Urban Legend

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Year:	1998
Country of origin:	USA / France
Director:	Jamie Blanks
Genre:	Teen horror fodder crap
Starring:	Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca GayheartMichael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson
Rating:	2/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146336/
Tagline:	What You Don't Believe Can Kill You.
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

Scraping the bottom of the Scream barrel, this was dull as pond scum.

The plot:
A college campus, infested only with beautiful young things, is suddenly traumatised when mysterious deaths begin to occur. There seems no connection between the victims, until someone realises that all of the murders are played out in the guise of one sort of urban legend or another.

And that's it.
That's the hook.
No Indian burial ground.
No ancient curse invoked when a gypsy women is run over by an 18 wheeler.
Hell, not even an entity from a parallel dimension sent through to experiment on mankind, to weaken us, ready for the invasion.
Nope, instead we have a killer who wanders around in a grey parka, with the hood up. Ooooohhhhh, I'm really scared.
Mommy, mommy, come hide me from the nasty man in the Parka with the woolly hood. Insufferably safe and middle of the road, this really is aimed at the amoeba end of the cinema digesting spectrum.
This spawned two sequels, incidentally and, rest assured, they will remain unwatched.
Rubbish!