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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 28606
Released: February 23, 1999 |
| Our Price: $3.83 |
| Used Price: $1.49 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A MYSTERIOUS CAMPUS KILLER IS USING WELL-KNOWN URBAN LEGENDS AS A PATTERN FOR MURDER. WITH FILMMAKERS' COMMENTARY AND FEATURETTE.
Description of Urban Legend:
An attractive young woman is driving her car on a dark country road and singing along to the radio. She's running out of gas and so she pulls into a gas station (run by a jittery, stuttering Brad Dourif), but then flees what seems to be an attack, only to find the real threat in her backseat: a hooded killer with an ax who takes her head off with a well-aimed swing. You've heard the story before? Not surprising, given that it's one of the more famous urban legends borrowed for Urban Legend, a post-Scream exercise in self-referential horror. The students at an ivy-covered New England college are turning up dead, the victims of a serial killer who murders in the fashion of the "apocryphal" modern myths. It's all for the benefit of good girl with a dark secret Alicia Witt, the sole witness to most of the killings. Doe-eyed Rebecca Gayheart, as her gullible best friend, and Jared Leto, the ambitious campus journalist who tracks down the secret that hangs over the school, lead a cast of pretty young women, hunky guys, and campus characters, notably the suspicious professor Robert Englund, a genre legend in his own right as the star of seven Nightmare on Elm Street films. Take away the cheeky remarks and self-awareness and it's a throwback to the 1970s' rash of teen slasher movies, where sexually active teens are sliced, diced, and otherwise slaughtered in elaborate and ingenious ways. The increasingly preposterous film is no Scream, but the modestly stylish production has its moments. --Sean Axmaker
Urban Legend Reviews:
Meh. 
2009-09-06 - Say what you will about modern horror and the extremities it goes to in making an audience cringe - at least it's doing SOMETHING right. The watered down horror era of the late 90s/early 00s is over. Whew.
All these movies were good for (Valentine, IKWYDLS, etc.) were jump scares and pretty people getting sliced and diced, even if you didn't really see much of it. It was horror for the NSync and Britney crowd. "OMG, LYKE, DON'T GO IN THERE AND STUFF!"
The more time passes, the more I realize I can't even enjoy these films for cheap nostalgia (class of '99 boeeeeey!). My generation got the shaft with the horror genre. I mostly watched stuff from the 70s and 80s back then anyway. Blockbuster Video was just a few blocks away.
Two stars for the stylish college setting. Beautiful building.
I love this movie!! 
2008-12-18 - This movie is great for an old movie. I'm a big fan of Michael Rosenbaum. This movie is funny and thrilling. I would deffinately reccomend it.
Slasher gone wild
2008-11-29 - Finally this movie gets the respect it deserves.I run a 7.1 home theatre system and the sound from the movie is among the best. Picture quality is superb and all around a fun movie to watch.
so much fun!
2008-10-28 - right up there with campfire tales, Urban Legends are just as eerie! This movie is so much fun and so insane, gives you a real education on the crazy stunts people believe in. This movie has an amazing cast of people, you wont believe who youll see in here! Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, and even Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund! Watch this fun story!
Urban Legend - Blu-ray Info 
2008-09-08 - Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 1:39:38
Movie size: 27,52 GB
Disc size: 29,78 GB
Average video bit rate: 23.94 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1490 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1490kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby TrueHD Audio French 1705 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1705kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby TrueHD Audio Portuguese 1462 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1462kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Thai 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Subtitles: English / English SDH / Arabic / Chinese / Dutch / French / Indonesian / Korean / Portuguese / Thai / Spanish
Number of chapters: 16
#Audio Commentary
#Making Of (SD, 10 min)
#Theatrical Trailer (HD) - 21 & Starship Troopers: Marauder
#BD-Live
