POST#10: Urban Legends: Urban Legends in Movies

Recently, there are now some movies that were related to Urban Legends. It is funny that even though Urban Legends is not that popular among us, there are still some people who manage to tell those legends, and some even made them into a video, and into a movie. One of its example is the Urban Legends Series.

Urban Legend is a 1998 horror film which is about a group of college students, where they encountered murders and bizarre deaths inside the campus that were connected about Urban Legends and also had conversations and explanations about some certain legends.

The movie revolves around a group who were talking about an urban legend called “Stanley Hall Massacre” where a psycho professor killed students at a closed down dorm on campus. As the movie goes on, each person on the group get killed, one-by-one; and all of the murder are somehow connected to Urban Legends.

Some Urban Legends that were used and mentioned on the movie were:

• Aspirin mistaken for birth control pills

- Where the daughter used her mother’s birth control pills and replacing it with Aspirin.

- It was mentioned by the caller in Sasha’s radio show.

• The Promiscuous Cheerleader

- It is about a cheerleader who promised to have an oral sex with the school’s football team if they won the game. And after doing her promise, she got sick and got taken on a hospital and found a gallon of semen inside her stomach.

- It was mentioned by the caller in Sasha’s radio show.

• The Killer in the Backseat

- The Legend is about a woman who got her car broken and asked for assistance, and while paying her bills,

 she was warned about an armed and dangerous looking man who sneaked on the back seat of her car.

- It happened to Michelle, Natalie’s friend on the first part of the movie.

• Rock Candy and Soda

- A kid ate 6 packs of Pop Rock at a party, and then drank a soda afterwards. As the two substances combined inside his stomach, it exploded and he died horribly.

- It happened to Parker, where he died as he was forced to eat the Pop Rocks and Soda with bathroom chemicals

• Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?

- It is about a two roommates where the other girl was murdered as her room mate entered to get her things without knowing that her friend was being murdered. The day after that night, as she entered the room, she saw her roommate, dead, with a message on the wall, written with her roommate's blood that says "Aren't you glad you didn't turn off the light?"

- It happened to her goth friend, Tosh, where she thought that she was having sex with the guy she met online, but in reality, she was being murdered.

Another movie is Urban Legends: Final Cut, which was a 2000 movie and a sequel of Urban Legend. It was

all about a group of students who were preparing for their thesis and films for the Hitchcock Award. The group encountered different murders that were also connected to Urban Legends. As the story goes no, the heroine eventually unravels the mystery about the murder.

The Urban Legends that were used on the movie were:

• The Kidney Heist

- It is about drugged travelers who will be waking up in an ice-filled bath tub, discovering that their kidney has been taken away.

- It happened to Lisa, where she was drugged and woke up, finding herself in a tub full of ice, and found out that her kidney is removed.

• Scream Session Rape

- A woman was raped during a campus midnight scream session to relieve their stress, but they didn’t hear her screams because her voice got unnoticed.

- It happened to Simon where he was attacked by the killer during the scream.

• Taco Bell/Cockroach eggs on envelopes

- There was a girl who had a swelling jaw and soon discovered that there are cockroach’s eggs that she got while eating a Taco or from licking envelopes.

- Sandra tells a story of a burrito that contains roach’s eggs, which is then hatched inside of the girl’s nose.

And the third one is Urban Legends: Bloody Mary

It is about a girl named Samantha Owens, that was blacklisted by the football players with her friends after doing an article about them, so they wasn’t able to go to the party. Samantha tells her friends an urban legend about the two friends of Mary Banner were drugged by their prom dates and she tried to escape it, unfortunately, she was killed and hid her body in a trunk of the school’s basement. Samantha tried to speak to “Bloody Mary” by calling her name three times. Along the night, the three girls were kidnapped by the football players as a prank and Samantha had visions about Bloody Mary. After her schoolmates was killed, she went to a person who was also abused before, and found out that the victims were the descendants of the three football players who killed Mary, and as for Mary is seeking for revenge.

Obviously, the Urban Legend that was used in the movie was “Bloody Mary”; however, with a different story. On the Movie, Mary was killed by three men and put in the school’s basement, which is more modern than the original legend which is a bit old.

On the other hand, one example of Urban Legends that was used in the movie is:

• The Tanning Bed

- Where a woman who wanted to look her very best that she had lots of tanning session that he burnt herself.

- This happened to roger where he was burnt on a sun bed.

And other Urban Legends that has happened on previous movies like the Kidney Heist, Humans can lick too, and the Pop rock and Soda.

There are still several movies that are related to different kinds of Urban Legends. Some people might find it interesting because of on how the murderers kill their victims in a variety way, and some with a twist; not like the other that they kill their victims in common ways.