Return of the Living Dead 3 is a 1993 horror movie sequel directed by Brian Yuzna and starring Melinda Clarke, J. Trevor Edmond and Kent McCord. The movie begins with a guy called Curt Reynolds(Edmond) who steals a key card from his father, Col. John Reynolds(McCord) who works at a military base. He takes his girlfriend, Julie(Clarke) to see the place. They enter the facility and spy on his father who is working with others on dead bodies. they are using Trioxin gas which reanimates the corpses. They want to use them as soldiers. The problem is that they are not reliable. They want to eat brains and this keeps them from their function. Julie and Curt watch all of this. The zombie loses control and it goes wild. It bites one of the men and he turns into a zombie also. The experiment is a disaster as they shoot the reanimated corpses. Reynolds is reassigned after this. He tells Curt that they are going to leave. Curt isn't going anywhere and he and Julie ride off on his motorbike. She messes with him and he loses control of the bike and crashes. Julie is killed.
Curt brings her back to the military facility and he tries to bring her back to life using Trioxin. It seems to work. Unfortunately, a zombie has escaped also. It attacks Curt and Julie. They escape from it. Curt knows that Julie is not the same. She bites a man during a robbery at a store. Curt's father discovers that his son is on the run from the police. Julie is getting hungry. She eats a man, causing him to come back and attack the cops. The army guys catch them and they kill the zombie man. Julie and Curt run off. They end up in the sewers. Julie runs off. She ends up in the water. A man is watching her. The robbers from the store are after Julie. They end up in the sewers also. The man from the sewer meets Julie and Curt and he takes them to safety.
John goes looking for his son as some other army guy takes control of the situation. The guy from the sewer is called Riverman. He shows them his home. The robbers are following them, as are the army guys. Julie is changing. She sticks all sorts of sharp objects into her skin. She realises that is she is in pain, her craving for human brains abates. The robbers find them. They are going to kill Curt and Julie. Julie appears in her new form and she kills them all. Curt tries to stop her. Riverman is horrified. The robbers start to change. She kills Riverman. The zombie robbers are trying to get at Curt. John finds them and he sees Julie. He shoots her and she is captured. Curt visits her at the base and he sees what they have been doing to bodies. He doesn't want that to happen to Julie. She is in a cage. He lets all of the zombies out and they attack the staff. He gets bitten himself. John wants Curt to come out but he won't leave Julie. He takes her and they go into the incinerator together.
This was a pretty decent film. Compared to the previous two, it is not as good, but it's a strange one. It is a zombie love story, which is unusual. It has some good moments and it's got some fun scenes. If you are expecting something like the other two, then this will be a surprise. I think that it is worth a look though, as it is entertaining overall. I will give it a 5/10.
Urban Legends:Bloody Mary is a 2005 sequel and the third film in the Urban Legend series and is directed by Mary Lambert. It stars Kate Mara and Tina Lifford. The film begins in 1969 when three girls are drugged by three guys from the football team. They are kidnapped but one of them escapes. Her name is Mary Banner and the captain of the football team chases her before she can tell anyone. He hits her and he knocks her out. He thinks that she is dead, so he locks her in a trunk, not knowing that she was still alive. Years later, a girl called Sam(Mara) and her friends are talking about the same thing. They talk about the legend of Bloody Mary. For some reason, they decide to call up Bloody Mary herself. The next day, the three girls are missing. The football guys in school seem to know something about it. Sam returns and it turns out that she and her friends were drugged. It was the football guys who did it as a prank because Sam had written an article criticising them.
After this happens, Sam starts to see a bloody woman. Is it Bloody Mary? The members of the football team begin to disappear and turn up dead. Sam realises that there is someone with a vendetta against the football team. The captain of the team. Buck, thinks that Sam and her friends are to blame. Sam and her friends find out about Mary Banner and what happened to her all of those years ago. Sam and her brother, David, investigate the case and they look up the other two girls from that night in 1969. There is only one survivor. A woman called Grace(Lifford) is the only one left. At first, she doesn't want to talk to them about it. She changes her mind when she finds out what is happening and she tells them that it is Mary who is killing people. She has come back from the grave to exact her revenge. Mary is taking the children of the guys who drugged her and her friends. Buck tells them that his dad was one of the guys who drugged the girls back then. Buck gets killed when Mary appears.
Sam has a vision and she sees that Mary wasn't dead. She was locked in the box and she suffocated. Grace tells Sam to find Mary's body and lay her to rest. David gets attacked. Sam and Grace go to the school to look for Mary. Sam finds her in the box and she takes her to the graveyard with Grace. Sam's stepfather shows up. Sam had called him to help. It turns out that he was the one who locked Mary in the box and now he has to kill Sam so that she won't tell anyone his secret. He has already killed David. Mary shows up to save Sam from him and she takes him with her to the grave. Sam and Grace survive and the truth about Mary's killer is revealed.
This was an okay film. There wasn't anything special about it. It was more of a supernatural film, unlike the previous two movies. This is the weakest of the three films also. It was middle of the road but I wanted to watch it as I had seen the other two. The story is pretty simple. The cast were okay. It's not really scary at all and there isn't anything new here. It is worth a look but don't expect too much. I will give it a 4/10.
Urban Legend 2:The Final Cut is a 2000 horror movie directed by John Ottman and starring Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Eva Mendes, Loretta Devine, Hart Bochner, Anthony Anderson and Joseph Lawrence.
The movie begins with students at a film school. There is a film competition and a girl called Amy(Morrison) is going to make a film about an urban legends killer after talking to security guard, Reese(Devine). A girl called Lisa goes for a drink and it is spiked. She passes out and she wakes up in a bath full of ice. Her kidney has been removed. She calls the police and tries to escape, but she gets killed in the process. Amy's friend is also killed and her death is filmed by the killer. Somehow, the killer manages to put it on their camera and they all see it. They don't think that it is real. A student called Travis(Matthew Davis) kills himself over his bad grades. Amy meets his twin, Trevor. He says that his brother did not kill himself. He thinks he was murdered. He asks her not to tell anyone.
Amy's cameraman, Simon is beaten to death. Amy hears someone being attacked. She is looking through her reels when the killer arrives and tries to attack her. She runs off and gets away. She talks to Trevor about what happened.Amy and her crew go to an old place to film some scenes. The killer just happens to be there. He kills a couple of students by electrocuting them. Amy returns to campus and notifies the police, who think it was an accident. Amy sees a light on in the bell tower and she wanders up there to find her friend, Vanessa(Mendes), waiting there for her. Vanessa had received a note from Amy saying that she had feelings for her. It is a forgery and it is a trap. The killer is there and Amy is pursued once again, while Vanessa is killed.Reese shows up and finds the body.
It turns out that Travis had made a film and that all of the people who worked on it are dead except for one- a guy called Toby. They hold him and they call Professor Solomon(Bochner) to tell him what happened. He comes to meet them and there is a confrontation. Toby is innocent. The Professor is the killer. He shoots Toby. He wants to frame Amy for it. Her father was a filmmaker and he didn't vote for Solomon's film in an awards ceremony so his career never took off. He wanted to take Travis' film and pass it off as his own. Reese shows up. She is unaware of who the killer is. They end up holding guns on each other. The Professor gets shot when he tries to kill Amy. The movie ends with Solomon watching Amy's film. He is wheeled back to his room by a nurse, who just happens to be Brenda from the first movie. She tells him that they have a lot in common!!
This was a fun film. It isn't as good as the first one, but there is enough to keep you entertained. It was pretty easy to figure out who the killer was early on. The cast were not bad on the whole. It was a bit silly at the end, but all in all, this was decent enough. I recommend it. I will give it a 5/10.
Urban Legend is a 1998 horror movie directed by Jamie Blanks and starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Tara Reid, Joshua Jackson, Robert Englund and Rebecca Gayheart. The movie begins with a college student being killed by someone who was hiding in the backseat of her car. She was a student of Pendleton University. Everyone on campus is talking about it, including Natalie(Witt) and her friend Brenda(Gayheart). Their friend, Parker(Michael Rosenbaum) is telling them that one of the college buildings was the site of murders years ago. Everyone is spooked. The dean of the university doesn't want everyone to panic. He has a campus police officer called Reese Wilson(Loretta Devine) with him and they are trying to calm it all down. This doesn't sit well with a journalism student called Paul Gardner(Leto). He wants to find out all about the murder.
Natalie goes on a date with a classmate called Damon(Jackson). They are together in his car and he tries to get with her. She doesn't want to, so he goes outside to urinate. There is a killer out there and he ends up being hung from a tree above the car. Natalie sees this and she flees in terror back to the university and she tells Reese. The police come back to the spot with her, but there is no car and no Damon there. It looks like it was a prank. Her friends try to reassure her that it was a joke and that Damon will turn up. Unfortunately, Natalie's roommate gets killed. It is no longer safe. Paul digs into the history of the college and he discovers that there were actually murders there years ago. He finds that there is one person who survived it. He is called Professor Wexler(Englund).
The dean is murdered. Parker is the next to meet his demise during a party. Natalie realises that her friend Sasha(Reid) is in danger and she goes to find her, but she witnesses the killer murdering her. Paul and Brenda meet Natalie and they are all scared that Wexler might be the killer. But when they discover his dead body, they realise that this is not the case. Who is it? They all go in different directions and Natalie finds Brenda in the old building where the murders happened. At first, she thinks that Brenda has been caught by the killer. She gets knocked out and she wakes up to find Brenda standing over her.
She tells Natalie that she murdered those people because Natalie and Michelle had been driving one night and they had played an urban legend trick by turning off their headlights and chasing after the first car who flashed at them. Unfortunately, they hit and killed Brenda's fiancee and she is pissed! She is going to remove Natalie's kidney when Reese shows up and stops her. There is a fight and Reese gets stabbed. Paul shows up, Natalie grabs Reese's gun and shoots Brenda. Brenda takes a dive out of the window. Is she dead? Are they ever?? Everything seems okay as Natalie and Paul drive away to get the police but Brenda pops up and tries to kill them. They crash the car and Brenda flies through the windscreen and into a river. Is she dead now??Nope. The movie ends with Brenda sitting with a different group of students who are talking about what happened at Pendleton. She tells them that the story they heard isn't true. She begins to tell them what really happened.
This film is a favourite of mine. It is similar to Scream, but I don't see that as a bad thing. There is a great cast in this. Jared Leto, Joshua Jackson, Alicia Witt, Robert Englund. The story is decent and the murders are based on various urban legends, hence the movie title. I think it's a lot of fun and I think it was one of those slashers from the 90's that really stood out- like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. If you enjoyed those, then you will like this one. I never hear that much about it and it's a shame because it is a really enjoyable slasher movie with a cast that is impressive. I love watching it every so often and I highly recommend it. I will give this one an 8/10.
