Urban Legends: Final Cut

"Legends never die."

2000 1h 38m EN

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4.9

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12%

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4.4

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★4.9TMDB · 538🥫12%Rotten Tomatoes●16Metacritic★4.4IMDB · 19,750

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Synopsis

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The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect.

“Legends never die.”

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Cast

Jennifer Morrison
Amy Mayfield
Matthew Davis
Travis / Trevor
Hart Bochner
Professor Solomon
Joey Lawrence
Graham
Anson Mount
Toby
Anthony Anderson
Stan
Eva Mendes
Vanessa
Michael Bacall
Dirk

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: John Ottman
Writers: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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26 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Urban Legend Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by John Ottman, shot by Brian Pearson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Damon Intrabartolo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor John Ottman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis and Hart Bochner carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Legends never die.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0192731 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

John Ottman directs. Brian Pearson behind the camera. Damon Intrabartolo scores. John Ottman cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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126 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Urban Legend Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by John Ottman, shot by Brian Pearson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Damon Intrabartolo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor John Ottman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis and Hart Bochner carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Legends never die.".
8IMDB entry: tt0192731 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 11 themes, including "movie business", "college", "snuff", "sequel".
10Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Brian Pearson
Original score: Damon Intrabartolo
Editing: John Ottman
Production design: Mark Zuelzke
Costume design: Trysha Bakker
Makeup / hair: Irene Kent
VFX supervisor: Mark Savela
Sound: David E. Fluhr
Stunt coordinator: Pat Banta
Runtime: 98 min · 1h 38m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $14,000,000
Box office: $38,574,362
Return: 276% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes: 12% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 16/100
IMDB rating: 4.4/10 · 19,750 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations total

Part of

Urban Legend Collection

These films revolve around urban legends, featuring sinister murders, deadly spirits, and ominous conjurations, typically set in educational institutions like college campuses and high schools. The stories involve protagonists struggling against evil forces to avert deadly phenomena. Antagonists, often students familiar with the legends, use them as templates for murder or to evade detection. The films appeal to thriller and horror fans, with suspenseful and frightening elements. Common tropes include the "final girl" protagonist, the revelation of urban legend truths, and ominous atmospheric cues. These films, though entertaining, may be intense for sensitive viewers. Overall, the collection offers a darkly thrilling exploration of urban legends and their deadly consequences, blending horror and suspense to captivate audiences.

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slayrrr6662017-03-18
★ 8/10
Attempting to finish film school, a director doing her film about a serial killer killing his victims on urban legends starts to realize that a serial killer is running around behind the scenes killing off the crew, and must stop the madman before killing off everyone on the film. This here was a pretty surprising entry. One of the things it does well is that it really features a lot of suspenseful work at times as this makes a hard time of determining if what's being seen is real or just being shot for the movie. It plays the movie-within-a-movie trick to nice effect, since it features enough to make hard to distinguish one from the other including it's wonderful opening sequence that takes a while before realizing after the fact it's been faked, a sequence where the assembled cast watch the dailies only for a strange cut-shot to play where one of the cast is viciously stalked and killed is screened where all but one thinking it to be shot for the film but the other positive that it's real and a later scene where a murder done during the recording of a scream-test loud enough to drown out the victim's own being great scenes. Even going away from that formula, there’s some rather fun stalking here from the bathroom chase featuring the woman trying to escape from the killer out into the alleyway or a thrilling chase through the recording studio and out into the surrounding countryside and pool while an attack at a carnival ride hidden by the darkness and fog comes off rather nice as well. The final confrontation in the movie-set graveyard setting is just fun, being creepy, exciting and all-around a blast with the true revelation and the different twists featured throughout make for a nice time here. The last big feature here is a really nice and healthy mix amongst the kills, which along with the mask worn are the film's rather good parts. This one here only has a few flaws to it. The main one here is that the main explanation for the killing has a lot of ways for how to interpret it, and it feels just too clumsy and unrealistic to be considered as believable. The fact that the violence is toned down from anything that it should have, since, for all the creativity displayed in the kills, it isn't very bloody and with a couple of kills that could've been in here. These are the same thing that really should've fixed by taking more of those and making them more bloody. It would've taken out a mild flaw in the film rather simply. The last flaw in here is the film's maddening ability to switch between the film shoot and the real world. It's fun at times, but there's also the fact that the film tries to be clever with changing around the two and it gets a little harder to defend the longer they go on. These here are the film's flaws. Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and a sex scene.

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