Urban Legend (1998) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show
you a horror-slasher film: "Urban Legend"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The film begins on a dark rainy night with a young woman named Mich,
driving her pickup truck while listening to a campus radio D J from Pendleton University. Mich
takes her eyes off the road to reach something from the backseat; but then, a car horns at her,
prompting her to maneuver her vehicle to avoid colliding. After almost getting in an accident,
Mich listens to a song. She's jamming to the song when she realizes she's almost out of gas,
so she stops at a nearby gas station. The strange-looking attendant startles her
as he suddenly appears at her window. She ignores that, and gives her credit card,
so the attendant can fill her tank. As the attendant puts the nozzle in the tank,
he notices something in her backseat. He doesn't say something and runs inside the
store; but he comes out shortly after, and informs Mich that her credit card company
is on the line to speak with her. Mich reluctantly follows the attendant into
his office, discovering no one on the phone. she runs to the door to leave,
but realizes it is locked. The attendant suddenly approaches her, and stutters to say something;
so she budges her way out of the office. Mich returns to her car screaming, and drives over
to the attendant, who yells that someone is in the backseat. she calms herself while going away,
when she sees someone in her backseat. she gasps in shock and fear; but the mysterious person
behind swings the ax at her, breaking her window. That same night, inside a coffee shop lounge at
the University, college student Park, tells a 25-year-old urban legend to his friends.
It's called the "Stanley Hall Massacre," in which an abnormal psychology doctor went crazy.
Brenda and Nat listen with skepticism, as Park tells them that the doctor slashed the throats
of every student that opened their doors for him, before stabbing himself in the heart.
This legend created an annual frat party to commemorate the said massacre on the
campus. a pontifical college Reporter joins the group and claims it's an urban legend
only. Nat agrees as there's no proof; but Park adds that Pendleton University might
have hidden the evidence from the media, as it would permanently affect enrollment.
Reporter sneers at Park's stories before leaving, and Brenda does not even bother
to hide her attraction toward the reporter. After a while, Nat and Brenda walk toward the
closed-down Stanley Hall campus building, where Brenda convinces Nat to chant Bloody
Mary five times as a gag. They laugh at their silliness when they hear a guy's faint screams
of pain. They walk away because of fear, when a misfit student named Nerd, surprises them.
He taunts them over going inside the boarded-up building. Brenda and Nat split ways,
and Nat returns to her dorm room to find her Roommate being intimate with a Goth guy. Nat
puts herself to sleep wearing a headset, so she can't hear their hormone noises.
The following day, Professor discusses folklore and urban legends,
and asks Brenda to be a volunteer for his little experiment. Brenda comes upstage,
where Professor gives her pop rock candy and a can of soda. Brenda refuses to accept the soda,
as there's a folklore that the person's stomach and intestines explode if mixed. Brenda claims
that a commercial kid died because of mixing pop rock candy and soda, but Professor debunks it. He
shows pictures of the commercial kid, alive and well, and working as an ad executive.
However, Brenda is still reluctant to drink the soda; so Nerd volunteers instead. He
takes the pop rock candy, and drinks the soda to prove that the urban legend is true. Professor
and the class laugh as Nerd's stomach do not explode. However, Nerd suddenly loses balance,
and falls off the stairs as his mouth foams. Everyone worried about Nerd, who smirks at Brenda,
indicating it's a prank. They laugh at his silliness, before returning to their seats.
Later that day, Brenda and Nat see the Dean and campus security Guard, confiscating copies of
the school newspapers detailing the decapitation murder last night. Reporter protests to the Dean
about a possible serial killer on campus, but the Guard informs him that Pendleton University has
been named the safest university in the US. Later that night, Nat and the group watch the news
in the coffeehouse. The gas station attendant is the primary suspect in Mich's murder,
and he is on the loose. They wonder if anyone knows Mich, but neither of them claims to know
the murder victim. After class, Nat returns to her dorm, where it is revealed that she
and Mich were captains of the cheerleading squad in the high school yearbook.
Nat closes the book after Nerd enters the room to ask if she's going to the frat party. However,
he notices her melancholic facial expression and consoles her. Nerd takes her into a secluded
area in the nearby woods to distract her. Nat shares her friendship with Mich, but refuses to
tell Nerd any further details. Nerd reassures her that he knows what she's going through;
but Nat becomes angry after realizing that he's only after sexual pleasure.
Nat demands to be taken home; but Nerd exits the car to take a piss first. While peeing,
someone suddenly attacks him from behind with a rope. Nat goes out to check on Nerd,
as he hasn't returned after a few minutes. However, she faces a mysterious person with
a heavy hooded coat, prompting her to return inside the vehicle and lock it,
believing that the car might be ghost-proof. Nat desperately starts the ragged car,
when something suddenly drops on top of the vehicle. The hooded person suddenly
appears on her windshield, prompting Nat to drive off, and causing Nerd to be choked
to death because of the rope attached to the car's bumper, causing the car to stop suddenly,
and the hooded person to be thrown. However, it gets up and breaks the windshield, prompting Nat
to drive back and crash into the tree. Nerd's body suddenly drops on top of the car,
prompting Nat to run for her shitty life. In a panic, she goes to the campus security office,
and tells the Guard about the killing. They return to check it out, but find it calm and
empty, with the car and Nerd's body gone. The following day, Nat's friends are skeptical
about Nerd's disappearance. They think it's one of Nerd's practical jokes, as what happened before in
the woods is an urban legend. Because of this, Nat realizes that someone on campus is turning these
urban legends into a reality. Later that day, Nat goes to the library to research urban legends by
reading a book. While checking out the book with D J, Nat's Roommate meets a fellow Goth guy online,
and plans to meet for some hormone yoga. she exits her room to prepare for the date,
and when she returns from the bathroom, the killer suddenly attacks her. Not long after,
Nat arrives and assumes the noises are of her Roommate having hormone exchange again. The
killer pulls out the electrical plugs to keep it dark, and Nat goes to bed with her back on them,
not realizing her Roommate is being strangled to death. The following day, Nat wakes up, only
to see blood on the floor from her Roommate's bed. She removes the blanket off her Roommate, and sees
her wrist slashed, and writing on the wall. It's a message from the killer, teasing her that
she's supposed to be glad she didn't turn on the lights last night. the Roommate's death spreads
like wildfire on campus, and everyone thinks she committed suicide, as she was diagnosed
as manic depressive. Even the Guard and the Dean think it's a morbid suicide, because no
forced entry or foul play is involved. Despite Nat insisting that her Roommate was
killed by someone last night, no one believed her. Later, Nat is approached by Reporter, who shows
a photocopy of her high school yearbook, and asks for an interview. Reporter promises to keep their
conversation off the record, so Nat agrees. Nat shares her idea about a serial killer turning
these urban legends into a reality, but the question of why remains. Nat then realizes
that the day is the 25th anniversary of the Stanley Halls Massacre, so Reporter takes her
to his hidden spot, where he keeps a record of his articles. However, the 1973 yearbook is missing,
so they ask the janitor, who worked in the university before the said massacre. Nevertheless,
he tells them to go ask Professor and leaves. So they go to Professor's office, and they break
in upon realizing he's not there. Reporter searches his desk, while Nat wanders around the
room, focusing on the books on the wall. However, she finds a hidden room, where she finds the same
heavy hooded coat, and an ax that presumably killed Mich. Nat calls Reporter's attention,
and they both realize that Professor might be the killer. Suddenly, they hear someone entering,
so they lock themselves in the room. They wait a few moments before coming out again,
only to be caught red-handed by Professor. The two are taken to the Dean's office. They accuse
Professor of being a murderer; but he clarifies that the ax is a prop for his folklore class.
Reporter then brings up the Stanley Hall Massacre; so the Dean asks Professor to leave. Once alone,
the Dean reveals that Nat was once on probation for reckless endangerment, while Reporter is
fired from the school newspaper. The Dean tells the two to stop investigating something that
never happened. Outside, Nat pisses Reporter off after she continues to avoid his questions about
her past, or the fact that she knew Mich. Later that day, Nat watches Brenda doing laps in the
swimming pool when she sees someone. It's the killer wearing the hooded coat
approaching Brenda; so Nat breaks the window with a chair. but she soon realizes it's a
fellow student. In the lockers, Nat finally confides in Brenda, and confesses that she
knew Mich. The flashback shows Nat and Mich in a car at night, and the story about the gang's
high beam initiation had been going around. It happens when an incoming car flashes its lights
at a vehicle, as a warning not to drive without lights in the dark. In that case,
Mich turns her lights off, and chases the car that flashes its lights at her. Nat remains
in the passenger seat silently, and doesn't stop Mich until its driver loses control.
The ambulance arrives shortly after, but the driver is already dead. Fortunately for them,
the court only gave them probation; but after that incident, Nat never spoke to Mich again.
Meanwhile, while cleaning his work desk, Reporter accidentally finds a newspaper from
about 25 years ago, showing that Professor is the sole survivor of the Stanley Halls Massacre.
On the other hand, the Dean refuses to get more security on the campus because of the recent
events. the Guard gets pissed off and leaves. Then, the killer slashes Dean's ankles, before
removing himself from underneath the car. The Dean crawls in fear for his life, while the killer
starts his car and watches as it runs over the victim, killing him with the metal barriers.
Meanwhile, Reporter arrives at the fraternity house party Park, and shows the old newspaper
to Nat, claiming that Professor may be responsible for the recent killings.
he believes that Professor went mad after surviving the massacre, and started killing
students. Nat suggests calling the police, but Reporter informs her that the Dean warned the
authorities about the possibility of prank calls that night, especially from the two of them.
Nat breaks down into tears from fear and anxiousness; so Reporter comforts her using
his words first, but smelly tongue later. Brenda sees this and leaves the party in a
jealous rage. Meanwhile, the Guard investigates Professor's office to ensure he's innocent,
but then slips on a pool of blood on the floor. At this time, Reporter tells Park
to end his party early, so Park stops the party and asks everybody to listen to Reporter.
He tells them about a killer on campus, but Park taunts him instead. He suggests that Reporter
is the killer, and he's killing people, so his name will be known in the media as a journalist.
Reporter diverts his embarrassment, and tells Nat to wait while he calls for help.
Meanwhile, D J excuses herself from the party, and returns to the radio station. A little later,
Park receives an anonymous call that he tracks within his house. So Park taunts the caller
that maybe it's the babysitter's urban legend, where the babysitter gets the same phone call,
and suspects that it's coming from the room where she kept the children asleep.
However, the caller informs him that it's the urban legend about the old lady,
who dries her wet dog in the microwave. Park rushes to his kitchen, and finds the microwave
full of blood and meat from his dead dog. Park runs to a nearby bathroom to throw off,
when the killer suddenly drowns him in the bowl. Shortly after, Park wakes up tied, so the killer
pours pop rocks and liquid down his throat, until he vomits blood and stops moving.
While Nat tries to contact Reporter, the killer murders D J's assistant, before chasing her around
the building with an ax. Nat hears D J's screams for help over the radio; but no one pays attention
as they believe it's a record. So she runs to the station to help D J; but it's too late as
the killer corners D J. Nat can only scream in a chicken voice, as the killer repeatedly
swings its ax to murder D J. the Guard hears D J's last broadcast, and decides to hunt down
the killer despite the strong thunderstorm. Nat runs into Reporter outside her dorm room, and
becomes suspicious of his whereabouts when D J is killed. She ignores that, and finds Brenda looking
for them. Nat informs her about D J's death; but Reporter takes them into his car to drive to town,
as the phones on the campus are cut off. They stop at a nearby gas station, where Reporter
exits the vehicle to call the police. Brenda and Nat make up, when they smell a
strange odor from the back. They check the trunk, and discover the mangled body of Professor. They
run away in fear, and split up in the woods. Nat quickly returns to the road, where she is picked
up by the janitor, but the killer appears in a car, and chases them until their vehicle loses
control and crashes into the cornfield. The janitor is dead after hitting his head,
while Nat returns to the campus, and tries to contact the police. However, she hears screams
from the Stanley Building, where there's a light on the third floor. She breaks in, only to find
the dead bodies of Park, the Dean, and Nerd. She also finds Brenda lying in a bed, causing her
to break down as her friend dies. However, Brenda gets up and knocks Nat unconscious. Moments later,
Nat finds herself tied to the bed, with the killer finally removing the hood,
revealing it to be Brenda. Brenda reveals that the driver killed by
Nat and Mich because of their practical joke is actually her boyfriend. Brenda befriended
Nat to torment her with these urban legends to get revenge. She also confesses to planting
Professor's body in Reporter's car trunk, in order to put the blame on him after she's
done. So Brenda stabs her stomach to kill her with another urban legend, the "kidney heist," when the
Guard suddenly arrives to rescue Nat. However, Brenda attacks the Guard with a hidden knife,
steals the gun away, and points it at Nat. Just then, Reporter appears, applauding Brenda for
her revenge plan, and offers to be a part of it for his career. However, he fails to fool Brenda;
so she holds them at gunpoint. Fortunately, the Guard shoots Brenda before she can kill
either of them. After this, Nat steals the gun from Brenda and hits her with it,
causing her to be thrown out the window. Reporter and Nat drive to get help, when Brenda
appears from the backseat and attacks them with an ax. They struggle as they fight Brenda; so
Reporter smashes the car into a guardrail, causing Brenda to smash through the windshield, and fall
off the bridge into a river far below. Sometime later, at a different university,
a group of college students at a different university discusses the recent Pendleton
Massacre and the urban legends. The film ends with one of the students volunteering to tell
the story right, revealing the still-alive Brenda with a different haircut.
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