About Urban Legend
Urban Legend has long been called the Scream copycat film, however, I’d argue it’s just as clever with its horror and pop culture references. With every twist and turn there’s a link or reference to the horror films that came before.
With all those references and easter eggs to spot, Urban Legend is absolutely begging for a set of trivia questions and answers to test your knowledge. Enjoy the quiz below and let us know how many questions and answers you got right.
Urban Legend Trivia Questions and Answers
1. When was the Urban Legend movie released?
Answer: 1998.
2. Who was originally cast in the role of “Sasha” but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts?
Answer: Sarah Michelle Gellar. Her commitments to the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer would’ve made starring in both impossible.
3. Urban Legend stars two famous icons who are well known for their respective horror franchises, who are they and which franchises are they from?
Answer: Brad Dourif (voice of Chucky, Child’s Play) and Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger, Nightmare on Elm Street).
4. What does the Latin motto in the University emblem translate to?
Answer: “The Best Friend Did It”.
5. True of False: Urban Legends is one of the first films to feature blue Pepsi cans?
Answer: True. The blue Pepsi cans were originally released in 1998.
6. How long did it take to film Urban Legend?
Answer: 53 Days.
7. Which well known American singer stars in this film?
Answer: Jared Leto.
8. How did the concept of the killer’s outfit come about?
Answer: The killer’s outfit is based on the fact that the film was originally planned to be set in the middle of winter. When the weather was too warm, it was decided to drop the winter aspect of the storyline, rather than fake snow in all the outdoor scenes, and dress all of the extras in winter outfits, but they kept the killer’s costume.
9. Which cast member previously appeared in the Halloween horror films?
Answer: Danielle Harris, who had previously starred as Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), originally auditioned for the lead role of Natalie, but was instead cast as Tosh, her temperamental roommate.
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10. Which well known actress who appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer turned down the role of Natalie Simon?
Answer: Jennifer Love Hewitt.
11. Which Urban Legend actor have appeared on the horror tv show Supernatural?
Answer: Julian Richings, Loretta Devine, Alicia Witt, and Robert Englund have all appeared on Supernatural (2005). They played Death, a psychic, an immortal out for revenge against angels, and a back room doctor respectively.
12. True or False: Urban Legend is the feature length directorial debut of Jamie Blanks.
Answer: True.
13. Which Urban legends are referenced in the Urban Legend movie?
Answer:
- A caller to Sasha’s radio show states that she replaced her roommate’s birth control pills with baby aspirin.
- A caller to Sasha’s radio show asks about having her stomach pumped after performing oral sex and ingesting semen.
- A couple suffering from penis captivus call in to Sasha’s radio show.
- Professor Wexler discusses the babysitter and the man upstairs legend during his lecture, and Brenda claims it happened in her hometown.
- Parker suggests placing spider eggs in Bubble Yum as the killer’s next move.
- Brenda is seen wearing a blue ribbon around her neck at the end of the film. This is a vague reference to another urban legend about a girl whose head falls off if she removes the ribbon around her neck.
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14. Which Smallville actor appears in Urban Legend?
Answer: Michael Rosenbaum.
15. What’s the killer’s name?
Answer: Brenda Bates. The last name is a direct nod to Norman Bates, the killer in Psycho.
16. How many characters die in Urban Legend?
Answer: 9 (Michelle Mancini, Damon Brooks, Tosh Guaneri, Dean Adams, Parker Riley, Sasha’s Assistant, Sasha Thomas, Professor Wexler, and the Janitor).
17. What’s the Noxzema commercials reference about?
Answer: At the end of the film, students along with a surviving Brenda from an unnamed college recount the film’s events as an urban legend. They joke about the tale’s validity, and one says, “And I bet Brenda was the girl from the Noxzema commercials.” Rebecca Gayheart, who played Brenda in the film, did indeed appear in several commercials for Noxzema.
18. What is the real life irony of Rebecca Gay heart’s character Brenda?
Answer: It is revealed that Brenda committed the murders to avenge the death of her fiancé, who was killed in a car accident. In real life, actress Rebecca Gayheart, who portrayed Brenda, pleaded no contest when she was charged with vehicular manslaughter after she struck and killed a 9-year-old boy with her car. Mirroring the repercussions Natalie faces after the incident, Gayheart was given three years probation.
19. How long did it take to shoot the scene featuring Damon’s death?
Answer: 3 nights.
20. Does the killer get caught?
Answer: Brenda, the killer, not only gets away but is implied to have successfully killed everyone in the sequel.
21. Where was Urban Legend filmed?
Answer: The University of Toronto.
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