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I actually find this movie to be a guilty pleasure. Who wouldn't want Jamie Lloyd as your roommate, Freddy Krueger as your teacher, Chucky as a gas station attendant, and Lex Luthor as a class mate.
Poor Jamie Lloyd gets a better death than she did in “Curse of MM”; course that was a different actress, Chucky doesn’t die despite being a cameo & well Lex gets one nasty fate after a sick surprise
Holy hell, the nostalgia rush after hearing “Someone’s in the backseat!” for the first time in so many years, gave me chills. Watching this as a young teen with my friends in the summer, just wow.
I had completely forgotten about this movie til now. I used to love it when I was younger only to realize I was like 10 when I saw it. Don't know who was supposed to be watching me but they sure as hell weren't lmao
That line was nostalgic for me too, but for a different reason. When I was younger, I used to watch this channel called PsychoSlasher13 super often. They posted Kill Counts(Not like James A. Janisse’s stuff, these were just montages of every death in a certain movie) and commenters would count how many deaths they saw. I remember watching that channel’s video for Urban Legend a lot, and even watching it with friends at one point. Ah, elementary school.
My dad gave me this movie for Christmas. I had been talking about actual urban legends which I was super into them at the time. He thought I meant this movie. Bless his heart.
Well there are better slashers for me personally in the late 90s then Urban Legend. Scream 2, The Faculty, Halloween: H20, ect .. But I have to agree if we’re gonna say the “Holy Trinity of late 90s Teen Slashers” then Urban Legend deserves that spot over all.
This is often regarded as a 90's low for the horror genre. But personally, I think it's a really fun movie. Always loved urban legends and unsolved mysteries, so this was a must-see. The opening scene is perfectly executed and just kicks ass. Ya got Brad Dourif as a well-meaning creepy gas station attendant, Loretta Devine as campus security, and Robert Englund as a college professor.
I'm happy to see so many commenters who enjoy this movie, I didn't even realize it wasn't well received until I watched this video. Everyone I know thinks it's a fun movie and we all love urban legends. The idea is perfect even if the execution isn't the greatest.
Here is my theory on the ending which makes it a bit more meta and smarter than the usual 90s slasher [MAJOR SPOILERS]: The entire plot of the movie NEVER happened. It was all an urban legend created by Brenda and the students in the library at the end of the film. The reason Brenda was the villain and therefore put at the center was because she is the aficionado on the campus urban legends (notice that she corrects the students telling the story to tell them "what really happened"). Therefore Brenda continues the story and the cycle of storytelling and modern myth continues amongst the college kids.
Haha, pretty much. I've seen the movie several times over the years and I still forgot who the characters are, compared to something like Scream. They're just so not memorable.
Hilariously Jared Leto pretends this movie doesn’t exist. Someone asked him about it in an interview recently and he was all “What’s that? Never heard of that?”
after reading all these comments, I would politely disagree- it seems like we are all in the "Urban Legend Appreciation Society" and I love to see it. I didn't even know it wasn't well thought of until I watched this video. Maybe I ask for too little from horror films. If I have fun with it, I'm happy.
Shot in the dark here but might I recommend the series Whitechapel? It's more of a mystery genre and it's a series but all the murders are based on famous murderers like Jack the Ripper for example so you might enjoy it? ^^
Concept was great but the movie missed it's Target mark by miles. Lacked everything that Scream had and made it a stand out phenomenal breakthrough movie.
@@bleeneo101 I'm not just saying this, but I've always thought what Ryan said. The 3rd act is a big problem because there's no motive for the killer to kill anybody but the first girl and the final girl. It can't even be argued it's to hurt the protagonist, she dislikes most of the people the villain killed.
On a second viewing of Hot Fuzz the other day I made the connection between Sgt. Angel showing up, dressed all in black, on a pale horse with the gun stocks on his back looking like folded wings: Angel Of Death.
Well atleast urban legends can actually be interesting, unlike those god awful crappypastas that people with no writing skills constantly feel the need to hyper realistically write.....
That story about the Blue Nun has a fucking bizarre coincidence to it because I also live in Northern Ireland (in Derry) and the school I go to has a legend about the ghost of the Red Bishop, who died and also haunts parts of the school. WTF
Oh, yes please! Relic is one of my favorite monster movies. I love the book as well, but it's one of those movies where I honestly don't mind that it deviated so heavily from the source material. They quite peacefully co-exist in my world. :)
I un-ironically love this movie. The pacing, the style, the humor, the CAST. I'd group it with CHERRY FALLS and FINAL DESTINATION as the best of the post-Scream slashers from that time period.
I was watching Legally Blonde the other day, and something felt off, I couldnt put my finger on it until this video! Both of these movies took place before everyone from instagram influencers to actual celebrities had these glow-in-the-dark-white bathroom floortile looking teeth veneers put in and it it hit me that actual human teeth looks in a movie looks strange nowadays
I remember a old school I went to that used to be a hospital long ago. Plenty of urban legends and ghost stories. Like if you walk down the basement floor hallway at night it will feel like ur walking for a long time like somehow the hallway getting longer. Plus plenty of ghosts like the ghost of someone who jumped off the roof or stairway ghost of someone who jumped over the stairway rails from the top floor and fell all the way to the bottom floor. I guess u could hear footsteps going up the stairs, see a shadow falling, or hear something hit the ground on the bottom floor. I think it just started as a story to keep the students safe from goofin on the stairs or not wanna break into the doors leading to the roof. Still plenty of stories of ppl feeling watched, hearing a loud crash, or feeling touched in the “stretching hallway”
I was raised on urban legends; my mom told them on road trips. It blew my mind when this came out, and no one else recognized any of the deaths as actual folklore. I've always thought this movie was surprisingly clever and meta.
I've seen this movie in SOOOO many thrift stores, but never bothered watching it. There's a certain charm to these 90s - early 2000s horror movies. They have a certain feel; a certain color pallete; a certain way of filming; etc. And, honestly, I am here for the overanalasys! I love it when people can look at pure garbage and still dissect it in an intelegent and thoughtful way.
I've always had the movie "Signs" with Mel Gibson as this strange relic that sticked to me. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was young and being terrified, and even now I find it to be pretty well paced movie.
OMG RYAN i commented on another video saying that i had a movie i wanted you to talk about, but couldn't for the life of me remember it, but i finally remembered it----- these final hours. it's an australian apocalyptic movie, but it's so much more than that, my description doesn't do it justice. watching this movie, it fucken changed me. i felt it on a visceral level, it's one of those movies that just STAYS with you. it's not necessarily a horror movie, although i would definitely call it terrifying, in an existential way.. highly recommend!! xoxo
This movie is pure nostalgia, came out when I was young enough for the urban legend ideas to hit really well. The weirdest old horror movie for me is “Cherry Hill” a horror movie whose trailer was in front of so many movies but I think I only tracked it down after a decade or more from first hearing about it.
i love that you were all "even if you don't know it, turns out oyu've already seen it" and a minute later you showed footage that made me go "OHH YEAH I DID SEE THIS LIKE 15 YEARS AGO OR SOMETHING"
13:33 when you never hear your name said in movies and/or youtube videos. I love urban legend ! i especially love the transformation the nurse takes when she "explains everything..."
I saw this movie on a sleepover at a friend house during middle school. It was the first slasher film I ever watched. I was terrified throughout the entire thing and I had nightmares about it for quite a while afterwards. Every death scene was really distressing for me at the time, but the one which traumatized me the most was the one with the guy tied to the toilet, forced to drink paint or whatever to death. That's the main reason I didn't watch horror movies until pretty recently
I first saw this when I was very young. Probably around 6-7. I didn’t realize at the time how absolutely insane the casting was. I mean, Leto, Reid, Englund, Duriff. Iconic cast.
I have a fun story about this movie. In one of my college courses, we were studying urban legends at the same time that the movie came out so, a bunch of us went to see it opening weekend, including the professor. We counted all the urban legends in the film; there are way more than you think as some of them are in background dialogue. We counted well over 20. The next class was spent breaking down the film and so I will always have fond memories of this movie.
I'd always heard about this movie from a bunch of different friends and always in the terms that Ryan mentioned: everybody saw it, no one really remembered it. Great video as always!
I used to always catch this whenever it was on television. In hindsight, this film is a pretty decent slasher for me and hands down Rebecca Gayheart absolutely killed it as the villain. The unhinged rage in her eyes is still burned in my mind after all these years!!!
God, I watched this movie soooo many times as a child. It was one of my favorites and started my obsession with Urban Legends. Many internet hours were spent reading about them and whether or not they had any basis in reality.
My favourite thing about this movie is that the script called for it to take place in the middle of a cold snowy winter and even though that idea was nixed when they started filming they still dressed the killer in a huge winter coat and had multiple other winter coats lying around to serve as red herrings. Everyone is in light attire but also keeps their heavy duty snow clothes within reach at all times and no one finds it odd.
Enjoyable film. The sequel is decent and you get a funny ending, not bad from a composer. Part 3?....well, pretend it doesn't exist cause...wth, can't believe it's from the director of Pet Sematary.
Aw, I remember this movie well. I watched it some time in the early 2000s, when my parents weren't home one night. Absolutely loved it back then, but no one I knew had ever heard of it.
I have a fond memory of watching this movie, I don’t remember tons about it except the jacket. I remember staying up late at my cousins and we watched Urban Legend together and Lake Placid right after. Those were good times growing up.
I remember this being one of my late mother's guilty pleasures. I wasn't really old enough to remember much about it (was around 11/12), but I remember the "draino smoothie" and dog in the microwave scenes the most, that and the killer wearing the parka but beyond that I can't remember much about it. But I'm going to have to rewatch it now, thanks Ryan.
I remember only mildly liking this movie... right up until Rebecca Gayheart decided to turn everything up to 11 for her grand reveal and at that moment I decided this one of my faves because of that one scene. It's so over the top that every line is camp genius, from "Miss THANG" to "DINGDINGDINGDINGDING", it's just so good
I saw this movie on late night TV at a sleepover when I was seven and it scarred me for life. Danielle Harris' death was seared into my brain. I rewatched it a few years ago and realized how ridiculous and silly it was but it still has a special place in my heart.
The urban legends final cut movie had me terrified that someone was going to steal my organs as a child and that’s honesty all that I remember from that movie
A movie I think you should definitely cover is The Changeling (1980). It's a Canadian psychological horror ghost movie. It won a decent number of awards when it came out but seems to be fairly forgotten nowadays.
Dope video. I was enchanted when I saw this film for the first time when I was a kid and became totally obsessed with urban legends. Although it's not a horror movie (but has horror imagery), I'd love a video about under the silver lake
I was 14 when this movie came out in 1998 and I loved it. Decades later now I can chuckle at how silly it is. The theme music still gives me nostalgic chills. It has such a haunted Tim Burton vibe.
Urban Legend goes for a classic "quirky killer using urban legends as an MO" to an actual weird supernatural being using urban legends to kills Yes, somehow i watched all 3 of them on my tv
There's a New Zealand horror film called 'The Ugly' that I was fascinated by in the nineties, but I'm not sure it's still around. It was directed by Scott Reynolds and it's about a psychologist who has conversations with a serial killer in a mental institution.
There was an urban legend in my middle school about how, after school hours, blood would rise from the cracks and corners of the hall's floors and a ghostly janitor would appear from the shadows to mop it all up. By morning, it and the janitor would be gone.
I never saw the whole movie but I happened to catch the last 20 minutes or so and saw the twist. Never went back to watch it. Also, the "THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE BACKSEAT" line was so well executed.
Interestingly enough; It is Robert Englund's birthday today. btw; Nice transition into the sponsor and I snorted at the "fuck off Jared", He really needs to.
The way you explain this also reminded me a lot of the movie Gossip. Perhaps an exploration of that movie. I don't think too many people have seen that one.
1. That add placement was actually genius. Well done, sir. 2. I'm glad you started focusing on horror a while back. Thank you. I'll be here as long as you continue to tear apart the best genre there is.
Urban Legend was the first horror film I ever saw. I was a 10 year old Mormon kid who had only seen Disney movies up until that point. I saw Urban Legend with my football team, and the opening murder TRAUMATIZED me. Hell, the whole film traumatized me. I wanted to scream and cry, but as I was surrounded by other hyper-masculine posturing pre-teens, so I bottled up my terror. I had nightmares for weeks. I wouldn't watch horror films for years after that experience. And when I began to, it was in controlled settings; alone, small screens, well lit, frequently paused. Anything to undercut the tension. Eventually I became a fan of horror as a genre, and build a tolerance (and even an enjoyment) to the sense of dread, revulsion, or mystery it can engender. I now think horror is one of the most significant genres of narrative we have as a society. It allows us to explore and process issues and emotions. It's cathartic. But even as I watched the analysis of Urban Legend, the long dulled scars of that initial trauma flared. The image of the bloody axe crashing through the window made me panic on a primal level. Seeing the goth girl be strangled again. The car hanging. The pop rocks and drain-o. Stupid cheesy stuff. Schlock. But those are the first glimpses of horror my brain ever saw. They are seared in the deepest regions of my lizard brain. On some level, that is what true horror looks like. Fun how even the weakest of 90s slasher flicks, if hit in the right way, can mess someone up for life? Thank you for helping me relive my childhood nightmares!
I still remember the reviews: "Interesting premise wasted on tepid horror film". This is one of those flawed movies which truly deserves a remake for its unfulfilled potential. But after all those creepypasta movies such as Slender man, it wouldn't feel as fresh...
I like this movie don't know why it not much talked about compared to at least I Know What You Did Last Summer I like the motive of the killer she is avenging her boyfriend who was killed in a Urban Legend by two uncaring drivers but she just turned psychotic she even had help and everything but it did nothing for her her motive similar to the killer motive in Prom Night the 1980 one.
While Urban Legend is certainly a great memorable film, it lacks the elevating quality of Scream.......But still, it's a great movie in it's own right and the sequel - Final Cut is a whole lot better in my opinion.
My favorite urban legend has to be the kidney heist where the guy wakes up in the bathtub full of ice with his kidney missing. Classic cautionary tale! I really think you ought to cover Fright Night from 1985.
Obviously a “Scream” knockoff, but I like the concept of using urban legends to kill victims. Even the killer reveal isn’t terrible & they don’t do the cliche *spoiler* “kill the baddie” at the end. There’s even a going Jared Leto before he became a “method acting” douche
@@ManubibiWalsh the first time I saw the movie I was like “that’s Jared Leto in the ‘90s?! Wow got used to his Jesus-y look”. Course I didn’t watch “My So-Called Life”
I had no idea this was part of a trilogy! As you mention, I remember this movie in the same vein as chain letter. And this movie definitely could’ve been a lot better than what we got, but it was still fun. Also, my school also had a rumor about a dead nun. My school used to be run by nuns. There was a rumor that a nun hung herself on the 4th floor of one of the buildings. There would be floating pew and bloody handprint that would change room. The 4th also overlooked our theater. And backstage there is a light that would never turn off back there as well. The story had been around when my mom went to school.
I don’t know why, but I love this movie. I thinks it’s just decent enough to take seriously and is a whole nostalgia-bomb. It’s one of those movies I watch every Halloween just because lol👏🏼👏🏼
There's a part of me that really enjoys these late 90s early 2000s movies, my english teacher was into urban legends and myths and we ended up doing a portion of one of our semesters working on urban legends so we ended up watching this movie, Final Destination 3 & other literature on urban legends. I find this movie to be something I watch here and there and I find its schlock horror entertaining, it's not necessarily a great movie but the nostalgia from my youth and the spawn for my love on urban legend and spinetingling horror definitely stems from movies like these.
I actually saw this opening weekend with a bunch of my friends (we saw a movie almost every Friday). It was, as you say, not a great movie, but it was a fun popcorn flick. The biggest problem I had was trying to figure out how the killer actually pulled off most of the murders.
Ryan's smooth Irish tones are the only thing keeping me from going insane after me and my friend killed a guy with a packet of poprocks to get our hands on this puzzle box full of chains and bald BDSM guys. I am wondering when my skin is gonna grow back though...
I mean it sure does hinge on a real spicy twist (aka the dude is Brad Dourif, my teenage self would not shut up about it since I was also a LOTR sicko lol). I wouldn’t say it’s as good as the Scream opening, but it definitely does the job. It sure is a cold open I still remember, which is barely ever the case for slashers at this point.
I honestly kind of like Natasha Wagner opening scene more than Drew Barrymore opening scene in Scream the intensity was so high and the atmosphere was darker like Brad Dourif was trying to save her but of course she think she's being attacked but him shouting SOMEONE IN THE BACK SEAT! was so intense.
Honestly, the idea of the big mystery ultimately mattering little reminds me a lot of Persona 4. In the end, there was no great truth like the one you were searching for.
Please watch Pontypool. It is one of my all-time favorite horror movies and I adore the Character of Grant Mazzy. I'd really love to hear your take on the movie.
Honestly the scene of Natalie's roommate being killed like that scared me so much as a kid because to the audience, what's happening is so obvious Even now that I'm older, it's still so obvious but it also makes more sense why Natalie would make the assumption she does and ignore it It makes for a really effective scare, and it'd be cool to see something similar in a better movie
I do hate how they write off her death as a suicide so easily, A) for the lazy stereotype that all goths are depressed and, B) surely an autopsy will reveal she was strangled to death and her wrists were slit after she was already dead...
@@GeeVanderplas A) Though it may have been based partly on stereotype, the main character also found a bottle of Lithium that was the roommate's -- they actually made a big point of that -- so the suicide wasn't entirely out of left field. And B) this entire movie took place over a couple of days, during which a huge storm knocked down communication... even if the autopsy found something, it would be too late to affect the story
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Session 9 and Chasing sleep please, thanks Ryan!
Week 4 of asking for session 9 💖
We need to talk about Kevin
I know you mentioned it a little in one video but would love a full review
The void, ginger snaps trilogy, repo the genetic opera, suspiria, Salem's lot, the lost boys, the ritual, hellraiser and byzantium.
Vivarium 🙏🙏
So many insanely 90s haircuts here. The budget for hair gel alone must have been astronomical.
It's where all my paychecks went to ,🙈
It's been known to raise a few hairs....
They say the production has yet to financially recover...🤣
Adjust for inflation and discount hairspray.
You should’ve seen the 80s
"Fuck off Jared!"
I've never been one to get taken out by quick lines like that but oh man, I had to pause and get the giggles out.
I forgot he was even in this movie (because he's just THAT memorable) until he was being shown in scenes, so that "fuck off" part was even funnier.
I actually find this movie to be a guilty pleasure. Who wouldn't want Jamie Lloyd as your roommate, Freddy Krueger as your teacher, Chucky as a gas station attendant, and Lex Luthor as a class mate.
Poor Jamie Lloyd gets a better death than she did in “Curse of MM”; course that was a different actress, Chucky doesn’t die despite being a cameo & well Lex gets one nasty fate after a sick surprise
Lol that's perfectly hilarious
Exactly such a fun cast
Do I see jared leto too in one of the shots in the library with robert englund?
Omg and the dean is one of the men from x files that was responsible for the cigarette smoking mans’ group. This cast is bananas lol
Holy hell, the nostalgia rush after hearing “Someone’s in the backseat!” for the first time in so many years, gave me chills.
Watching this as a young teen with my friends in the summer, just wow.
I still check my backseat and under my car at 32y/o
I had completely forgotten about this movie til now. I used to love it when I was younger only to realize I was like 10 when I saw it. Don't know who was supposed to be watching me but they sure as hell weren't lmao
first last and only time chucky was ever a good guy lol he was also on millennium too ;)
@@AshChiCupcak I was about 10 when I first watched it too haha
That line was nostalgic for me too, but for a different reason. When I was younger, I used to watch this channel called PsychoSlasher13 super often. They posted Kill Counts(Not like James A. Janisse’s stuff, these were just montages of every death in a certain movie) and commenters would count how many deaths they saw. I remember watching that channel’s video for Urban Legend a lot, and even watching it with friends at one point. Ah, elementary school.
NGL, when you were describing how the legend of the massacre had nothing to do with the killings, I thought of Hot Fuzz.
My dad gave me this movie for Christmas. I had been talking about actual urban legends which I was super into them at the time. He thought I meant this movie. Bless his heart.
To be fair, it’s a fun movie that deals with the subject in an interesting way lol
I always say Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legend are the trinity slasher films of the late 90's.
Yeah, the 90’s were very disappointing for horror
@@xipetotek8216 Yeah, but they sure had some slick, glossy, grand ham fun doin' it. Don't see that anymore, and likely never will again.
@@xipetotek8216 Overall yes, but it kills me seeing Scream grouped with it's shitty knockoffs.
Yep!
Well there are better slashers for me personally in the late 90s then Urban Legend. Scream 2, The Faculty, Halloween: H20, ect .. But I have to agree if we’re gonna say the “Holy Trinity of late 90s Teen Slashers” then Urban Legend deserves that spot over all.
This is often regarded as a 90's low for the horror genre. But personally, I think it's a really fun movie. Always loved urban legends and unsolved mysteries, so this was a must-see. The opening scene is perfectly executed and just kicks ass. Ya got Brad Dourif as a well-meaning creepy gas station attendant, Loretta Devine as campus security, and Robert Englund as a college professor.
agree, it was fun
I'm happy to see so many commenters who enjoy this movie, I didn't even realize it wasn't well received until I watched this video. Everyone I know thinks it's a fun movie and we all love urban legends. The idea is perfect even if the execution isn't the greatest.
To me this, along with Valentine (2001) are the best of the post-Scream slashers. Classic films.
I agree. The killer has one of the nicest horror slasher designs in my opinion. It's not over the top but still incredibly menacing!
That "someones in the back seat" had me checking my back seat for years
To this day I check it. Even when the suns out.
i still do
Shit. I still very do.
I still do at night and I'm pretty sure Urban Legend is where that came from.
It's the best scene in the entire movie. Just perfectly executed--no pun intended.
Here is my theory on the ending which makes it a bit more meta and smarter than the usual 90s slasher [MAJOR SPOILERS]:
The entire plot of the movie NEVER happened. It was all an urban legend created by Brenda and the students in the library at the end of the film. The reason Brenda was the villain and therefore put at the center was because she is the aficionado on the campus urban legends (notice that she corrects the students telling the story to tell them "what really happened"). Therefore Brenda continues the story and the cycle of storytelling and modern myth continues amongst the college kids.
Love this. The ending does cement the whole point of the story.
I like that
Do you wanna write the script for the remake because that’s an awesome ending.
Kind of like The Usual Suspects.
Love it
Your opening lines "everyone seems to have seen but no one seems to remember" literally sum up my thought when clicking on this video.
Haha, pretty much. I've seen the movie several times over the years and I still forgot who the characters are, compared to something like Scream. They're just so not memorable.
Hilariously Jared Leto pretends this movie doesn’t exist. Someone asked him about it in an interview recently and he was all “What’s that? Never heard of that?”
I say the same thing about his Joker
I wonder how long it will take him to do that with Morbius.
@@VoxParanoia what's that? /jk
@@VoxParanoia he got in on the joke for that actually lol ua-cam.com/video/c48HpTVfrK4/v-deo.html
Urban Legend is underappreciated
"Mikey likes it" 😂
after reading all these comments, I would politely disagree- it seems like we are all in the "Urban Legend Appreciation Society" and I love to see it. I didn't even know it wasn't well thought of until I watched this video. Maybe I ask for too little from horror films. If I have fun with it, I'm happy.
My favorite part is how Jared Leto pretends that he never starred in this movie to this day
When it comes to the horror genre most celebs do that. Kinda sad as that's usually where we first remember them from.
Kinda like we pretend Joker and Morbius don't exist.
I really like the concept of the killings being base off Urban Legends.
Shot in the dark here but might I recommend the series Whitechapel? It's more of a mystery genre and it's a series but all the murders are based on famous murderers like Jack the Ripper for example so you might enjoy it? ^^
Yeah like a serial killer takes on the MO of an urban legend would make for a cool story
Concept was great but the movie missed it's Target mark by miles. Lacked everything that Scream had and made it a stand out phenomenal breakthrough movie.
Surprise there hasnt been a killer like this
@@bleeneo101 I'm not just saying this, but I've always thought what Ryan said. The 3rd act is a big problem because there's no motive for the killer to kill anybody but the first girl and the final girl. It can't even be argued it's to hurt the protagonist, she dislikes most of the people the villain killed.
To be fair, that reveal in Hot Fuzz was incredibly satisfying due to hilarity.
It is all for the greater good.
(Repeats) 'The greater good.'
@@czguy3045The greater good?
How can this be for the greater good?
"Want anything from the shop?"
"You just got back from the shop!"
"I meant a different shop."
On a second viewing of Hot Fuzz the other day I made the connection between Sgt. Angel showing up, dressed all in black, on a pale horse with the gun stocks on his back looking like folded wings:
Angel Of Death.
Cannot listen to Total Eclipse of the Heart without thinking of this movie
Godddd
Same.
Iconic. If only the character would've listened to Bonnie Tyler's request to 'turn around'.. maybe then she could've dodged the axe swing.
SAAAAME FOREVER
I can't listen to it without thinking about Strangers Prey at Night
I actually enjoy this slasher. Granted it didn’t reinvent the wheel but it does keep you hooked.
Agreed!
Well atleast urban legends can actually be interesting, unlike those god awful crappypastas that people with no writing skills constantly feel the need to hyper realistically write.....
@@lutherheggs451 good point
That story about the Blue Nun has a fucking bizarre coincidence to it because I also live in Northern Ireland (in Derry) and the school I go to has a legend about the ghost of the Red Bishop, who died and also haunts parts of the school. WTF
This is a local mystery I now need to explore
There's also a book on a poltergeist 'true story' based in West Belfast called No91.
@@RyanHollinger listen, I don't know if you've seen many horror movies, but that could end badly.
Just living in a town called "Derry" isn't scary enough?!
@@MandleRoss Pretty sure that King based the town of Derry off of Belfast, Maine, and changed the name to be cute.
That was probably the best segue into a Raycon ad I've ever seen on UA-cam.
I remember this flick. I do like the comeback "I tried therapy it obviously didn't work."
Speaking of relics, would love to see you do a video on 1997’s “The Relic”!
One of my favorite old school monster movies.
I'd say that only Pumpkinhead tops it in that category for me.
I loved that movie!! Especially the twist ending! Makes visiting the Field Museum even more fun, lol.
Oh, yes please! Relic is one of my favorite monster movies. I love the book as well, but it's one of those movies where I honestly don't mind that it deviated so heavily from the source material. They quite peacefully co-exist in my world. :)
@@Areala21 I am saddened we never got a Reliquary movie.
I un-ironically love this movie. The pacing, the style, the humor, the CAST. I'd group it with CHERRY FALLS and FINAL DESTINATION as the best of the post-Scream slashers from that time period.
Cherry Falls is slept on so hard!
"It's the type of horror movie everyone seems to have seen, but nobody actually remembers."
So.... An urban legend? 👀👀
Nice! 😁
I was watching Legally Blonde the other day, and something felt off, I couldnt put my finger on it until this video!
Both of these movies took place before everyone from instagram influencers to actual celebrities had these glow-in-the-dark-white bathroom floortile looking teeth veneers put in and it it hit me that actual human teeth looks in a movie looks strange nowadays
I remember a old school I went to that used to be a hospital long ago. Plenty of urban legends and ghost stories. Like if you walk down the basement floor hallway at night it will feel like ur walking for a long time like somehow the hallway getting longer. Plus plenty of ghosts like the ghost of someone who jumped off the roof or stairway ghost of someone who jumped over the stairway rails from the top floor and fell all the way to the bottom floor. I guess u could hear footsteps going up the stairs, see a shadow falling, or hear something hit the ground on the bottom floor. I think it just started as a story to keep the students safe from goofin on the stairs or not wanna break into the doors leading to the roof. Still plenty of stories of ppl feeling watched, hearing a loud crash, or feeling touched in the “stretching hallway”
I was raised on urban legends; my mom told them on road trips. It blew my mind when this came out, and no one else recognized any of the deaths as actual folklore. I've always thought this movie was surprisingly clever and meta.
That "Fuck off Jared" was truly something beautiful
I've seen this movie in SOOOO many thrift stores, but never bothered watching it. There's a certain charm to these 90s - early 2000s horror movies. They have a certain feel; a certain color pallete; a certain way of filming; etc. And, honestly, I am here for the overanalasys! I love it when people can look at pure garbage and still dissect it in an intelegent and thoughtful way.
This movie had charm
I hate how smooth that sponsor transition is lmaoo
true. I usually skip adverts but Ryans are so creative I watch them every time :-)
I've always had the movie "Signs" with Mel Gibson as this strange relic that sticked to me. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was young and being terrified, and even now I find it to be pretty well paced movie.
OMG RYAN i commented on another video saying that i had a movie i wanted you to talk about, but couldn't for the life of me remember it, but i finally remembered it-----
these final hours. it's an australian apocalyptic movie, but it's so much more than that, my description doesn't do it justice. watching this movie, it fucken changed me. i felt it on a visceral level, it's one of those movies that just STAYS with you. it's not necessarily a horror movie, although i would definitely call it terrifying, in an existential way.. highly recommend!! xoxo
the older i get the more i love the scream rip offs
Same! Reminds me of the simpler days!
This movie is pure nostalgia, came out when I was young enough for the urban legend ideas to hit really well. The weirdest old horror movie for me is “Cherry Hill” a horror movie whose trailer was in front of so many movies but I think I only tracked it down after a decade or more from first hearing about it.
did you mean cherry falls?
sugar hill was a 70s movie and cherry hill is an amc theater in nj lol
i love that you were all "even if you don't know it, turns out oyu've already seen it" and a minute later you showed footage that made me go "OHH YEAH I DID SEE THIS LIKE 15 YEARS AGO OR SOMETHING"
13:33 when you never hear your name said in movies and/or youtube videos. I love urban legend ! i especially love the transformation the nurse takes when she "explains everything..."
I saw this movie on a sleepover at a friend house during middle school. It was the first slasher film I ever watched. I was terrified throughout the entire thing and I had nightmares about it for quite a while afterwards. Every death scene was really distressing for me at the time, but the one which traumatized me the most was the one with the guy tied to the toilet, forced to drink paint or whatever to death.
That's the main reason I didn't watch horror movies until pretty recently
drain cleaner like in the 1980 film "mothers day"
I first saw this when I was very young. Probably around 6-7. I didn’t realize at the time how absolutely insane the casting was. I mean, Leto, Reid, Englund, Duriff. Iconic cast.
I have a fun story about this movie. In one of my college courses, we were studying urban legends at the same time that the movie came out so, a bunch of us went to see it opening weekend, including the professor. We counted all the urban legends in the film; there are way more than you think as some of them are in background dialogue. We counted well over 20. The next class was spent breaking down the film and so I will always have fond memories of this movie.
I'd always heard about this movie from a bunch of different friends and always in the terms that Ryan mentioned: everybody saw it, no one really remembered it. Great video as always!
I used to always catch this whenever it was on television. In hindsight, this film is a pretty decent slasher for me and hands down Rebecca Gayheart absolutely killed it as the villain. The unhinged rage in her eyes is still burned in my mind after all these years!!!
God, I watched this movie soooo many times as a child. It was one of my favorites and started my obsession with Urban Legends. Many internet hours were spent reading about them and whether or not they had any basis in reality.
Hell of a cast. Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, Alicia Witt...
And some Oscar winner...
Danielle Harris
@@mattmccomas1 Who won the Oscar?
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 J Leto for Suicide Squad... nah just kidding! For Dallas Buyers Club
@@charlespuruncajas9663 Whew! ;-)
I love how at 10:22 Natalie is wearing almost the exact same outfit (even the red hair) Tatum was wearing when she was killed in Scream.
"Let's see Paul Allen's urban legend."
Funnily enough Jared Leto's character in this movie is named Paul.
@@ronburgundy244 and he was nearly murdered by an axe too
My favourite thing about this movie is that the script called for it to take place in the middle of a cold snowy winter and even though that idea was nixed when they started filming they still dressed the killer in a huge winter coat and had multiple other winter coats lying around to serve as red herrings. Everyone is in light attire but also keeps their heavy duty snow clothes within reach at all times and no one finds it odd.
Enjoyable film. The sequel is decent and you get a funny ending, not bad from a composer. Part 3?....well, pretend it doesn't exist cause...wth, can't believe it's from the director of Pet Sematary.
I didn't know there was a third one.
I love the second one!
They ruined the legend of Bloody Mary making it seem like it came from the 50s or 60s.
There were sequels?!
@@nunyabiznes33 The sequel is great! Urban Legends: Final Cut. That and the original are my favorite horror movies of all time
Aw, I remember this movie well. I watched it some time in the early 2000s, when my parents weren't home one night. Absolutely loved it back then, but no one I knew had ever heard of it.
Rebecca Gayheart played a good psycho killer she's such a underrated actress.
Some of her acting was pretty terrible tbh.
She is she was even originally suppose to been one of the Ghostface in Scream 2 and ironically she plays a psycho killer in this movie.
She was (is?) so hot too. Definitely contributed to my bisexual awakening in high school.
I hated her personally.
@@ManubibiWalsh Pics or it didn't happen
I have a fond memory of watching this movie, I don’t remember tons about it except the jacket. I remember staying up late at my cousins and we watched Urban Legend together and Lake Placid right after. Those were good times growing up.
I love the cute smiley on the thumbnail, great video, too!
I remember this being one of my late mother's guilty pleasures. I wasn't really old enough to remember much about it (was around 11/12), but I remember the "draino smoothie" and dog in the microwave scenes the most, that and the killer wearing the parka but beyond that I can't remember much about it. But I'm going to have to rewatch it now, thanks Ryan.
I liked “urban legend “and “Valentine” more then “I know what you did last summer”
I like Urban Legend but I tried Valentine twice. Man, that movie is boring and practically bloodless as well as not sexy or provocative at all.
Same IKWYDLS really hinges on Sarah Michelle Gellars stellar chase scene the rest of the film is kind of bland imo.
SHAME!!! SHAME!!! SHAME!!! But I get it lol
@@durantan2343 THANK YOU. I Know What You Did Last Summer was kind of a dud, it just had that one excellent chase scene.
Agreed. IKWYDLS is lame
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Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now is a more than excellent depiction of this subject you’re mentioning
Yes, finally someone talks about this movie--I am totally glad it's you as well.
I remember only mildly liking this movie... right up until Rebecca Gayheart decided to turn everything up to 11 for her grand reveal and at that moment I decided this one of my faves because of that one scene. It's so over the top that every line is camp genius, from "Miss THANG" to "DINGDINGDINGDINGDING", it's just so good
Such a great film…cheesiness and all. So underrated.
I saw this movie on late night TV at a sleepover when I was seven and it scarred me for life. Danielle Harris' death was seared into my brain. I rewatched it a few years ago and realized how ridiculous and silly it was but it still has a special place in my heart.
The urban legends final cut movie had me terrified that someone was going to steal my organs as a child and that’s honesty all that I remember from that movie
A movie I think you should definitely cover is The Changeling (1980). It's a Canadian psychological horror ghost movie. It won a decent number of awards when it came out but seems to be fairly forgotten nowadays.
"Oh great, rent-a-cop to the rescue."
This movie was the first ever place I heard that term, 12 year old me was laughin' my ass off!
Dope video. I was enchanted when I saw this film for the first time when I was a kid and became totally obsessed with urban legends. Although it's not a horror movie (but has horror imagery), I'd love a video about under the silver lake
Hangman's curse, a really obscure movie I've never seen anyone discuss online. Look into it.
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I was 14 when this movie came out in 1998 and I loved it. Decades later now I can chuckle at how silly it is. The theme music still gives me nostalgic chills. It has such a haunted Tim Burton vibe.
Urban Legend goes for a classic "quirky killer using urban legends as an MO" to an actual weird supernatural being using urban legends to kills
Yes, somehow i watched all 3 of them on my tv
There's a New Zealand horror film called 'The Ugly' that I was fascinated by in the nineties, but I'm not sure it's still around. It was directed by Scott Reynolds and it's about a psychologist who has conversations with a serial killer in a mental institution.
There was an urban legend in my middle school about how, after school hours, blood would rise from the cracks and corners of the hall's floors and a ghostly janitor would appear from the shadows to mop it all up. By morning, it and the janitor would be gone.
I never saw the whole movie but I happened to catch the last 20 minutes or so and saw the twist. Never went back to watch it. Also, the "THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE BACKSEAT" line was so well executed.
Interestingly enough; It is Robert Englund's birthday today.
btw; Nice transition into the sponsor and I snorted at the "fuck off Jared", He really needs to.
The way you explain this also reminded me a lot of the movie Gossip. Perhaps an exploration of that movie. I don't think too many people have seen that one.
I was literally talking about this movie with someone yesterday!!
1. That add placement was actually genius. Well done, sir.
2. I'm glad you started focusing on horror a while back. Thank you. I'll be here as long as you continue to tear apart the best genre there is.
Props for the decent ad segway
Urban Legend was the first horror film I ever saw. I was a 10 year old Mormon kid who had only seen Disney movies up until that point. I saw Urban Legend with my football team, and the opening murder TRAUMATIZED me. Hell, the whole film traumatized me. I wanted to scream and cry, but as I was surrounded by other hyper-masculine posturing pre-teens, so I bottled up my terror. I had nightmares for weeks.
I wouldn't watch horror films for years after that experience. And when I began to, it was in controlled settings; alone, small screens, well lit, frequently paused. Anything to undercut the tension. Eventually I became a fan of horror as a genre, and build a tolerance (and even an enjoyment) to the sense of dread, revulsion, or mystery it can engender. I now think horror is one of the most significant genres of narrative we have as a society. It allows us to explore and process issues and emotions. It's cathartic.
But even as I watched the analysis of Urban Legend, the long dulled scars of that initial trauma flared. The image of the bloody axe crashing through the window made me panic on a primal level. Seeing the goth girl be strangled again. The car hanging. The pop rocks and drain-o. Stupid cheesy stuff. Schlock. But those are the first glimpses of horror my brain ever saw. They are seared in the deepest regions of my lizard brain. On some level, that is what true horror looks like. Fun how even the weakest of 90s slasher flicks, if hit in the right way, can mess someone up for life?
Thank you for helping me relive my childhood nightmares!
Director Jamie Blanks did horror so entertainingly. He needs to start making more films!
I am always SO excited every time I see you've posted another video!!! This is one of my favorite channels :)
I still remember the reviews: "Interesting premise wasted on tepid horror film". This is one of those flawed movies which truly deserves a remake for its unfulfilled potential. But after all those creepypasta movies such as Slender man, it wouldn't feel as fresh...
I was just saying that this is one movie that could actually benefit from a remake.
12:58 don't you just love it when a movie suddenly shifts to a comedy
I like this movie don't know why it not much talked about compared to at least I Know What You Did Last Summer I like the motive of the killer she is avenging her boyfriend who was killed in a Urban Legend by two uncaring drivers but she just turned psychotic she even had help and everything but it did nothing for her her motive similar to the killer motive in Prom Night the 1980 one.
While Urban Legend is certainly a great memorable film, it lacks the elevating quality of Scream.......But still, it's a great movie in it's own right and the sequel - Final Cut is a whole lot better in my opinion.
Ghost Ship! I remember watching Urban Legend and Ghost Ship with a friend when we were younger.
I loved Alicia Witt in the Cybil Sheperd sitcom _Cybil_ with her best friend Maryanne and her nemisis ex-husband "Dr. DICK".
My favorite urban legend has to be the kidney heist where the guy wakes up in the bathtub full of ice with his kidney missing. Classic cautionary tale!
I really think you ought to cover Fright Night from 1985.
Obviously a “Scream” knockoff, but I like the concept of using urban legends to kill victims. Even the killer reveal isn’t terrible & they don’t do the cliche *spoiler* “kill the baddie” at the end. There’s even a going Jared Leto before he became a “method acting” douche
Not to mention Jared actually looked pretty at the time.
@@ManubibiWalsh the first time I saw the movie I was like “that’s Jared Leto in the ‘90s?! Wow got used to his Jesus-y look”. Course I didn’t watch “My So-Called Life”
Didn't this hit BEFORE Scream?
@@devinpaul9026 No, after Scream 1 and 2
@@devinpaul9026 nope came out in ‘98, 1 year after “Scream 2” & IKWYDLS
I had no idea this was part of a trilogy! As you mention, I remember this movie in the same vein as chain letter. And this movie definitely could’ve been a lot better than what we got, but it was still fun.
Also, my school also had a rumor about a dead nun. My school used to be run by nuns. There was a rumor that a nun hung herself on the 4th floor of one of the buildings. There would be floating pew and bloody handprint that would change room. The 4th also overlooked our theater. And backstage there is a light that would never turn off back there as well. The story had been around when my mom went to school.
I don’t know why, but I love this movie. I thinks it’s just decent enough to take seriously and is a whole nostalgia-bomb.
It’s one of those movies I watch every Halloween just because lol👏🏼👏🏼
good job, very clear editing etc. cool stuff
There's an URBAN LEGEND that the Horror Daddy will never not make a banger video
There's a part of me that really enjoys these late 90s early 2000s movies, my english teacher was into urban legends and myths and we ended up doing a portion of one of our semesters working on urban legends so we ended up watching this movie, Final Destination 3 & other literature on urban legends. I find this movie to be something I watch here and there and I find its schlock horror entertaining, it's not necessarily a great movie but the nostalgia from my youth and the spawn for my love on urban legend and spinetingling horror definitely stems from movies like these.
I actually saw this opening weekend with a bunch of my friends (we saw a movie almost every Friday). It was, as you say, not a great movie, but it was a fun popcorn flick. The biggest problem I had was trying to figure out how the killer actually pulled off most of the murders.
Completely evergreen quote from Ryan at 13:33
Ryan's smooth Irish tones are the only thing keeping me from going insane after me and my friend killed a guy with a packet of poprocks to get our hands on this puzzle box full of chains and bald BDSM guys. I am wondering when my skin is gonna grow back though...
YO! That Raycon ad transition was SO GOOD!
Natasha Wagner opening scene in this movie is definitely on par with Drew Barrymore opening scene in the first Scream movie.
I mean it sure does hinge on a real spicy twist (aka the dude is Brad Dourif, my teenage self would not shut up about it since I was also a LOTR sicko lol). I wouldn’t say it’s as good as the Scream opening, but it definitely does the job. It sure is a cold open I still remember, which is barely ever the case for slashers at this point.
I honestly kind of like Natasha Wagner opening scene more than Drew Barrymore opening scene in Scream the intensity was so high and the atmosphere was darker like Brad Dourif was trying to save her but of course she think she's being attacked but him shouting SOMEONE IN THE BACK SEAT! was so intense.
Hahahahahaha
Agree
Wait, you people are being serious?
One of my favourite movies of all time, not because it's that good but because i love the concept. I wish something similar could be done, but better.
Honestly, the idea of the big mystery ultimately mattering little reminds me a lot of Persona 4. In the end, there was no great truth like the one you were searching for.
Your seamless segue into your sponsor was excellent.
Please watch Pontypool. It is one of my all-time favorite horror movies and I adore the Character of Grant Mazzy. I'd really love to hear your take on the movie.
Wow man these videos are addictive good job. It’s dope to see someone find their thing
Honestly the scene of Natalie's roommate being killed like that scared me so much as a kid because to the audience, what's happening is so obvious
Even now that I'm older, it's still so obvious but it also makes more sense why Natalie would make the assumption she does and ignore it
It makes for a really effective scare, and it'd be cool to see something similar in a better movie
I do hate how they write off her death as a suicide so easily, A) for the lazy stereotype that all goths are depressed and, B) surely an autopsy will reveal she was strangled to death and her wrists were slit after she was already dead...
@@GeeVanderplas A) Though it may have been based partly on stereotype, the main character also found a bottle of Lithium that was the roommate's -- they actually made a big point of that -- so the suicide wasn't entirely out of left field. And B) this entire movie took place over a couple of days, during which a huge storm knocked down communication... even if the autopsy found something, it would be too late to affect the story