Urban Legend - Movie Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Chris Stuckmann reviews Urban Legend, starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, Tara Reid, John Neville, Robert Englund, Brad Dourif. Directed by Jamie Blanks.
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Fun fact: The director originally auditioned to direct I Know What You Did Last Summer but they had already chosen a director by the time they received his reel/audition tape. The producers liked it/him so much though that they kept him in mind and gave him this project to direct.
I remember being a teenager and renting this in blockbuster, on the condition from my parents that they watch it with me… That was one of the most awkward viewing experiences of my life. I remember getting to the part with the dog in the microwave and afterwords my mom‘s turning me and saying “so you like this kind of movie?”, and I really had to play up not liking this part, because I did like slashers, but I didn’t want my mom to think I liked watching dogs getting microwaved alive (which I don’t), I never would’ve been able to live that down lol
Now this are the kind of memories with your families which are worth mor than anything
Sounds like you do like it...
Yeah, I watched this movie for the first time just the other day, and that’s the worst part of the movie imo, it crushed me to see that, I was “NOOOOO” when I saw that part, it was so bad, I hate seeing stuff like that done to animals in horror movies!😢😭 I wish Hollywood would leave animals out of the horror of the horror movies, and come out unscathed!
@@Khaotic_Reign Where is the horror in that?
@@hexerei02021 I’m just saying that they should leave out animals and just concentrate on the humans in the movie!
My cousin Silvio wrote the script for this movie. He went on to co create Ugly Betty. Sadly he passed away in 2020. I always forget about this movie!
The biggest horror in this video is Chris admitting he watched Morbius lol
Why? It truly is one of the movies of all time
There's no actual proof that Morbius is a film that actually exists. We shall just call it an urban legend.
@@Joemama55122 One of “the” movies of all time? That doesn’t make sense. One of the what movies of all time?
You better not say best. Because Morbius was terrible.
I already blocked his comment out of my memory. How dare you make me relive it.
@@MaxNeugebauer. I think that was the joke!
Chris you are just pumping out these Halloween special videos, and frankly WE LOVE TO SEE IT ❤
He's not going to read this but ok
@@erenyeager007 I hope he does just to spite you
We?
Cringe
why won't he review halloween ends? lol
My favorite part of this movie is when Joshua Jackson character starts a car and the radio starts playing the Dawson's Creek theme song lol .
Urban Legend is such a fun movie, and one thing that I think a lot of people overlook is how beautiful the setting is. The weather, color scheme, and campus architecture really helps set the tone and atmosphere for this movie.
That is true. That the colour palette isn't completely washed out blue/grey is nice
That opening sequence is the best ive ever seen in a horror movie..in the rain also
This movie came out while I was in college and I was taking a class where we actually discussed urban legends. A few of us went to see the film more than once and what we found is that a lot of the background dialogue and the callers on the radio show's issues are also urban legends. I think we counted about 20 urban legends in the fim between the kills and the dialogue. Yeah, this is definitely the definition of a guilty pleasure film for me but I like it.
That’s badass! Always loved this movie
Such a lovely memory with this film. It was a rainy day in west Auckland where I grew up and my best friend and I had been playing on the farm all day when her dad called us in in the mid afternoon just as it started getting really stormy. Her parents had rented The Faculty and Urban Legend from the local video store and we all sat there watching them with popcorn and hot chocolate as the thunder rolled in. The 90s were the best. I love this movie, especially the score.
Urban Legend will always be a guilty pleasure -- also love Michael Rosenbaum in it of course.
Shame Alicia Witt never really became a bigger star. She's a truly fascinating person, if you know her history. Even seemed to have superpowers as a child! She was drawing precise aerial views of places she had never been to at the age of 1. At 5 years old she was reciting Shakespeare and played classical piano. When she still a child she was typing 140 words per minute, and appeared on the show That's Incredible.
Yes,she’s a truly remarkable and multitalented person.
This is hands down one of my favourite Scream inspired slashers of the 90's. The opening scene is genuinely chilling. It has a creative range of set pieces, and Sasha's chase scene is up there with Helen Shiver's as one of the best horror chase scenes ever. It's definitely flawed, but when it delivers, it more than delivers. Love it.
I read SMG was originally cast as Sasha but had to drop out because of Buffy. Imagine her having two iconic chase scenes?!?!
@@tylerleary113 Right. I also heard she didn't take it because she already had 2 roles in slasher films where her character died and she didn't want to do another one.
The opening scene is one of the best openings in slasher films...it's so well executed and the writing was so good
'90s, not 90's.
@@englishatheart LeviOsa, not LevioSA.
I saw this movie in the theater when I was 11 (went with my mom LOLLL) and it scared the poop out of me. Before leaving the theater parking lot, I made her check the backseat, under the car, the trunk, then when we got home the closet, the backyard, etc. It was the awakening of my love for horror movies, so this movie will always have a soft spot in my heart. Thanks, Mom.
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Hardcore mom!
I honestly loved the bit at the end where you mentioned pulling inspiration from less than stellar movies for your own work. As a film maker myself I actually more often than not will turn to less than stellar movies for inspiration because a lot of times they’ll have cool or interesting ideas that just aren’t executed as well and like you said, brain storming how I would do things better usually gets me a better idea than if I watched a truly outstanding film because for the latter I usually end up mimicking what was done where as with the former the idea is truly my own
i absolutely love these Halloween Specials! Hope you keep making them in future
Of Course he will
@@cordcuttercam i know he will. Cause i don't know what im gonna do if he doesn't
Agreed. Also the intro is incredibly well done!
Absolutely been loving these Halloween special videos chris and we’re so glad you’re still pumping them out my dude ,
WE LOVE U
One of the most iconic opening scenes of all time 🙌
It was so good
I remember watching this movie just because I was a big 30 Seconds to Mars fan and I didn't expect much of it since it's not as well known as IKWYDLS and I don't really like that that much, but that opening scene got me totally enthralled. Such a fun movie! Speaking of horror legends in this movie, I LOVE that we got not only Brad Dourif and Robert Englund, but also Danielle Harris, who played Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4 and 5 and Sheriff Brackett's daughter in the Rob Zombie's Halloween remake (and the Sheriff was Dourif!).
I loved the 10 second Morbius review 🤣
All we need to know 😂
Review Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2, I think those two movies are the most underrated films in the horror library, especially the first one.
I love this movie. I’ve always been fascinated with urban legends so no matter how cheesy this is, it’s still good in my book. Interesting kills too.
Im absolutely LOVING this years halloween special. Basically all the films youve gone through were big ones for me back when I was around 10-13 years old. Some of the first slashers Ive ever seen. Theyre all so bad but hold such a special place in my memory lol. Tell me were the same age Chris without telling me were the same age lol.
Joshua Jackson is awesome! He still had that hair in 1999 for Cruel Intentions. Great movie!
Appreciate all your content throughout this Halloween season!
Rebecca killed her role!!!
I can't tell you how much I used to replay her monologue reveal at the end!!!!
My friends and I skipped school one day & saw this. My memory of the film is tied to that experience of fun irresponsibly
This film is so nostalgic, as a kid I watched this at a friends house and I got nightmares for ages.
The best part of this movie is when Jared Leto’s character says “It’s Morbin’ time!”
The whole theatre started cheering and clapping. It was great.
This was one of my early introductions to horror. Yet somehow I still kinda forgot that this movie existed
I'm just recently getting into horror movies as an adult. I get creeped out fairly easily, but I love watching reviews and reading about them. Recently, my mental health tanked while waiting for a hurricane and I had to call out from work. I started streaming horror movies that morning and the first one just happened to be Urban Legends. I watched it and both sequels, Final Cut and Bloody Mary. Oddly, it calmed me down a lot and my anxiety wasn't as bad. They're all fairly terrible in quality, but I really enjoyed them.
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Hang in there! I hope you are feeling better. I do love how movies bring catharsis and make me feel better.
Late 90's slashers like the ones you described have a very specific well-achieved atmosphere and that is why I really like them. No guilty pleasure, I don't feel guilty about it, they are really good comfort horror/thriller/mystery movies.
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Can anybody help me finding a movie I saw once in school?
Things I remember:
1. The movie opens with a murder, somebody is thrown through the glass roof of some club ( might be illegal club ) and it is a friend of the College age maybe post college age men and women present in the club
2. Another woman ( i think black ) is murdered in a bathroom stall ( not a 100% that this is in the same movie )
3. The murderer keeps murdering all the friends in the group one by one days or even weeks apart.
4. Apparently one of the Guys in the group his father was in an insane Asylum as a Schizophrenic.
5. The father had tried his best to keep his son from becoming possessed by the Demon
6. The father is taken over by the demon and during a fight he is set on fire and kicked down an elevator shaft, but the demon manages to take hold of the son ( that last bit I am not sure)
I am 100% I didn't dream this up but I havent seen this movie since high school, so some details might be from other movies or even parody of horror movies.
I forgot this movie was from like early 2000s or late 90s and a Girl had brought it to school, so no idea if that helps.
Man Brad Douriff at the begining with the stuttering twist was great
i FULLY forgot about this movie! Don't think I ever watched it through, but I do remember the incredibly awkward commercials. Everyone is just so...smoothed out...
Edit: the egg story. Eugh. I remember meticulously checking any envelope for months after i heard that one
There was an egg story in the movie ? I haven't watched it in years , but I don't remember that part , Overall like he said , it's more of a guilty pleasure kind of movie for me
Oh , now , I remember , it wasn't in the movie , it was his story , duh!
The platinum blonde hair joke was dead on true Chris!🤣
And in the UK and Ireland it got even funnier with David Beckham's 'curtains' of hair look ,I was actually watching the Ring remake last night and the Kiwi actor in it totally also has them ,it carried ! Lol
This movie was shot in Toronto and my boyfriend at the time and his twin were the body doubles for the killer which cracked me up at the time because they were 6'2" and 180 lbs while Rebecca Gayheart is 5'6" and maybe 120 pounds.
So glad you chose to review this film Chris, this is one of my favorite low key horror films
I remember Rebecca Gayheart has a smallrole in Scream 2 as one of the sorority girls that goes to Sydney's college.
On the topic of critics accusing this of being a Scream ripoff - yeah it’s dumb, but I’ll at least give them that this and Scream and “I Know What You Did” all fall very squarely inside the “whodunnit” sub-sub-genre of slasher movies, which was NOT the trend prior to that. Pre-Scream everyone was chasing the next horror icon, and movies with a mystery killer were antithetical to that goal, until Scream laid out how to give a mystery killer a memorable personality.
A favourite guilty pleasure of mine is Dead Silence. I hope you'll review it. I love the creepy dolls stuff and horror with aspects of legends like this.
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I caught this on TV when I was 12-ish and the microwave scene absolutely never left me. Also may have started my intense squick about maiming with the achilles heel slice 😬
Chris: I hope you review DOG SOLDIERS as part of your Halloween season reviews. It is a great werewolf movie.
Really hope Chris reviews Halloween H20 and american werewolf in london and Hostel!!!
Hey, Chris! You didn’t mention that ‘Natalie’s roommate is played by Danielle Harris aka Jamie Lloyd from ‘Halloween’ 4 & 5 plus playing ‘Annie Brackett’ in Rob Zombie’s 2 ‘Halloween’ remakes.
In other words, you missed a huge detail, lol.
I had a feeling this was the film you were talking about in the I still know what you did last summer review. Total 90s horror film. Can watch anytime tbh
I thought I had never heard of this before but as soon as you started describing it I started remembering it man what a blast from the past
Urban legend, Scream 2 and I know what you did last summer - the first horror movies I saw and that got me love slashers to this date!! The slashers holy trinity for me!!
Good slasher movie of the 90s
Yeah...the library system is still going strong.
I work with a ton of people that still use the library as a regular resource for them.
This was one of my first R rated movies that I saw in the theater. Rebecca Gayheart was one of my first celebrity crushes as well.
I loved this movie as a kid! 🍿
I'd love a video where you discuss like 5 movies you would like to remake and how/why you would remake them.
Yes! I watched this pretty young and TV and VHS. May have even gotten it at the library eventually. It's a classic in my book!
Love when I arrive home from work a see you uploaded again!
This was the first slasher I ever saw so I echo alot of your sentiments. My brother used to dress up like the killer in this movie with the hood of his winter coat pulled over to try and hide his face. It never really worked all that well but I completely forgot about that time in my life until watching your review. Ah nostalgia
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That comment about Morbius was GOLD!
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When this film was released in cinemas I was too young to see it, however I saw the adverts for it on TV.
I remember having a nightmare once where I was trapped inside the film's story and had to lead the characters to safety. 😂🤣
Sony seemed to be on a roll in the latter half of the 90s. With the exception of the 1998 iteration of Godzilla, most of their films were enjoyable. Urban Legend was definitely an underappreciated horror film from that time. And yes, I definitely had a crush on Tara Reid at that time. As far as my grade for this film, Gold Class certification rating.
I’m sure it is because we are the same age but all of these movies ie urban legend, scream 2, I still know what you did last summer; Wes all movies I grew up watching and loving as well! Even the ones that aren’t fantastic still have a special place in my heart!
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I saw this one in the movie theater and have always had a soft spot for it. Took me years to realize that the roommate was played by Danielle Harris aka Jamie Lloyd.
I hope 2022 will be the year you give us the Interview With the Vampire review! 🙏🙏🙏
9:03 ooooffff that really hit me 😢 happy ten years guys!
Would love your review of The Ruins or The Descent for your Halloween specials. Love what you do!
I had such a crush on Alicia Witt after this film. Unrelated, all her running in the rain was ridiculous. I remember thinking this wasn't too bad back when I saw it. The cast was damn solid. Dourif set the tone for this movie.
Fun movie. Nicely shot, Alicia Witt is a cutie, like Robert Englund got a decent sized role
This is the most videos Chris has posted in a while. I’m so glad 😊
I grew up on this movie too and it was one of my first watches of horror. And I loved it. Still a fun film. Glad to see it talked about
Always enjoyed this one, been waiting for anyone to review it!
Bloody Mary was a big one in my area growing up, kids used to say she was buried beneath the baseball diamond at the elementary school for some reason
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"I watched Morbius", hahahaha, that's all the review I needed.
I remember how I made a group of church goers of all ages watch this in a church activity... every time I remember the doggy style scene, it cracks me up with laughter.
I remember Urban Legend quite fondly. I loved it back in the day. I revisited it recently and it has not aged well, but I still enjoyed it.
Nobody tell Chris that dial-up still exists. Though it is quite a bit different from what it was before, as your ISP gives you a number to use instead of your own home phone number.
Best line in the movie was when Jared Leto says, "It's Urban Legending time"
This and I Still Know are classics in my mind based on pure nostalgia.
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Don't know how true this is but still a fun/interesting what could have been: Alicia Witt (Natalie Simon) auditioned for the part of Sidney Prescott in Scream.
You should do What Lies Beneath.
i remember that same myth about the lady cutting her tongue on the envelope and getting the eggs in it back in the 90's
Goes to show you, every film has it's merit, even the ones that aren't as great. You never know who they will inspire :)
I gotta be honest. This has always been one of my favorite horror films. I never forgot what the killer looked like. So simple, yet unforgettable... for me, at least
I have hear the envelop urban legend. The was also one about a woman who had a beehive hair due for years and that there were roaches that burrowed into her brain. My mother, even with me being in my late 30s, still tells me to check my backseat before getting in the car.
Trick ‘r Treat’s Mike Daugherty is also a co-writer on Urban Legends 2
One element I appreciated was the reveal of who the killer turns out to be. Like, it wasn't insulting but it was definitely unexpected.
Chris any new update on Shelby Oaks?
That trailer in the beginning would put me off for sure, but I enjoyed the review so much that I just need to watch it and this point.
The strangest things is, I haven’t heard about that movie at all. Never. And I loved watching every slasher back in the days.
If it wasn't for this channel, I would have never discovered the Kevin Williamson era of horror. This year I've finally checked out his work in the late 90s. This guy was like the John Hughes of that era. His writing is just so different. I never grew up in the 90s but his writing is definitely on my wavelength if that makes any sense.
Now I'm really excited to hear chris talking about morbius
My friends dad stopped the car on the way home from the theatre to check the trunk and it was a great memory I still think about.
Even though I never watched Urban Legend, what you said at the end about watching movies to find ways to improve those movies is very true to me. A few years ago, I watched an animated movie called Rock Dog. It was pretty much overhated thanks to its similarities with Zootopia, but I thought it was an ok animated movie at best.
I since thought about how I could improve the movie, which resulted in a 4-book Rock Dog fanfic series that improves on the issues I had with Rock Dog called Mengcheng Dreaming, and I definitely had fun incorporating the good elements of Rock Dog with my love for Eurovision music and my childhood growing up in Singapore. I even created a soundtrack for the series and my book chapters are named after song titles (like the Netflix anime "Carole and Tuesday"). Rock Dog may have issues, but sometimes, it's great to look at other movies and either get inspired, or figure out how we could do certain elements of the movie differently...
Where do u get your shirts? Been a big fan of your channel for at least 10 years!
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Seeing the cover of this movie makes me think of Blockbuster, probably more than any other movie, ever made. It would always catch my eye as I glanced around. Never rented it though
Honestly this movie doesn’t really hold up to the rest of time, but even on rewatches it’s a super fun movie to watch and joke about. And just the number of high profile actors it showcased at the time?? Suuuper 90’s nostalgia
This is back in my day!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw this for the first time on vhs . The good ol’ days
love this. there is something about these 90s slashers/horrors that is so iconic, im not cineliterate enough to know if its the cinematography/aspect ratio/colouring etc but they just look so distinctive! Makes me hugely nostalgic. 🥰
Chris, it looks like we had the same marathon (even though I’m in Belgium). Next was The Faculty for me !!
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I remember when this film was released and even saw it in the cinema. Its clearly inspired by the Scream franchise, from the marketing to the delivery. It was that hip, slightly comedic, mildly self aware tongue and cheek slasher that Scream popularized. I remember it even being promoted as an unofficial companion piece to Scream - in that instead of horror movies being made fun off, it was urban legends, hence its mild self awareness.
One of my favorites. Scream Factory did a great job on the Blu-Ray.
The one thing that always bothered me is that Scream 1 - 3, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and The Faculty all got Laserdisc releases and this did not. It would have fit nicely with those on my shelf.
I just saw Karada Sagashi (2022) last night and they used the name-written-on-a-library-card thing, so I guess it still works in Japan!
I'm trying to remember a movie that Chris reviewed. It was a kind of minimalist low-budget film, where a small cast is just in a cabin or house the entire movie?
Dying to hear your thoughts on halloween ends!!!!! But since I dont think you review movies you didn't like, I'm guessing I already know a bit of what we'd hear.