Urban Legend

This series was disappointing. Each ending left me wanting more. Many of the stories had decent build-ups but the payoffs just felt non-existent or lacking. None of the episodes left a lasting impression.

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This series was disappointing. Each ending left me wanting more. Many of the stories had decent build-ups but the payoffs just felt non-existent or lacking. None of the episodes left a lasting impression.

This series was disappointing. Each ending left me wanting more. Many of the stories had decent build-ups but the payoffs just felt non-existent or lacking. None of the episodes left a lasting impression.

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".

The plot holes are SO annoying. In. Every. Single. Episode. You could drive an ocean liner through the many plot holes! Sad thing is they aren't hard to fix but there's just no care or concern to do so on the part of any of the directors as evidenced in Roth's sit down and chat with them. Roth's insistence that each and every particular urban legend is the most well known and widespread gets tiresome and phony since I've lived a lot longer than he has and never heard of half of theses and the one I heard the most isn't even done or mentioned. The acting wasn't all bad (depends on the episode). The show is worth a watch and INFINITELY better than Two Sentence Horror Stories.

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.

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.