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Basically, Urban Legend didn't stand out against it's competitors, it has every cliché in the book. Not realizing the terror has just begun to scare her and her friends even more. Realizing both Damon's death and Michelle's murder closely resemble famous urban legends, Natalie goes to the library to read up on urban legends. The next day, no one believes Natalie's story due to Damon's penchant for pranks and tricks. He then is hung from a tree in a noose with the rope attached to the bumper of his car. Upset, Damon goes into the woods to urinate but is attacked by the killer. Damon, playing on Natalie's vulnerability, tries to make a move on her but she rejects him. Later that night after going into a secluded area of woods to talk, Natalie reveals to Damon that she knew Michelle, but they hadn't spoken in years. The next day, the front page of the campus newspaper has an article about Michelle Mancini's murder written by Paul but the papers are quickly confiscated by school officials. Still, the story sticks in their minds, especially for Natalie, and Brenda. Paul, a school paper journalist thinks the story is bogus. According to the story, in 1973, an abnormal psychology teacher went crazy and killed all the students living in an on-campus residence hall.
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The same night, on campus, a group of friends listens to Parker Riley tell an old story about one of the campus halls, Stanley Hall. There's someone in the back seat as Michelle drives, a figure in a dark coat with a fur trim around the hood sits up in the back seat and, with a swift blow from its axe, decapitates Michelle. The film begins on a dark and stormy night as college student Michelle Mancini realizes she is near empty while driving in her car. But we didn't stop at that, we were now presented with Urban Legend. After that, every teen slasher film was released: the Scream sequels, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, etc.
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So naturally all the screen writers who were a bit scared to present their ideas on the table, thanks to Kevin Williamson, the clever writer of Scream and Dawson's Creek. Let's face it, after the mega success of Scream which opened the doors once again after Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm Street, we needed a new classic.
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