Alpine University film student Amy Mayfield, Jennifer Morrison needs to start her senior project, but she's stymied by a case of screenwriter's block. Then a chance encounter with the new campus cop Loretta Devine the only link to the original Urban Legend gives her an idea: She'll make a film about a serial killer who slays college students in ways related to urban legends. The shrieking begins when her cast and crewmembers start to disappear in a series of bizarre and mysterious incidents.
This Horror is rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.
Aside from Morrison and Devine, the cast includes Joseph Lawrence, Matthew Davis and Anson Mount.
The film was directed to John Ottman, produced by Neal H. Moritz, Gina Matthews and Richard Rothschild and written by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Sony released this sequel.
In its first week out, the number one hit made $8,800,000.
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