Urban
Legends: Bloody Mary
On
November 5, 1969 , three high school
football players try to drug and kidnap their prom night dates .Their plan
works with two of the girls but the third, Mary Banner, (Lilith Fields) tries
to escape. The football captain chases her into a storage room and punches her,
knocking her out. He panics and locks her body in a trunk, thinking she is
dead. She wakes up later locked in the trunk, eventually dying inside it.
35-years
later, this story is told among three school girls during a sleep over. One of the,
Samantha (Kate Mara), had written an article in the school paper critical of
football player’s academic achievements and subsequently she, her friends and
her brother David (Robert Vito) are treated as outcasts by the rest of the
school. Samantha and her two friends, Martha and Mandy, jokingly conjure up
Bloody Mary and the next morning all three are gone. After having been missing
for one day, they reappear, waking up in an old deserted mill, with no
knowledge of how they got there. While most suspect a hoax on the girls’ part,
Samantha and David suspect that it is some prank on the football team’s part.
While
Samantha haunted by visions of a dead girl bleeding from her head, several
pupils die under mysterious circumstances resembling urban legends: for
example, football player Roger (Brandon Sacks) burns in a sun
bed. The next day, Heather (Audra Lea Keener), girlfriend to football captain
Buck (Michael Gregory Coe), has spiders erupting from a swelling on her cheek,
driving her to cut her face with a mirror. The following evening, football
player, Tom (Nate Herd), is electrocuted while urinating on an old electric
fence, his ring finger being bitten or cut off.
Buck
blames these deaths on the Owens siblings. Before her death, Heather made up
with Samantha and tried to tell her that this happened before. In her homework,
Samantha finds notes sent to Heather about the disappearance of Mary Banner and
the homecoming kidnappings of 1969, as well as notes referencing the events of
the previous films. Browsing the school paper’s archives, they find out that
Mary was never found, that another victim committed suicide years later and
that the third, Grace Taylor (Tina Lifford), still lives in town.
They
visit Grace, who claims that Mary, or rather her “life force”, is exacting
revenge on the children of the five people involved in the kidnappings but
cannot (or will not) reveal the names of he perpetrators. While Samantha is
prone to believe her, David remains skeptical and thinks that Grace is more
likely the killer. While sneaking around in Grace’s house, he also found that Grace
produced or collected artwork on Urban Legend and identifies Grace as the
originator of the notes sent to Heather. The siblings go to warn Buck, who
admits that he and his mates orchestrated Samantha’s disappearance and blames
her for the death of his friends. He also reveals that his father, the football
coach, was one of the kidnappers in 1969 but didn’t hurt Mary. Samantha however
suspects that the coach was the one that killed Mary as she saw him put flowers
on her headstone earlier. Her stepfather, how overheard her, tells her to
reveal any solid evidence she has.
Meanwhile,
an upset Buck tries to relax by drinking and watching a movie in a motel.
Falling asleep, he wakes up from hearing a dripping sound and discovers the
corpse of his dog. He is attacked by Mary, who crawls out from under his bed
and kills him with his broken bottle. Different rumors about his death
immediately spring up.
Both
siblings are trying to find clues about the fifth remaining perpetrator,
Samantha by browsing through old photographs, David by visiting Grace again.
Grace still refuses to reveal the names but directs him to the school archives.
Going through the archives, he suddenly finds out the identity of the fifth
person and rushes home, but finds Sam gone and is suffocated by a hooded man.
Samantha meanwhile has visions of Mary again, revealing that the girl was not
dead when being locked in the trunk and also her whereabouts. She also visits
Grace, who tells her to find and bury Mary’s corpse and reluctantly agrees to
drive Samantha to the school. While Grace is waiting in the van, Samantha finds
the storage room and the trunk with Mary’s corpse in it. The hooded man also
appears and enters the storage room but Samantha locks him inside while
carrying Mary’s remains outside to the van.
Finding
Grace asleep, Samantha drives the van to the cemetery, where she begins to dig
a grave for Mary under her headstone. Her stepfather, whom Samantha had phoned,
also appears and helps her digging but suddenly hits her with the shovel.
Pursuing his stepdaughter through the graveyard, Mr. Owens (Ed Marinaro)
reveals that he was the one that locked Mary in the trunk and that he also
killed his stepson, David. He finally captured her and is about to decapitate
her when Mary, in her living form, appears. Smiling towards Samantha, she
kisses him, then reverts back to her ghastly form and drags him with her into
the grave.
When
Samantha wakes up, the grave is surrounded by police and medical personnel
retrieving her stepfather’s corpse. Mr. Owens is announced to have died of a
heart attack while trying to dispose of Mary Banner’s remains.
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