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Urban Legend is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Jamie Blanks released in USA on 25 september 1998 with Jared Leto

Urban Legend (1998)

Urban Legend
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Released in USA 25 september 1998
Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Horror,    Slasher
Rating56% 2.800852.800852.800852.800852.80085

Urban Legend is a 1998 American slasher film starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, and Rebecca Gayheart. The film is based on the premise that a killer is using the methods of death described in certain urban legends to kill students at a New England university.

The film was followed by Urban Legends: Final Cut, which was released in theaters in 2000, and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, which went direct-to-video in 2005.

Synopsis

At a gas station, Michelle Mancini (Natasha Gregson Wagner) fights off an apparent attack by a stuttering attendant (Brad Dourif). However, he was actually trying to warn her of an attacker in the back seat, and as Michelle drives off, the attacker in the back seat decapitates her with an axe. On a college campus, student Parker Riley (Michael Rosenbaum) relates how one of the campus halls, Stanley Hall, had been the site of a massacre in 1973. The story is discredited by school journalist Paul Gardner (Jared Leto).

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