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Urban Legend is a 1998 mystery horror thriller film, directed by Jamie Blanks, starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto and Rebecca Gayheart.
- 81 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
- posts span Mar 18, 2017 to Oct 30, 2026
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60 of 96 · most liked firstAlternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Urban Legend (1998) By Alt Fiction
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Of The Day... Urban Legend (1998) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favourite example of a website from a movie? I enjoy this one from Urban Legend (1998).
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a horror movie title that begins with the letter “U” or “V” 🎥 U is for… ‘Urban Legend’ 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite horror film from each year of the 1990’s: 1990: IT 1991: Cape Fear 1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1993: Leprechan 1994: New Nightmare 1995: Tales from the Hood 1996: The Craft 1997: I Know What You Did Last Summer 1998: Urban Legend 1999: Sixth Sense #Filmsky #Moviesky #Horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Revisited URBAN LEGEND tonight and could not get over the fact that Tara Reid is, at one point in the film, dressed EXACTLY like the Tiffany doll from BRIDE OF CHUCKY. Two blonde icons of 1998.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched the movie Urban Legend for the first time, was like oh yeah I forgot about Alicia Witt and now I know these things
neutral · AI labelView post →Spell your name with horror movie titles J - Jennifer's Body O - Oculus S - Suspira H - Happy Death Day U - Urban Legend A - An American Werewolf in London
neutral · AI labelView post →Urban Legend was released in theaters on this day (28 years ago). I remember watching this movie on TV when I was little. This movie has a wonderful cast and a cool director who’s no longer with us. #Filmsky #Horrorsky #September 🎥 🩸
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching or rather rewatching Urban Legend. This is such a fun movie!! 😃😃🖤 #MutantFam #HorrorCommunity #HorrorSky
positive · AI labelView post →RIP Jamie Blanks. He was one of my favorite slasher film directors from the post Scream boom and I've been glad to see both Urban Legend and Valentine get reappraised.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's a horror movie that got you into horror? Urban Legend will always be my number one. I was always super interested in folklore, fairy tales, and spoken traditions. So naturally, this was one of the first horror films I saw. I LIVE for Rebecca Gayhearts' performance and monologue at the end.
positive · AI labelView post →I gave up trick-or-treating and went to the movies where I bought myself a ticket to an R-rated film without an ID and watched a late showing of URBAN LEGEND instead so I'm pretty certain that Halloween was my origin story.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you heard the one about the pop rocks and soda? We’re talking URBAN LEGEND on the NEW episode of the Nightmare on Film Street horror movie podcast! Listen for FREE on Apple Pods, Spotify, or wherever podcasts lurk. NOFSPODCAST.COM/GO
neutral · AI labelView post →Very sad to hear about the passing of director Jamie Blanks. URBAN LEGEND remains one of my favourite post-SCREAM slashers. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
positive · AI labelView post →Horror movie Urban Legend that could potentially be all or partly made up about the movie Flower of Flesh and Blood from the Guinea Pig series
neutral · AI labelView post →Urban Legend (Film / DVD: 1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night at Urban Legend I got to ask what may be my favorite trivia question ever: "What actor from this movie is such a dick that he pretended not to even be in it when interviewed a couple years later?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching Urban Legend… I only vaguely remember watching this when it came out, but it’s much better than I remember it being. This opening scene is fuuuuun!
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 25th anniversary to one of my favorite '90s slashers: URBAN LEGEND. In memory of my father, I once wrote about this movie at @bloodydisgusting.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →Post a Horror Movie title that begins with the letter “U” 🎥 U is for Urban Legend.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good Terror Tuesday evening, #MutantFam and #HorrorFam! I am now watching/rewatching Urban Legend (1998), along with The Gang Does Giallo crew, and this is my second time watching this movie. 🎃👻🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡👻🎃 #Horror365Challenge: #171/365 #GangDoesGiallo
neutral · AI labelView post →Is it an unpopular opinion to love Urban Legend? #horrormovies
positive · AI labelView post →Daily Brad Dourif character! 13. An uncredited cameo as Michael McDonnell, gas station attendant, in Urban Legend. The opening scene with the Brad Dourif misdirect is far and away the best bit of the film, and he is freaking heartbreaking. “SOMEONE’S IN THE BACK….SEEEAAAT!!!”
neutral · AI labelView post →I like Urban Legend 2 a lot but back in 2000 I read a negative review that went "Remember the urban legend about the guy in the fencing mask killing film students? Yeah me neither." and I howled like a loon.
neutral · AI labelView post →TOMORROW on FFBMN, it’s everyone’s 2nd favorite Canadian in control, @alexburns.bsky.social and his movie pick is Urban Legend! Join us FRIDAY 9 pm EST at TUBI for the live watchparty and use our tag #FFBMovienight! See ya then!
neutral · AI labelView post →A horror movie from every year I've been alive Day 28 - 1998 - Urban Legend - "This is exactly how those stories start." #moviechallenge #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →stumbled across a film from the 90's post-SCREAM slasher revival, URBAN LEGEND, and god it's a: bad b: really misogynist
negative · AI labelView post →You know what's great about "Total Eclipse of the Heart" besides everything? It's universal for movies. No one movie *owns* it the way a lot of pop songs get tied to one specific film. Last Showgirl, Strangers 2, Urban Legend, even Old School! All can claim rights to being THE movie it belongs to.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night we recorded our upcoming episode about horror movie villains... Tell us... who are some of your favorites, and why is the correct answer Brenda from Urban Legend?
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night, I watched Urban Legend with Matthew. He already knew who the killer was, but it turns out he hadn’t seen the rest of the movie. He said he enjoyed it! Considering he isn’t a fan of slashers, that’s great! It’s one of my favorites. I wish it had a healthy franchise at this point.
positive · AI labelView post →5. Urban Legend (1998) #filmsky #movies #film #horrorsky #Horror365Challenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone on the Radio in a Movie: Urban Legend (1998) #FilmSky #OctoberMovieChallenge #Day30
neutral · AI labelView post →Urban Legend|1998 www.imdb.com/title/tt0146... 📽️ #NowWatching #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #slashers ▸a college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends◂
neutral · AI labelView post →Best college lecture scene in a horror film still goes to Robert Englund in Urban Legend. #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →Our seed of inspiration, the incredible film “Urban Legend” (and his other film “Valentine”) has a solid and well earned place in my horror canon. Rest in Peace, director Jamie Blanks, your work continues to inspire!
positive · AI labelView post →I rewatched Urban Legend recently (because, if I may, Alicia Witt is starring in my fucking movie) and it is truly a delight. Silly as hell, but commits to every second.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight on @ffbmovienight.bsky.social, it’s everyone’s 2nd favorite Canadian in control, @_Alex_Burns_ and his movie pick is Urban Legend! Join us FRIDAY/Tonight 9 pm EST @tubi for the live watchparty and use our tag #FFBMovienight! See ya then!
neutral · AI labelView post →The unfortunate thing for The Curve is it came out in a year of not just horror heavy hitters, but other urban legend-based horror films. It is mostly forgettable when you remember you could be watching Urban Legend. Matthew Lillard is great though. Movie 098/100 #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days
negative · AI labelView post →📽️ slasherpalooza day 12: Urban Legend (1998) This is fun! The cast is all very pretty, there's a cute dog and 90s music is good. The kills are well executed, especially the first one: "someone's in the back seat!" I just wish it didn't remind me so much of Scream.
positive · AI labelView post →The news of Jamie Blanks passing away is a stab to the heart for many genre film fans. A singular talent, a filmmaker’s filmmaker, and friend of many, his legacy lives on. I had the privilege of projecting his first two films Urban Legend and Valentine on 35mm first run.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film #355 - Day 10.1: Urban Legend Still the best of the Scream knock-offs. Honestly, The 3rd act is great and the killer reveal slays. #31DaysOfHorror
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 30 of your favorite horror films of all time. One film per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters or covers. #FilmSky #Moviesky #horrorsky 06/30 Urban Legend
neutral · AI labelView post →#TonightsMovie is Jamie Blanks' Urban Legend, starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Englund, Loretta Devine, John Neville, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and Brad Dourif
neutral · AI labelView post →This month on #SpecterCinemaClub, we’ve been hanging around campus (mostly) discussing college #horror as decided by Arthouse Cinema patron @ohsukah.bsky.social 🎓#HorrorSky #FilmSky 👻 Listen & Subscribe: linktr.ee/spectercinema • MASTER (2022) • MIDSOMMAR (2019) • GOAT (2016) • URBAN LEGEND (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a 90s movie that starts with the letter U Urban Legend (1998) #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Well I guess with the influx of 90s horror/slasher reboot/sequels showing up, an Urban Legend one is inevitable right? 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →BUT that being said it only applied before I became a teenager and the first one was Urban Legend which is still a great slasher film
positive · AI labelView post →Share a SCARY movie title that begins with the letter "U" or "V" 🎥 U is for... Urban Legend.
neutral · AI labelView post →#TitTober2026 13. "Urban Legend" (some shoddy teen slasher film from 1998)
negative · AI labelView post →RIP. Just recently rewatched Urban Legend. Really is a fun movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Went to the movies twice and watched a movie about a movie that I didn’t like very much. Also Urban Legend was there!
negative · AI labelView post →Does Urban Legend count as a hallmark xmas movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's first movie is Urban Legend (1998) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow on the podcast watch along with us as we hit play on 1998’s URBAN LEGEND. The first slasher film we ever covered! Listen to that OG episode below! ⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →10. Silhouette 11. It's In A Book 12. Hist HORRORical 13. Thirteen 14. GHASTLY GARDEN 15. GLOOMY DREAMSCAPE 16. CRAZY CLOWN 17. Cre(e)puscular 18. Mushroom Mania 19. Magical Moth 20. Hungry Eyes 21. URBAN LEGEND 22. Creepy Cryptid 23. Movie Monster 24. Uncanny Valley
neutral · AI labelView post →Urban Legend: Final Cut The first of my 31 for 31 is the sequel to a film that I thought was sort of meh. Between the snowy film school setting and the cool looking killer Urban Legend: Final Cut is one of the last great slashers #filmsky #31for31 #halloween31for31 #spookyseason #horrorlifestyle
neutral · AI labelView post →A Urban Legend reboot is officially in the works, with Gary Dauberman set to produce the film. #UrbanLegend #GaryDauberman #HorrorMovies #Reboot #ComingSoon
neutral · AI labelView post →@horrorqueers.bsky.social Halloween watchlist Day 4: toilet School Urban Legend: Toire no Hanako-san (2007) Based on an urban legend about a ghost that haunts bathroom stalls. Not mu favorute film but it was low budget and cheesy so thats fun. #hqhalloween
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrating skipping going to the theater this weekend by watching Urban Legend, a film in which Jared Leto is kind of a piece of shit but at least the rest of the cast is awesome.
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