Product Description

At the renowned film school Alpine University, one senior student is awarded the esteemed Hitchcock Award for the best thesis film each year. A down-to-earth documentary film student Amy Mayfield wants to take a crack at the Hitchcock. During a chance meeting with the new campus security guard Reese, Amy is inspired by the story of an urban legend at Reese's former place of employment, Pendleton University. Deciding to break away from documentaries, Amy's thesis film will be a work of fiction about urban legends. After writing the script, story boarding the shots and casting her actors, Amy and her crew prepare to roll camera. When Amy's film crew starts falling prey to fatal "accidents," she questions where fiction ends and truth begins. When all the dots start to connect back to her, she realizes she must unmask the killer before she becomes an urban legend.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28014 in DVD
• Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
• Released on: 2001-02-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.com
While Urban Legends: Final Cut is not nearly as terrifying or inventive as some of its predecessors, the film does offer up a fairly suspenseful whodunit that fans of the teen horror genre will likely appreciate. Amy Mayfield, the film's heroine (played by fresh-faced Jennifer Morrison), is the daughter of an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker trying to make a name for herself at Alpine University, "the greatest film school that ever existed." Along with several other students she is competing for the coveted Hitchcock award, which virtually guarantees the winner a successful career in Hollywood. When the film school's resident genius and likely winner of the award is found dead, suspicions arise. As other film students are killed off one by one, everyone becomes a suspect. Would someone kill to win the prestigious award?

While striving to be Hitchcockian in theme (as evidenced by its multiple references to the director himself), the film never quite moves beyond cliché. Many scenes are a little too reminiscent of other popular teen horror flicks like Scream (the anonymous masked killer, though not nearly as frightening), The Blair Witch Project (Amy is chased through desolate woods by her stalker), and Friday the 13th (Amy hides from the killer in a lake setting eerily similar to the one where Jason died so many years ago). These elements seem just a little worn out. Morrison gives a serviceable performance, and Loretta Devine, from the original Urban Legend, adds humor as a Foxy Brown-worshiping security guard. The film manages to keep you guessing until its conclusion, and a sequence set in an abandoned amusement park is truly creepy. But ultimately Urban Legends: Final Cut lacks the originality to make a name for itself among the many films of its genre. --Mindy Ruehmann

Customer Reviews

Very Much Under-Rated
I don't see why "critics" have given this movie such poor reviews, or why it flopped at the theaters. Urban Legends : Final Cut, to me, was a very good suspense thriller. Although the only connection it has with the original Urban Legend is the security cop Reese (who is hilarious), the movie lives up to be better than the first. Of course, there isn't much originality (It's got to be hard to think of something new after all these teen horrors have been released), but the acting is well done, and the effects aren't the worse in town. Jennifer Morris was awesome as struggling film student Amy. All the other cast members looked as if they really knew where their characters were coming from, and dove right into them. I also liked the way the whole Hitchcockian theme was used. Especially the cute little diddy that happened at the end of the movie. As for the DVD itself, picture and sound quality is excellent, and there is a great amount of supplements (inc. 9 deleted scenes, audio commentary, gag reel, ec.) found on the DVD. Even though some people think it is entirely stupid to recommend this movie, I do recommend it.

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
There are to many negative things to say about this movie that I have no idea where to begin. For Gods Sake this movie seriously gives a bad name to Horror. There was absolutely nothing scary about this piece of garbage. First of all, I have to agree with others and say that people were just ripping of Scream in some way when they made this, but unfortunately just made the movie 100 times worse. The plot, acting, and especially killings in this movie [was not good]! I encourage all others out there to save your money from buying this movie and even renting it. As someone has already suggested, rent or buy the first Halloween movie if you want to be introduced to a good slasher.

Contrived Hollywood GARBAGE!
This movie was the worst scary movie I have EVER watched. The only scary thing about it was the fact that it was made and shown to the public. I mean, why do they call it Urban Legends, if the killer doesn't even seem to kill by them? It was an absolutely stupid movie, with no plot turns and very little originality. The only good thing about this movie was Loretta Devine. And even she wasn't great. Please, for your own sake - DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! It'll have you screaming to get out! I loved the first movie but this was just a money-making rip-off. STEER CLEAR!