“Urban Legend” has 90s nostalgia and folklore surprises worth revisiting

Screaming Arrived in 1996, revitalizing script movies and ushering in a series of imitators – Halloween and Friday, 13th This was indeed the case in the first waves of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Now we are in the third wave, ScreamingRewards of Success and Recent New Movie Releases from the Late 2000s I know what you did last summer and Final destination series.
A few months ago, 1998 City Legend– This produces two sequels you’ve never heard of – dug out by the resurrected wand and may soon find a new life under producer Gary Dauberman (magic universe). But when some people were released on a cash rush with Coattail, the original original is worth a look.
It not only has unexpectedly good actors (including Double PeaksAlicia Witt, Robert “Freddy Krueger” EnglundMy so-called life Jared Leto, Halloween Series veteran Danielle Harris, Future Little Weill Stars Michael Rosenbaum and 1990s teen dreams Joshua Jackson, Rebecca Gayheart and Tara Reid; Brad “Chucky” Dourif even had a cameo), but the premise is to inspire the folk tales of the earliest Slasher movies. It’s fancy, it knows – “A city legend serial killer? Black Christmas There is no that old yarn about the killer calling from the house.
Its settings are given City Legend A built-in horror list is available as the script outlines the explosive mixture of killers hiding in the back seat of the car, popular rocks and soda, showing “Are you unhappy you didn’t turn on the lights?” radiating blood on the bedroom walls, and so on.
Any lunatic is troublesome. But taking the main characters of the university together to participate in the same “Introduction to Folk Literature” course, at least thematically understandable scenes of elaborate death, especially once the killer’s motivation is revealed.
that is, City Legend It’s also a very stupid movie. It can’t resist a wink at the audience, whether it’s in a scene where the character really needs to “turn around” (according to the lyrics) and realize her doom lurking behind her, whether that’s in a “full hearted eclipse.” Cast stars Nightmare on Elm Street Being a creepy university professor; or let Jackson’s character’s car stereo reveal that he is exploding Dawson’s Creek Theme song. The campus cop played by character actor Loretta Devine is obsessed with Pam Grier’s obsession in multiple scenes…just because.
There is also a grand thor; “The Killer on the University Campus” is an old concept, Black Christmas Thanks again. In the past, almost all scam movies have stood out from the wrongdoing that incredible rewards are the only solution (at least according to the killer), and City Legend Tease the details revealed in a way that is not entirely obvious. Even if you figure out who the movie is going to be before the movie wants, these works are blended together in a rather satisfying way.

City Legend Being a relic of the 1990s means its history goes back to a particular intelligence, i.e., the early days of the Internet. The characters head to the library and school newspaper archives to find clues that would take 10 seconds in 2025, and when they need help, they run the payment phone. People’s pagers disappeared at the moment of interruption. Witt’s character must fight her roommates to take advantage of their shared landline – interrupting the girl’s dialing message board, dragging the gothy handsome guy.
one City Legend Remakes taken in the contemporary era (like the recent Slasher reboot movie) will have more advanced technology to help its characters communicate while figuring out what’s going on around them. However, it still needs to be bound to a story that justifies its title, perhaps through adaptation and updates that have become a viral feel to the urban legend. These stories may have caused fire due to the internet, but they still draw on our deepest, darkest fears. Are you alone in the house?
City Legend Starting on August 1 in the trembling stream.
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