Luckily, Pendleton College has a gorgeous investigative journalist named Paul (Jared Leto). Plus, Professor Wexler has tenure, so thereвЂ™s no way heвЂ™d jeopardize that. ItвЂ™s eerie how well Freddy plays a seemingly innocent professor.ДЄt times, the coeds fear that Professor Wex is the killer, but Robert Englund would be too on the nose. Freddy Krueger looks a bit odd in a sweater vest, without knives for hands. The group takes the professorвЂ™s urban mythologies courseВ and notice the kills are following the legends from his syllabus. Being Robert Englund, he does an excellent job playing Professor Wexler, the sole survivor of the Stanley Hall Massacre. So a slasher with the Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm St) was just too thrilling. My friends and I were/are obsessed with Wes Craven. I remember being so stoked to see Urban Legend. Paula Cole reminded me of being sixteen, listening to Brandy, вЂN Sync, 2Pac, Elton John, Lisa Loeb, 98 Degrees, Big Pun, and Third Eye Blind. The soundtrack goes from Stabbing Westward to Paula Cole while flannel-clad coeds try to solve the campus mystery. And like most 90вЂ™s slashers, Urban Legend has creative kill scenes and a sick soundtrack. Much like Scream, the killer could be anyone in the squad, male or female, motive or not. The group includes Paul (Jared Leto), Natalie ( Alicia Witt), Brenda ( Rebecca Gayheart), Parker ( Michael Rosenbaum), Damon ( Joshua Jackson), Sasha (Tara Reid) and Michelle ( Natasha Gregson Wagner). Twenty-five years later, we meet the group of students who will finally uncover the truth about the Stanley Hall massacre, even if it kills them. Deans may hide PendletonвЂ™s secrets, but they wonвЂ™t stay secrets for long.

The film makes an interesting point about college deans who expunge any evidence of tragedy, no matter how it affects the campus. Known as the Stanley Hall Massacre, the town and Pendleton College, buried news of the tragedy. The film takes place in a sleepy New England college town, 25 years after a deranged psychology professor brutally murdered six of his students. The underlying mythology, the very structure of horror, is the killerвЂ™s motive. The filmвЂ™s origin is the history of urban legends: the babysitter getting a threatening call from inside the house, the guy in the backseat with an axe, and so on.

Urban Legend is a metaslasher in its own right, and as the title suggests, it follows the origins of horror, the cautionary tales we tell around crackling Wi-Fi. And the Final Girl in this flick is insane-and a complete shock. A good slasher pays homage to the origins of horror. Although there are several nods to Scream, thatвЂ™s one of the reasons I love this film. Many thought that it ripped off Scream too much, with its use of metahorror (characters know theyвЂ™re in a horror story). After its release, it got mixed reviews from slasher die-hards. This college gore-fest was written by Silvio Horta and directed by Jamie Blanks, both largely unknown. Starring Jared Leto and Tara Reid, this slasher turned the genre on its head, much like Scream (1996). Urban Legend came out in 1998, in the heyday of 90вЂ™s slashers.

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