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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, September 20, 2000
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An aspiring young filmmaker named Amy (Jennifer Morrison) is making a movie about a college campus serial killer who attacks students by acting out urban legends. (Gee, wasn't that movie already made?)
A campus building is named for Orson Welles, and posters for Touch of Eulil and The Rocky Horror Picture Show adorn the walls, just to make sure you're aware that you've walked into a horror flick.
It takes place at an unnamed film school ("The greatest film school that ever existed," the dean proclaims) that looks more like a biomedical research center, where it's always cloudy, foggy and cold.
Urban Legends: final Cut makes the original Urban Legends look like an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
We can only hope that this truly is the final cut.
Urban Legends: Final Cut, a Columbia Pictures release, is rated R for violence, language and some sexuality. Running time: 1 hour, 38 minutes.
This formulaic, unfocused film is supposed to be a sequel, but it doesn't pick up where the first film ended. And for those of you itching to know, it never explains what happened to our heroes who survived the original college campus killing spree.
Urban Legends should disappear into the night
This time, though, the killer wears a fencing mask, presumably because a hockey mask was already taken for the Friday the 13th series.
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But all the actors and crew members end up being killed the same way as the characters in Amy's film. (Gee, wasn't that movie already made, too? Three times?)
Come to think of it, the movie isn't even about urban legends. It's more a rip-off of the Scream series, which is hackneved itself.
It has none of the up-and-coming young stars of the first film such as Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Joshua Jackson or Tara Reid. The big-name talent here is Joey Lawrence, formerly of the TV shows "Blossom" and "Brotherly Love," who now goes by Joseph Lawrence. Perhaps he saw that using a more grown-up name did wonders for Rick Schroder's career and hopes to do the same.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Subway stations
2 Cable stn.
3 Bloke
4 Cognizant
5 Jubilant gaiety
6 Healthy
7 Gambler's card game
8 Lead a nomadic life
9 Gymmast Korbut
10 Newsreader's aid
11 Estrange
12 Consumers
12 Australian metropolis
12 Howdy-dos
13 Simpson street
13 Little legumes
13 Element
13 _Miguel, CA
13 100% correct
13 _Cruces, NM
13 In front
13 Give a hand
13 Wapiti
13 Obtained
13 Wraparound skirn
13 Fatter than fat
13 Mythological man
13 Sherman or Leno, e.g.
14 Opposed to
15 Moreno or Eps
15 Plots of land
16 Mob melee
16 Donned
16 Santiago's country
17 Blocker and Duryea
18 Vein of minerals
18 Singer Gorme
DOWN
1 Tree fluid
2 A pair
3 Pint
DOWN
1 Tree fluid
2 A pair
3 Ridge, TN
4 False front
5 Tranquil
6 White heron
7 Gradient
8 Teardrop-shape
fruit
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10 Uses an axe
11 Horse leaders
12 Nation on the Mediterranean
13 Former
14 Oceanfront PM
21 Deposit
22 Nine sisters of mythology
23 Horned viper
24 Caustic solution
25 Lupino or Tarbex
28 Pinned down
29 Cool down
33 "Silver" author Levin
38 Burns wildly
37 Greek letter
38 Like a worn LP
39 Workout wear
40 Land of Ghegs
Solutions to Tuesday's crossword
44 Actor Chaney
45 Picnic pest
46 Org. of Love
47 Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
48 Frenchization
25 Comic bios
30 Oscar, e.g.
54 Strikes to strikeout
55 Wardel to wardell
57 "Typee" typee
61 Make free (cl)
62 Actor Wallach
63 Comprehend
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