Urban Legend

This is an anthology horror series produced by Eli Roth. Each episode is supposed to be an urban legend and ends with a section where Eli chats with the newly discovered filmmaker. That chat is the least compelling part of every episode. I do appreciate Eli giving these people some facetime, but they usually have nothing interesting to say. The actors tend to be newbies which gives an interesting vibe. This is not a big production. At its core, this show has an indie horror feel. For the first season, episode 5 is good. The others are mostly simplistic and a bit boring. I don't know if there are more seasons to come.

It was a good concept but there are so many urban legends they could have done. Unless they are making a season 2. Which I hope they do bad or good its still a fun watch. Some of these are 100x better than season 3 of creepshow even some of season 2 of creepshows were bad. It was weird though how eli had interviews with directors in first couple episodes then nothing till episode 8. Here's my opinion on the season.

The best episodes were... the choking doberman.

The red room.

The scuba diver.

Episodes just ok.... the bite the white dress the creep in the walls

the worst episodes the harvest the haunted shower.

Not exactly sure when Eli Roth signed some big contract with the travel channel or when the Travel Channel became paranormal and horror based as it is now. Either way this series is off to a promising start with some solid horror based subject matter. While a lot of it reminiscent to certain things we've seen before spliced with urban legend topics, it's executed passably and is rather enticing at times. There are a lot of scenes that have been taken from other movies but at this point it's hard not to have familiarity in 2022. I do like the Eli Roth interview with the Director at the end of each episode as it gives a nice aspect. I will definitely continue to see what other topics they touch on which is more than I can say for most series.

I was a bit hesitant about watching this series at first as I have not had much luck finding decent horror anthologies besides Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. By no means am I putting this series in that league. It's not, however I find each story that I watched entertaining enough, and production values and the acting was fairly decent.

I would have of course liked to see them more closely follow the urban legends they seem based off, instead of going a bit 'out there' with them. Which is especially the case of the 2nd one in the series.

However, they are watchable and kept me wanting to see what was happening next.

I love urban legends, so I decided to give this one a try, despite being produced and created by "master" Eli Roth (arguably one of the worst well known horror directors)

While episodes were not directed by Eli, show has his prints all over them, starting with dull uninteresting direction, terrible pacing and dialogues that only Eli Roth can deliver.

So far I've seen two episodes, "The Red Room" and "The bite" and both were equally dull, boring and drawn out, in particular "The Bite" felt like I was watching two hour movie, when each episode is around 35 minutes long.

Acting is wooden and stiff, but this might be more related to poor direction, especially in "The Bite".