Urban Legend

(Columbia Tri-Star)

This slasher-genre entry stars Alicia Witt as a cynical coed who, after a classmate (Natasha Gregson Wagner) is axed, becomes the focal point for the killer's grisly affections as she is witness to several student-body terminations. The slick, noirish visuals go a long way toward holding this patchwork chiller together, but when the identity of the killer is revealed, Urban Legend swan-dives from potentially hip cliché into sheer ridiculousness.