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Urban Legend
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5068
- IMDb #5132
- Rotten Tomatoes #4544
- Metacritic #4152
- Letterboxd #4391
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4686
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4646
- Metacritic Critics #4565
- Metacritic Audience #2881
- Criticker #3897
- Douban #2255
- Kinopoisk #3573
- AlloCiné #5134
- Trakt #4564
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 23, highest is Google on 82. Critics average 33, everyone else 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A series of gruesome murders rocks a university campus. A skeptical student begins to notice that each killing mirrors a well-known urban legend. As her friends become victims, she realizes that a cunning killer is using these modern myths as a blueprint for murder. She must uncover the perpetrator's identity before she becomes the subject of the final, deadly story.
Details
- Director
- Jamie Blanks
- Writer
- Silvio Horta
- Released
- 25 September 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $14.0M
- Box office
- $72.5M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (27) →
Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Best Actress 1999 | Best Actress | Alicia Witt | Nominee |
| Best Original Score – Horror/Thriller 1998 | Best Original Score – Horror/Thriller | Christopher Young | Winner |
| Best Performance by Younger Actor 1998 | Best Performance by Younger Actor | Alicia Witt | Nominee |
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3 awards — Urban Legend
×| Best Original Score – Horror/Thriller | Christopher Young | Winner |
| Best Actress | Alicia Witt | Nominee |
| Best Performance by Younger Actor | Alicia Witt | Nominee |