Both tapes and cassettes look almost new. Pre-viewed for quality and both played great on my Sony vcr except for one little hiccup. Part 2 has a couple of quick steady lines at the top of the frame on the opening sequence, which has lightning in the scene so it is barely noticable.

The full frame is great for old school tube TVs as the image will fill your square frame. The uncompressed audio is superior to its digital counterpart. Retro pop-n-go video has no fussy menus either. Both titles are Out Of Print (OOP) and no longer being produced.

URBAN LEGEND is in the 'Scream' tradition, which means that it's characters are allowed to be aware of the customs of their genre. In this case, the killings are deliberately planned to reenact famous campfire stories. I will only reveal the opening example, in which a woman grows frightened when the alarming goon (Brad Douriff) who runs the gas pumps lures her inside the gas station. She beans him, breaks a window and escapes back to her car--too late for him as he has been trying to warn her there's an axe murderer hiding in the backseat!

The slasher prowls the campus wearing one of those sub-zero Arctic parkas where the fur lining on the hood sticks out so far that you can't see the face on the inside. The movie doesn't waste a single character--every single person is possibly the slasher, including a professor (Robert Englund).

URBAN LEGENDS Final Cut: Fans of modern horror movies should enjoy this reality shifting sequel which is more memorable than the original. Amy is directing a senior thesis horror movie at a private film school. Characters die in her nightmares, in her film, and in reality and each murder was shot in a differant style. The most extreme killing is vintage Dario Argento.

Along the way you get a 'Turbulence' spoof in what looks like the Roger Corman spaceship set, a spooky coal miner amusement park ride, a snuff scene, false scares, mass screaming, nerds doing special FX, choice movie posters, and Alfred Hitchcock references.

'Foxy Brown' fanatic Reese (Loretta Devine reprising her role from the original) is a helpful security guard. Matthew Davis is a failing student (and his own twin), Jessica Cauffiel is a bad actress, and Eva Mendes as a film crew assistant.