story, telling an unusual event, usually told as true and set in the recent past. In the new horror movie, URBAN LEGEND, two students, played by Alicia Witt of TV’s CYBIL and Jared Leto of TV’s MY SO-CALLED LIFE, try to stop a killer recreating these odd events on a fictional Northeastern campus. As body counts mount, the killer is revealed, motives are explained, and a final battle involving the two students and a security cop ensues.
While the premise of this movie is certainly original and fresh, the explanation of the urban legends is too much of a show stopper. It is too much exposition for a horror movie. Throughout this movie, the dialogue is cheesy, sexual or just plain stupid. On top of its cruel humor and death scenes, URBAN LEGEND also includes some rude sex scenes. Hence, URBAN LEGEND, despite its clever premise, evinces a mean spirit, a cynical attitude and an enjoyment of perversity. Like DISTURBING BEHAVIOR, it features today’s television teenage stars acting even more immoral than they do on television, and suffering the consequences by a psychotic moral arbiter whose only solution is murder.
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