Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

THE GANG GETS META! This week the bummer boys round out their two part early 2000s slasher revival retrospective with the hilariously wonderful and awful horror movie sequel URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT! can a movie honestly be critiqued when it has already critiqued itself? Why is the killer wearing a fencing mask? For goodness sake is bad acting actually bad when its so bad its good? IS SCOTT DERICKSON A GENIUS? All this and more on this week's episode of BUMMER HOUSE! Strap in and take a steam-powered roller coaster ride with the two dim whits.

 

Urban Legends: Final Cut (also known as Urban Legends 2: Final Cut or simply Urban Legend 2) is a 2000 slasher film directed by John Ottman in his directorial debut, and starring Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Joseph Lawrence, Anthony Anderson, and Loretta Devine. In addition to directing, Ottman also edited the film and composed its score. A sequel to Urban Legend (1998), it is the second installment in the Urban Legend film series. It follows a film student being stalked by a serial killer in a fencing mask, who begins murdering the crew members of her thesis film about urban legends.

Filmed in late 1999, Urban Legends: Final Cut was released in the United States on September 22, 2000 by Columbia Pictures. Although it made only roughly half of its predecessor's gross, it was still successful, grossing $38.6 million on a budget of $14 million. The film was universally panned by critics upon release, and was followed by the direct-to-video sequel Urban Legends: Bloody Mary in 2005.