Post-sensitive hunks and fraternity troglodytes look on with concern. Everyone on campus seems to own an oversize dark parka just like the one the killer wears. You get the idea. What s more, the 1973 murders were covered up by hiding the 1973 bound volume of the student newspaper. After all, he s played by Robert Freddy Krueger Englund.
Splatter movies can be delightful.
Urban Legend , directed by Jamie Blanks from a Silvio Horta screenplay, ends up a 10th-generation photocopy of Scream dumbed down for the Dawson s Creek set. The one urban legend in the film that has legs the old rumor that Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials died from a lethal combination of cola and Pop Rocks candy isn t exploited to its tragicomic potential. And Ms. Witt s irritable nose-ringed gloomy roommate shows promise but dies too early. Ain t gonna happen. Because this isn t entertainment.