Urban Legend trilogy Blu-ray box set coming from 88 Films in the UK

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

88 Films released an I Know What You Did Last Summer trilogy Blu-ray box set in the UK just last month (you can pick that up HERE), and now they have announced that they're also giving the Blu-ray box set treatment to the Urban Legend trilogy. The Urban Legend trilogy box set will be released in the UK on March 29th, and its Amazon page can be seen HERE.

Camp fire stories aren't real – are they? Someone thinks they are and, in Urban Legend, they pick off their victims using those apparently apocryphal yarns as a template. The killing continues in Urban Legend: Final Cut, with a new killer – and new inspirations. And if your nerves can handle it, Urban Legend: Bloody Mary places a fresh, terrifying, spin on some old, old tales.

Even better than listening to spooky old stories (“…the call is coming from INSIDE the house…”), these three films are modern slasher classics. 88 Films are proud to present the complete Urban Legend trilogy on UK Blu-ray for the first time, completely uncut.

Released in 1998, the first Urban Legend (watch it HERE) was directed by Jamie Blanks from a screenplay by Silvio Horta. The film stars Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson, Robert Englund, Danielle Harris, Brad Dourif, Julian Richings, and Loretta Devine. 

Devine returned in 2000's Urban Legends: Final Cut (watch that HERE), directed by John Ottman and scripted by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Her co-stars in that one were Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Eva Mendes, Joseph Lawrence, Jessica Cauffiel, Anson Mount, Anthony Anderson, and Michael Bacall.

While the first two films are slashers, 2005's direct-to-video sequel Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (watch it HERE, if you dare) took things in a supernatural direction. The I Know What You Did Last Summer trilogy did something similar, and it didn't work either time. Pet Sematary's Mary Lambert directed Bloody Mary from a script by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris. The film stars Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford, Ed Marinaro, Michael Gregory Coe, Lilith Fields, Nancy Everhard, and Don Shanks, with an appearance by Mara's sister Rooney Mara, earning her first screen credit.

I've never been a huge fan of any Urban Legend movie, but the trilogy is interesting to watch, and it's fun to see the familiar faces and genre icons. Plus, the frachise was written by people who gave us the likes of Ugly Betty, Hellraiser: Inferno, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Deliver Us from Evil, Doctor Strange, X-Men 2, Trick 'r Treat, Krampus, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters.