6) Urban Legend (1998)
This one again falls under the heading of “great idea, bad film.”
With the Scream franchise in full swing, and a new era of slasher-horror emerging with the likes of I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1998’s Urban Legend seemed perfect for the time. A series of grisly murders exacted on college students taking various urban legends as inspiration? Sounds great. Well, yes, but Urban Legend riffed just a little too much on those “other” films to leave a finished feature that was as familiar and predictable as it was tedious.
[zergpaid]With the extent that social media now controls our lives, the time seems right for an update of the story. Perhaps a Blumhouse production would work best; a young director with a limited budget that ensures an emphasis on storytelling?
One thing is for certain, this was a film that slipped under the radar at the time of release and is now no more than an urban legend itself, so there’s pretty much no-one to offend with this one.