Urban Legend deserves its place in the pantheon of pulse-raising 90s popcorn slashers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2024

Urban Legend lacks captivating characters, but it does deliver on the promise of its premise by packing in a good amount of urban legend-related deaths. Props for encasing some of these urban legends in a piece of culture that may outlive the legends.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2024

Twenty years on, Jamie Blanks’ glossy, post-Scream slasher is a tasty slice of 90s teen horror: nostalgia softening its logical flaws, caustic young people, and of-its-time-ness into charms.

| Jul 3, 2024

A campy slasher that is just barely pulled off thanks to its charming cast and its inclusion of iconic urban legends, bringing to life stories that had previously only been told as ghost stories.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2023

Urban Legend is accused of being too imitative of Scream. [...] However, late screenwriter Silvio Horta‘s subversion of the film’s entire motif is something that goes unnoticed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2023

While it does not boast itself as the best, the legends it holds, the horror it honors, the red herrings it constantly crafts and the twist ending make it at least an entertaining viewing experience.

| Aug 28, 2022

It was just stupid. The acting, the story, nor the characters made any sense.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2021

This was a dumb movie with a terrible killer reveal that is just completely illogical. Also the outfits of the characters were insane.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 28, 2021

Not every film is going to be a masterpiece. Some entertainment works with its audience simply because it is disposable.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 27, 2021

A solid slasher that copies from the Scream template, whilst remaining its own separate entity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2021

Like many unmemorable college-set slashers, the film becomes all about how the deaths might one-up each other in gruesomeness.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 25, 2020

It may have that '90s stank on it (obnoxious and moronic characters), but the filmmaking artistry is commendable, especially in its handling of the killing sequences.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 6, 2020

Thankfully Natalie is offset by Urban Legend's greatest asset and the source of the vast majority of its historical goodwill: Gayheart's balls-to-the-wall performance in the climax.

| Feb 22, 2020

The jokey demeanor following the ultimate reveal destroys any and all momentum.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

Urban Legend starts off very clever, then gets a little less clever the longer it goes on.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2018

There isn't much real wit, or suspense, in this parade of slayings.

| Jun 7, 2018

The concept is sound, but it's gruesomely marred in the execution.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 25, 2015

The makers of Urban Legend stock their film with so many one-dimensional, cookie-cutter stereotypes that its potential for exploiting deep-seated fears gets numbed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2014

It's surely not the worst slasher film ever made, but it wastes the hint of creativity it promises from the outset.

| Oct 21, 2013

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008