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Urban Legend (1998) - 18 corrections

starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto (add more)

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry Paul complains after the dean kicks him off the paper about how he won't be able to become a writer without a body of work, and needs to be writing on the paper to get that. In the party scene, the man whose dog is murdered gives the speech about how Paul just wants to take advantage of a couple of deaths, and that Paul is about to graduate in a few weeks and has not written anything real yet. If Paul was about to graduate in three weeks he would have enough articles and being kicked off the paper is not really a punishment. [Having enough writing to graduate, and having enough writing to get a job are entirely different things. I've written thousands of pages in college, but do not have a job writing, because I was not published for the general public.]
Entry Natalie's roommate Tosh is strangled to death, and then her wrists are slashed. Because she is a goth the school officials assume she committed suicide by slitting her wrists. However, it's quite easy to tell if someone's been strangled - they couldn't have just dismissed it as suicide and be done with it. [The reason her wrists were slit was to make it appear like a suicide. Most of the bruising associated with strangling doesn't show up immediately, sometimes even days later during autopsy. By finding a body with the wrists slit, they would not have done an autopsy, as they believed no foul-play had been committed. Also, even if they noticed the slight, if any, bruising around the neck, her alleged suicide was the primary cause of death, and might have been overlooked.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
Entry At the very end of the movie when the new kids are telling the story, they make a sarcastic comment about the killer being the girl from the Noxzema commercials. The girl who played the killer, Rebecca Gayheart, really was the girl from the Noxzema commercials. [They don't say the girl from the Noxzema commercials, they say the girl from that commercial, could have been talking about any commercial.]
Entry Sasha says Michelle was listening to her show when she died, but Michelle is actually listening to a tape when she's killed. Unless Brenda stopped to take the tape out (unlikely), this would still have been in when the car was found. [This isn't an actual mistake: Sasha was repeating some gossip that she heard, and has no bearing on the film itself.]
Entry The killer's face is masked by the parka hood, but when we find out it is Brenda, the hood no longer hides her face. The hood should still make her face disappear because it was masking the face to everyone, not just the audience. [Not quite. If you watch when The main girl and the janitor are in the car when the killer is trying to push them off the road, when the killer is driving next to them there is a split second where it shows that the killer appears to have a balaclava on. Who's to say she just didnt take it off when she wanted to finally be unmasked ?]
Entry Not really a mistake, just something that bothers me. Why would you cut someone's head off while they are driving fast? Since the decapitation kills the driver, and the murderer is in the backseat where she cannot control the SUV, wouldn't this cause the SUV to crash, possibly killing the murderer as well? By just looking at how fast the SUV was going when the girl was beheaded you'd think it would at least hit a tree or go over an embankment. [Actually the driver hits the brakes when she notices the figure in the back seat. So the car stopped moving.]
Entry How exactly was Brenda going to frame Professor Wexler for the murders? Unless she somehow managed to convince the police that he committed suicide by cutting himself open with an axe then stuffed himself into Paul's trunk, it seems fairly unlikely. [She probably was going to make out that he fled the campus when he realised he was going to get caught, and would dump the body somewhere he would not be found.]
Entry The Dean and Reese interview Natalie about her room mate's death and advise Natalie that it was suicide as there was "no evidence of foul play." This is ridiculous as it would not be up to them. Local law enforcement would have jurisdiction and utilize a forensics team to determine what happened. The FBI would probably also be involved given the campus history. The Dean and campus Security Guard would have no say whatsoever regarding case particulars. [They have no bearing on the outcome of the case and the forensic investigation would still go on. The dean and Reese were just trying to make Natalie feel safer and stop worrying about her roomate's death.]
Entry When Paul and Natalie are looking for information on the campus massacre they discover the back issues of the campus paper for that year are missing and wonder what to do next. What was wrong with the Internet? There would certainly be SOMETHING about the campus massacre that would have helped. [This is character's mistaken judgement, not a movie mistake.]
Corrected by Guy Brigman
Entry At the end where the killer cuts Natalie's stomach open, she screams through the choker. Later, she shows no signs of pain or even the wound. [This kind of entry was already corrected before. Paul walks into the room, after Reese is stabbed, and Natalie unties herself and gets up. When she gets up, look at the bottom of the screen, and you'll see some blood on Natalie's stomach. Also, since Reese is close to death, and Brenda threatens to shoot someone, Natalie probably wont be thinking about her cut.]
Entry When Brenda is going to cut out one of Natalie's vital organs, she cuts her stomach with a scalpel. Obviously, this would hurt a lot, but Natalie nor anyone else dresses the wound and there is no sign of blood. [When Paul walks in after Reese is stabbed, Natalie unties herself and gets up, look at the bottom of the screen, there IS some blood on Natalie's stomach. Also, since Brenda has a loaded gun, and she's about to shoot Natalie and/or Paul, Natalie's cut would be the least of her worries.]
Entry Right before the first murder, the woman is at a gas station that is completely empty except for the scary attendant. After she is killed, it is said on the news that the police are looking for the attendant at the gas station where she was last seen. She and the attendant were the only ones at the gas station, so if they haven't talked to him, no one else could have seen her there and they'd have no idea that that's where she was. [When she pulls out, her car pulls out the gas line. It's possible that the cops noticed her gas tank-thing was open, and figured out she was at gas station.]
Entry Brenda weighs about 120 pounds. How is she able so often through the film to overpower men almost twice her size, hang them from trees (Damon's death) and then drag the bodies up to the top floor of an abandoned building? All without any help. Surely someone would notice a waif-like girl trying to drag a 200 pound body through the campus. When you are crazy then you suddenly have superhuman strength? [Actually, yes. People on an adrenaline high can accomplish physical tasks that would otherwise be impossible. However, there's also the fact that Brenda has spent years planning this revenge - presumably she built up her muscles over that time. Just because she's not bulging doesn't mean she isn't strong.]
Entry The killer wears a hooded parka to mask his/her identity.  Oddly enough, even though the movie takes place in April and it seems to be warm weather, EVERYONE in this town owns the same hooded parka! In one bizarre scene, a menacing figure in the hooded parka and high leather boots slips off the jacket, revealing herself to be a girl in a bathing suit going for a swim!  Who wears a parka to go for a swim? [Several parts of this mistake are wrong. For one thing, it is not "warm weather", there are two rain storms in the few days the film covers. Secondly, the girl at the pool has a blue t-shirt on, not a bathing suit. Finally, since it was wet weather, is it all that unlikely that people are carrying warm jackets around with them (bear in mind that no one but the killer and swimming pool girl actually wear theirs)? The similarities between the coats is strange, but hardly a mistake in itself. Maybe they were on sale.]
Entry Can some please explain to me why, despite all the deaths occurring at the New England college, there was NOT ONE POLICEMAN EVER PRESENT at the school? [In my experience at a small New England college (not the one in the movie), they're terrified of bad publicity. Local law enforcement wouldn't get involved unless the college asked them too, and then they would act reluctantly. Granted, there was no "series of murders" at my school, but officials worked very hard to cover up an attempted murder.]
Entry When Sasha is running away from the killer she falls to the bottom of the stairs, leaving her in the lobby. We later see Natalie run in through an entrance in the lobby, so why didn't Sasha run out this way instead of going into the lift and back upstairs into the building? [She didn't run out that front door for the same reason why people always seem to run upstairs. They are scared and not thinking straight. Not a mistake, she is just dumb or scared.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
Entry Why did Brenda kill Michelle straight away, the one who killed her boyfriend, while she mentally and physically tortures Natalie, who was just a passenger in the car? [Maybe in her convoluted mind, she blamed Natalie more. Or she could have had easier access to Brenda to kill her. Or she figured it would be fun to torture someone who she had managed to befriend and then therefore, she wouldn't be a suspect. This type of logic isn't a mistake.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
Entry When Natalie and Paul go into the professor's office and they go into his special props room. Natalie sees the axe and tells Paul to look. Then they both think that the professor is the killer. How would they know the killer used an axe if they were not at the first murder scene and the murderer didn't use an axe when killing Damon? [It was publicised that the first victim was decapitated with an axe. I believe one of the other characters mentions it right after the murder.]

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