Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson
Remember all those nighttime sleep over scary stories you and your friends used to tell each other to try and make someone wet their pants? You know, the one about the girlfriend alone in a car in the woods while her boyfriend goes to get gas/pee/create suspense? Well, all those fun stories have come to life in the nifty and very hip "Urban Legend".
Starring the beautiful-haired Alicia Witt, formerly known as Cybill's perpetually PMSsed daughter, and so-called actor Jared "I've got blue eyes and I know it" Leto, this movie takes all those warm bedtime stories and turns them into a really good movie (shock horror!). Okay, so it's just another Scream, but we don't care. We're the desensitized generation! We want to scream and we want to know what you did last summer, and the summer before that, and the summer before that too, while we scream some more! And now we can revisit all those chain e-mails about the guy who had his kidneys stolen. Don't ya just love it?
I spent most of the movie tensing up, waiting for the killer to come and get 'em. When I wasn't tensing I was annoying Jane by saying, "Maybe it's HIM! or Her? I don't know..." Actually, I figured it out about 10 seconds before it was onscreen. Not bad for a genre where most of the films might as well hand you scripts on the way in.
Besides all this, FREDDY'S IN IT! FREDDY'S IN IT! Yes folks, that's right, Robert Englund, a.k.a Freddy Kreuger, dream machine, practically an Urban Legend himself, is in this movie. He's a god of the horror scene. He's 50, and he's been in that many horror flicks (almost). And he'll be back next year in Freddy VS. Jason. (Now that's an art house film we can't miss! Imagine all the social metaphors!)
Now, we will discuss the rules of the genre!
1)Your killer must be dressed in one of:
2)The heroine never gets killed, and neither does the boy that spends the most time around her. Which does not
mean that the killer is not the boy she sleeps with.
3)It is never the boy that spends the most time around said heroine.
4)Just don't ever think about turning around, cause baby, you'll die.
5)Trust me, no matter how much evidence points to the contrary, it is never, ever, ever, the guy with first billing. (really, it isn't.)
6)The heroine/hero may see every killing and may have a connection to every corpse, but he/she will never be targeted as the killer.
7)Guns don't kill people, pet doors, scalpels, hooks, pop rocks, axes and draino kill people. Guns are too boring and not bloody enough.
8)None of the corpses actually go through the normal stages of bodily decay. It's unerrving, really.
9)It's never the really creepy guy who's skulking around. never.
10)When the music gets loud and fast, someone's being chased. When it gets soft and tinkly, someone's being watched. When it goes BOMP! BOMP! BOMP! someone's axe is being cleaved into someone's skull.
Now you may think I've ruined the movie. If you do, then you've never actually seen a thriller, have you? In anycase, this movie, with familliar making-fun-of-itself tactics, is a scream to watch and you will definately remember it next summer.
My Advice: Stop being so pretentious, go see this movie or you'll get the big L.