Silly Slasher (Urban Legend (DVD))

Member Name: Andwynn

Product:	Urban Legend (DVD)
Date:	05/07/00 (22 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: vaguely entertaining time filler

Disadvantages: very very silly and fairly predictable

An Urban Legend is a folklore-myth which is passed on by rumour and
legend through a community. Everyone knows someone who knows someone
who's friend it happened to. It's true, really! Someone on campus
had a friend who's sister's boyfriend's classmate went to a party and
came back missing a kidney! It really happened!

The main character is played by the girl that plays the younger
daughter in Cybil has a group of friends - her best friend, Brenda,
who fancies the college reporter, Pauls; Damon, who is a practical
joker, and a letch; Sasha, the campus DJ, with an extremely raunchy
phone-in show.

It starts with a girl driving in the rain. She runs out of petrol and
pulls in to a tiny, out of the way petrol station. Sounding familiar
yet? The petrol attendant appears, and whilst filling the can, he
looks in the back window. He takes the girl's credit card, then returns
to tell her that the credit card company is on the phone, and she must
get out of the car and go to the office. She doesn't want to, she is
extremely suspicious. A lot more so when she finds that the phone has
no-one on it, and that the attendant has locked her in. Does it sound
like anything that has happened to any friends of friends of ours yet?

One by one, the characters go missing or are killed in the style of
various urban legends. I don't know how familiar all of these ULs are
to everyone else, but I tend to go out of my way to read them, and so
all but one of them was familiar to me. I'm not sure if this helped
the film, or detracted from it. I think that the idea is that the
viewer already knows the stories, and is just waiting to see how they
manifest themselves.

This is a standard slash and chop film. The only difference is the
Urban Legend factor, obviously. The fact that you won't know who the
killer is,
but you can make some good guesses all the way through, is
fairly standard and well used. All in all, it's a fairly average film.

Watch out for the final line by the killer, in my humble opinion, it's
a classic.

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