Four dumb teens hit someone with their car and decide to cover it up rather than report it to the police. The following summer, they're all contacted by a blackmailer threatening to expose them, and the body count piles up.
This film is quintessentially '90s, or at least the way Hollywood tried to depict it back then. Kevin Williamson attempts to recreate some of that magic from the previous summer's hit horror whodunnit Scream, and it mostly succeeds based on a memorable hook and highly quotable title alone. In the years since its release, it's been reappraised as somewhat of a modern slasher classic, although it was mainly mocked mercilessly at the time. Regardless, it remains a simple, solid premise that more or less holds up some 30 (!) years later.
2½ urban legends out of 5
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