Just Watched SCREAM For The First Time

[SNYC]

Yeah, i kinda understand what you mean. I grew up on 80s horror

Truthfully, the Scream series was a parody of classic horror tropes & cliches. This film & 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' brought a different take to the 'who done it' genre for the MTV generation. I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously.


Just look at the storylines after the 1st one film.

In the sequel films, Hollywood makes a film series adaptation of a book written by the news reporter who covered the killings in the first movie. This spurs a bunch of copycat killers trying to recreate the same actions

It was a clever way of breaking the 4th wall.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Barely see Scream now and have a shytty take bruhs.

 

[ThisIsLife]

You out your rabid ass mind. Scream is classic

 

[Silkk]

Didn't read shyt



Negged

 

[Silkk]

I don't even neg nikkas for real but you earned this -10

 

[Lootpack]

I don't even neg nikkas for real but you earned this -10

OP:

 

[ECA]

It subverted the genre. If it comes out today it gets a best original screenplay oscar nomination

 

[Take It In Blood]

Alot of the films we loved as kids didn't age well

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

The opening scene is literally a top ten opening scene the history of films...i’d put that scene up there with

• “I believe in america “
• “WHAT...DOES....MARCELLUS....WALLACE....LOOK LIKE ”
• “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away”
• “I feel sorry for your mother ”
• The lion king
• Raiders of the lost ark
• Halloween
• Full metal jacket

That first scene with drew barrymore is on that level.

First, to answer the OP, this movie was great because it turned an entire film genre upside down. It acknowledged that it was in the midst of a cliche slasher movie, but didnt suspend your sense of disbelief by breaking the 4th wall, and it added a mystery and twist that paid off.

second, the entire movie was sold starring Drew Berrymore, and the fact that they fukkin kill her like 6 minutes into the movie was absolutely unheard of, and made you immediately know NOBODY was safe from this killer based on their stardom. Courtney Cox couldve died at any moment. Nobody was killing their A list star after selling the movie with their face on the poster and top billing. This would be like the next friday the 13th reboot starring jennifer lawrence of Zendaya and they die immediately. I dont even think a movie would have the balls to do that in 2022.

third....it was bloody without being gross, it was funny without being stupid, and suspenseful without being cheap which the genre definitely all suffered from in the previous decade or so. It pushed an entire genre which historically had been very profitable which was stung with flops prior. The tentpole series in horror / slasher (nightmare on elm street, friday the 13th, halloween, texas chainsaw, the omen) all had failures in the 90s and the genre was almost dead. This saved it which is why you got sequels.

you dont have to like it but this movie WORKED, it was dope as fukk then and is still a top 5 horror movie to me ever next to Halloween 1, The Shining, a nightmare on elm street, and Terminator (if you object to Terminator 1 being a horror movie, then replace that with the exorcist)

the Ghostface mask is a permanent Halloween fixture now...scream 1 is a classic

 

[feelosofer]

Yea. I can't agree with this. I just re-watched it and it's extremely rare that a movie can toe the line so skillfully between horror and teen comedy. The movie redefined both comedy and horror and was a cultural phenomenon and I actually think it aged pretty well.

 

[Duke Dixon]

Scream changed the game so much for horror movies around the time that you can directly see its influence on movies released after it. Without Scream there's nioo

Urban Legend
The Faculty
Bride of Chucky
Jason X
Cursed
Disturbing Behavior
Idle Hands

 

[FunkDoc1112]

valid points....but as a horror fan..what made the oldschool films actual CLASSICS was not only the story but HOW it was filmed....In this move ghostface was literally inches from his victims ready to stab but got stopped by a refrigerator door...then a cabinet door...then a closet door....then a toilet seat (exaggerated)....like wtf??...how is any of that plausible to keep the movie interesting?...Halloween/Friday 13th/Texas Chainsaw will forever remain classics cuz of the feel of reality that they put into it....I could actually see a psycho doin some shyt from those flicks that makes u think and brings fear....in this movie all I saw was a clown who could be dealt with by closin a window and locking it.....

Cuz Ghostface is a teenager, not a literal monster . Being clumsy as fukk is their thing

 

[KING WILL]

 

[Tasha And]

Cuz Ghostface is a teenager, not a literal monster . Being clumsy as fukk is their thing

We get to see how bumbling they are at the end of the movie too once they are unmasked in the kitchen. The bickering, the mental breakdowns and temper tantrums, losing Sidney and the gun, being uncoordinated and off-balance while tussling with Sidney, etc. It gives color to the previous scenes of Ghostface once you realize these are just goofy and disturbed teens that watched a lot of movies and want to act out their slasher fantasies. Precursor to Columbine kids that sometimes succeed with their planning, and sometimes fall flat and botch the execution.

Billy and Stu nearly even botched the very first kill of the movie, when they lost her, and she almost got away. Because we got to see how Billy and Stu interacted at end of the movie, it makes it very easy to imagine their dynamic at work throughout the movie. So you can imagine the panic they were going through in that first scene when they lost Casey, and they are scrambling through the house trying to find her....

Stu was probably supposed to kill her, but fukked it up and got punched in the face by a phone and Billy had to chase her down and finish it, but got kicked in the nuts in the process

After they displayed the body and bounced, you just know Billy was looking at Stu like while Stu had the

It gives a lot of personality to Ghostface that retroactively makes the scenes of their botches more entertaining to watch. People have even done analysis videos of how Billy and Stu hold the knives differently (Billy uses one hand to stab and likes to strangle the victims, Stu uses two hands and holds the knife over his head before stabbing) so you can go back and pinpoint who was killing who in each scene, and who was fukking up.

 

[Bud Bundy]

Drew Barrymore being killed in the first 5 minutes was a big deal back then.