Well, here is a film I was never too proud of when I first watched it. I remember watching this film back in middle school. I heard it was among some of the best slasher films out there, alongside Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And yet, when I watched it, I thought it was really lame and overrated and couldn’t understand what people saw in it. But, after watching this movie years later, and getting a new idea on it, what do I think about it now? Well, on Cultober, let’s take a look at the 1996 slasher classic, Scream



In the lovely state of Shithole, California, teens receive phone calls from a mysterious caller that gives scary movie trivia. Little do they know that the caller is actually a serial killer who is testing them, and when they can’t answer his Вопросы properly, he kills them. Word gets around as a slasher known as the Ghostface Killer, или just Ghostface, and the students of the school have to try and survive the night by avoiding basic horror movie cliches, only to follow up on those cliches moments later when they are in danger. The plot sounds simple enough, and you’d be right. It’s nothing еще than a typical slasher film that was made by slasher film legend, Wes Craven, creator of the Night on Elm улица, уличный series. But when Ты look deeper into this movie, check out all the Письмо quirks, and look at it as a sort of parody on horror movies, it becomes a lot еще fun.
The movie is clearly something that Wes Craven made for slasher film Фаны as well as something he made for himself. This is both a Любовь letter and a giant middle finger to the slasher genre. Kids in school talking about all the dumb cliches, like stupid teens running up the stairs, или they should not party, have sex, или say they’ll be back, and despite that all, they break all the rules and it usually results in their demise at the hands of Ghostface. Just seeing these kids talk about all sorts of classic cliches from the past is kinda fun to watch. Also, it was the film that brought slasher films into a sort of mainstream. Friday the 13th and Elm улица, уличный may have been kings of the genre and were iconic in their own rights, but Scream was the movie that helped revive it and brought slasher films to the forefront when it came to big horror movies, spawning tons of slasher films to get remakes или sequels, или allow new genres to spring up and try their hand at the genre. It’s quite inspiring, really.
But the real start of the Показать is Ghostface himself. How did he do it. This fucker was one of the latest slasher films, barely twenty years old, and yet here he is, being seen as iconic as Freddy или Jason. It’s amazing really, and I think it is because of how his character is portrayed. He’s not some silent killer или some wise cracker, at least not all the time. He’s just some horror movie dork that knows a thing about slasher movies, and uses that to scare people and play with their emotions before killing them. And the costume he wears is actually pretty generic, but in a good way. Back in the 90s, getting a mask of Ghostface was easy, even before Scream became a huge hit. This was a pretty typical mask in stores, and anyone could have it. The thought of any average joe being able to conceal their face and immediately become a killer is actually kinda fascinating. And sure, I still hate the whole, “I was the killer the whole time and I will kill Ты after I give my speech” shit that the characters at the end do is real lame and stupid, but 90% of the film as has Ghostface be a real threat.
So Scream is a pretty good movie. It’s far from my Избранное slasher film franchise, but hey, it’s not as bad as I remember it being in middle school. And like any successful horror franchise, it had a ton of sequels that never matched the series’ originally quality and died out after a while. I guess there is no longer a market for big name slasher villains. Well except Michael Myers apparently, but what can Ты do about that. Scream is a movie that both pays tribute and mocks the cliches of old. It created a new generation of slasher Фаны and made older Фаны appreciate the stuff from the past. It is a true classic of the genre and I recommend a watch.