Urban Legend is a 1998 horror film starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart and Robert Englund. The film is based on the premise that a killer is using the methods of death described in certain urban legends as a means to kill his victims.
The film was followed by Urban Legends: Final Cut, which was released to theatres in 2000, and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, which went direct-to-video in 2005.
The film opens at a gas station, where a ...
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Urban Legend is a 1998 horror film starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart and Robert Englund. The film is based on the premise that a killer is using the methods of death described in certain urban legends as a means to kill his victims.
The film was followed by Urban Legends: Final Cut, which was released to theatres in 2000, and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, which went direct-to-video in 2005.
The film opens at a gas station, where a young woman, Michelle Mancini, fights off a supposed attack by the stuttering gas attendant. However, the attendant actually tried to warn her, and as Michelle drives off, a shape appears in the back seat and decapitates her with an axe.
On campus, student Parker relates how one of the campus halls, Stanley Hall, had been the site of a massacre in 1973. The story is discredited by school journalist Paul, but it sticks in the minds of Natalie and Brenda. The two girls attend a lecture by Professor Wexler who introduces them to the concept of...
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