Urban Legend Critic Reviews
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Maybe there will be an oversaturation of ''Scream''-inspired horror films someday soon, but this one feels fresh. Read the full review
It's no worse than any number of other cookie-cutter slasher flicks geared for the slightly post-pubescent market.Read the full review
The film is competently made, and the attractive cast emotes and screams energetically.Read the full review
A premise so rock-solid, so guaranteed to please, that it almost doesn't matter that the movie is otherwise a routine slasher, and not a particularly scary one. Read the full review
Before long, however, the suspense becomes repetitious and predictable. In its denouement, the film breaks faith with its audience, violating credibility in an attempt to deliver a surprise villain.Read the full review
With each death, the film becomes less interesting. By the end, it's just a routine slasher flick with a too-predictable final "twist."Read the full review
Proficiently filmed and utterly uninspired.Read the full review
A low-voltage drive-in movie, made strictly by the book.Read the full review
Urban Legend has an undeniably clever premise, which plays on a sort of cultural mythology shared by the filmmakers and the ostensibly media-savvy audience, but it fails to do anything interesting with it. Read the full review
