6) Urban Legend (1998)
This one again falls under the heading of “great idea, bad film.”
With the Scream franchise in full swing, and a new era of slasher-horror emerging with the likes of I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1998’s Urban Legend seemed perfect for the time. A series of grisly murders exacted on college students taking various urban legends as inspiration? Sounds great. Well, yes, but Urban Legend riffed just a little too much on those “other” films to leave a finished feature that was as familiar and predictable as it was tedious.
With the extent that social media now controls our lives, the time seems right for an update of the story. Perhaps a Blumhouse production would work best; a young director with a limited budget that ensures an emphasis on storytelling?
One thing is for certain, this was a film that slipped under the radar at the time of release and is now no more than an urban legend itself, so there’s pretty much no-one to offend with this one.