Urban Legends: Final Cut
Directed by:
John OttmanCinematography:
Brian PearsonComposer:
John OttmanCast:
Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Joey Lawrence, Anson Mount, Eva Mendes, Anthony Anderson, Marco Hofschneider, Michael Bacall (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
At the renowned film school Alpine University, one senior student is awarded the esteemed Hitchcock Award for the best thesis film each year. A down-to-earth documentary film student Amy Mayfield wants to take a crack at the Hitchcock. During a chance meeting with the new campus security guard Reese, Amy is inspired by the story of an urban legend at Reese's former place of employment, Pendleton University. Deciding to break away from documentaries, Amy's thesis film will be a work of fiction about urban legends. After writing the script, story boarding the shots and casting her actors, Amy and her crew prepare to roll camera. When Amy's film crew starts falling prey to fatal "accidents," she questions where fiction ends and truth begins. When all the dots start to connect back to her, she realizes she must unmask the killer before she becomes an urban legend. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (2)
The directorial debut of John Ottman, editor of Bryan Singer’s early films (The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil), for which he also composed the music. And it’s a horrible directorial debut. Ottman went into this project with the intention of making “something different, something Hitchcockian” and today he claims that he “had to adapt it for a teenage audience in the end.” We could get over the fact that it’s a rip-off of Scream and The Faculty, but why does it have to be so awfully stupid?
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Ottman can compose perfect music, but please, all responsible people, never let him touch a camera again, because then we might witness something similarly repulsive as here. Horror movies, in which characters make fun of horrors, work in the case of Scream (which is shamelessly copied here along with its first installment), but not at all here. Thanks to unsuccessful attempts at horror, the plot becomes perfectly foolish, and not even a few (then still unknown) likeable TV faces can save the situation.
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