Review – Urban Legend

My guess is that the success of Scream a couple of years ago is going to fuel at least a mini-renaissance of teenage slasher movies. And here we have a prime example: a psycho-killer inexorably cutting through the young, attractive population of a small east-coast college. The killer’s shtick is to off victims using urban legends as leitmotif, which is just about this movie’s only claim to distinction from other representatives of its genre (unless you count our natty maniac’s decision to use a parka as scary costume of choice, which probably wasn’t the best fashion call ever made). I guess I’m getting old, or at least out of practice, because it look a little more than an hour for the list of suspects to get winnowed down enough for me to guess the culprit. Enough in-jokes to make it worthwhile to at least try to pay attention. Warning, however: gratuitous (though not excessively graphic) dog violence. Mildly amusing