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Tall tales turn into chilling reality in this sequel to the 1998 horror hit Urban Legend. Amy Mayfield (Jenny Morrison) is a film student at Alpine University who for her thesis project (which will al... read more read more...so be her entry to a prestigious competition for young directors) has decided to make a horror film about urban legends that suddenly and disturbingly come true. However, as Amy and her student cast and crew begin filming staged murders for the project, members of her team begin dying for real, and the survivors have to track down the killer before they become the next victims. And where do Travis (Matthew Davis), Graham (Joey Lawrence), and Toby (Anson Mount), three other students vying for the same prize as Amy, fit into this scenario? Urban Legends: The Final Cut marked the directorial debut for John Ottman, who previously distinguished himself as an editor and composer (he also performed both of those functions for this film). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: June 26, 2001

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  • August 20, 2011
    Sequel to Urban Legends is just as bad as the original. What is it with these films? These films are cool for the first two years they're released, and after that, people realize how bad these films were. In the case of Urban Legends: Final Cut, you have a film that is very poorl... read morey made, acted, directed with a paper thin story. The cast that are before the camera are terrible, and shouldn't be in acting in the first place. Those who actually have slight talent; I wonder why they would be in this piece of trash. The first Urban Legends sucked, and this sequel is just as bad as the original. This is another terrible attempt at creating a new, hip "horror" film for the brain dead MTV generation. But really, this is a stupid film that has no point. It's a good thing that teen horror films such as this, gave way to better, much scarier films like 28 Days Later. This film along with the first and a lot of others in the "teen" horror genre are easily forgettable because they don't offer anything memorable to the genre in the first place. Urban Legends is a horrid mess of a film that shouldn't have been made in the first place. Simply awful filmmaking.
  • February 17, 2011
    Urban legends are like myths but they come true on a college movie set.
  • June 13, 2010
    A film centered around making films, written by people with no knowledge of film. This is incredibly bad stuff. It doesn't help that the screenwriter has obviously never encountered a living human being before. Otherwise they may have concocted a realistic or original character. ... read moreInstead it's all the same shit, done at a low quality. The dialogue is painful to listen to, the kills aren't even interesting, and the constant mention of Hitchcock puts this film into some pathetic dream world. I'm not even sure how many Urban legends are actually followed in this film or if it just gave up on that premise. There's a literally pointless kill, that makes no sense and adds nothing to the film, as it was added in later to make sure a kill happened early in the film. It's trash, that just about gets by with a few laughs and an underused Eva Mendes.
  • June 8, 2010
    Liked the first one more than this.
  • September 13, 2008
    I quite like this sequel. Although not as good as the first, it's still better than many slasher films. It has a good location, ok plot and of course a young sexy cast. The finale is pretty good and creepy to. If you like horrors you should like this.
  • February 10, 2008
    Film students at a New England university compete for a prestigious Hitchcock Award given to best thesis film in a nonsequel (only one character has returned) that is as dull as it is grisly.
  • June 30, 2007
    Loosely related to the first film, this has a group of kids at film school, being eliminated in ways which followed urban legends. The death scenes are skillfully done and imaginative. I was totally grossed out with the kidney removal scene. There was a great scene of the killer ... read morefilming one of the students being killed, and putting it into the screening room, where the students were impressed with what they thought was well-done special effects. I liked the scenes in the mine-car caves. They should've checked the title of the first film, which was simply the singular "Urban Legend". The killer's fencing mask made little sense and wasn't very scary. The only carryover from the first movie was the police woman, who was now working as a security guard at the school; I wasn't too fond of her. The plotline became ludicrous with twins being introduced; this brought the movie down hugely. It also feels very much that it was filmed in Canada.
  • March 27, 2007
    Okay sequel. Could've been better.
  • January 27, 2007
    Weak.
  • June 12, 2008
    The original was decent, but this sequel goes out on a limb to be the stupidest, most hackneyed, and cheesiest movie to have come out of the teen genre in years. The storyline mostly rides on clichés, but really becomes a pretty confusing and annoying slasher yarn. The gore is me... read morerciless though, the opening murder being especially stomach-churning.

Critic Reviews


Lisa Alspector
January 8, 2007
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

This horror-and-suspense vehicle, which dabbles pointlessly in reflexivity, doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters. Full Review

Bruce Westbrook
July 21, 2005
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

What ensues is painfully horrific and reprehensible as entertainment. Full Review

Liam Lacey
April 25, 2003
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Impossible to follow. Full Review

Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, New York Times

Mr. Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion. Full Review

David Chute
January 1, 2000
David Chute, Los Angeles Times

It delivers bald-faced variations on devices that were originally deployed, albeit with a redeeming glint of irony, in the Scream films and in Scary Movie. Full Review

Desson Thomson
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

It's about as funny as the Yellow Pages. Full Review

Tom Maurstad
January 1, 2000
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News

So stupid and sloppy, it will offend the intelligence of anyone whose age surpasses his shoe size. Full Review

Jay Carr
January 1, 2000
Jay Carr, Boston Globe

How Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis keep straight faces through it all is beyond me.

Mary Elizabeth Williams
January 1, 2000
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com

It's predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing. Full Review

Steve Murray
January 1, 2000
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A bad remake of Scream 3. Full Review

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