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Urban Legend | 
| Director: Jamie Blanks
Actors: Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Michael Rosenbaum, Loretta Devine
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  281 reviews
Sales Rank: 14054
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD03091D
ISBN: 0767824954
UPC: 043396030916
EAN: 9780767824958
ASIN: 0767824954
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 1998
Release Date: February 23, 1999
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| Editorial Reviews:
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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
Product Description
A mysterious campus killer is using well-known urban legends as a pattern for murder. With filmmakers commentary and featurette. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/07/2004 Starring: Jared Leto Alicia Witt Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R
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 so much fun! October 28, 2008
Elizabeth LaTrace
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 September 8, 2008
LGANS316 (Tokyo Japan)
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
Urban Legend July 1, 2008
A. Pierre (Somewheres)
I saw this movie years ago and for some reason, I wanted to watch it again recently. I love urban legends and horror movies so this movie could do no wrong-yea right. This is a typical late 90's teen horror movie with teenage stars who were hot at the time and basically faded within a year or two. Rooert Englund did a decent job as the professor. The death scenes were creative in the way they were all part of urban legends-duh. Overall, decent but nothing stands out.
 Bargain Bin Material May 8, 2008
Pat Shand (Freeport, NY USA)
It's always interesting to see movies from your childhood again. I remember watching this movie--and really liking it--when I was eleven, so I thought it would be interesting to re-watch this movie as an adult and see if it was really good or... not. Well, it's not even close to as good as I originally thought it to be, but there are some pretty cool ideas here.
Slasher films have all been done before, so you won't find anything utterly new or innovative here, but the overall premise is a very good one. A killer who uses urban legends as a means of killing people is an interesting concept, one that is executed quite well in this film. The execution of the "urban legends come true" scenes are pretty well done, but plot itself, such as the reason behind these murders, doesn't ring true to me. The killer had motivation to kill only two of the people he/she (I use the he/she to avoid spoilers) did kill, but the rest of them... not so much. It can be argued that the killer is just crazy or did it all to torment the main character, but it just seemed like a cheap excuse to show a bunch of kids being murdered in variously innovative ways.
The music is actually pretty good, adding to the suspense and overall feel of the film, but there are a few things that really bring this down. Even for a teen flick, the acting is fairly awful. Alicia Witt as the lead is totally unconvincing, and--I hate to say this because I love My So-Called Life--Jared Leto was not at all impressive. The rest of the cast was hit or miss, with Joshua Jackson (in his short but entertaining roll) being a hit and Tara Reid being a miss (they cast her in that roll for two reasons, and neither is acting talent).
All in all, it's a fun watch, but you'd be better off with Scream, as that movie has less wasn't-supposed-to-be-cheesy-but-it-was moments, better dialogue, and better acting. As for "Urban Legend," if you can find it in the bargain bin at the DVD store, go for it, but otherwise you should pass on it.
4/10
This Movie Is Good March 19, 2008
Toni Michele Cabrol (Chicago, IL USA)
I Remember Seeing Joshua Jackson In Those Mighty Ducks Movies And Then Watching This And Wow He Grew up Fast. And Of Course When Jared Leto use to be cute and cool
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