Do you consider scream a horror classic?

[PyroChamber]

What I find crazy is that Scream is considered a spoof of horror films, but aren't spoofs suppose to be funny?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

what horror movie has been scary since the 70's?

The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Poltergeist 1+2
The Thing
The Evil Dead
An American Werewolf in London
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Hitcher
Lost Highway
Parts of the Sixth Sense
Slither
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Jeepers Creepers
Dawn of the Dead remake
The Howling
Prince of Darkness
Hostel


Scream is garbage btw.
The fact that people like it hurts me. It hurts me.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Scream is garbage btw.
The fact that people like it hurts me. It hurts me.

LOL

 

[Killgore]

Killgore what horror movies do you consider to be classics? Scream is an excellent movie that followed the rules, yet managed to be the most original horror film in years. Why do genre fans have to be so high and mighty? It's ok to like something that is considered popular. You dont have to praise unknown and unpopular films to keep your geek cred. For once just admit that a popular film is good and not "overated" or "crap".

Classic horror films?

Psycho
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
The Thing
The Fly
The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead
The original Dawn of the Dead
The Evil Dead
American Werewolf in London
Nosferotu
The Shining
The Re-Animator
The Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Suspiria
Rosemary's Baby
The Devil's Backbone
Audition
Alien
and the scariest movie of all time -- Jaws

to list a few. Scream is to horror movies as Last Action Hero is to Action Films.

 

[Doug Henning]

You dont have to praise unknown and unpopular films to keep your geek cred. For once just admit that a popular film is good and not "overated" or "crap".

I'm sorry to have to get harsh but th^t is always so ******ed, whenever I hear it.

DooOOOoooD!!

I.LOVE.Star Wars!
I loved Jurassic Park.
I loved Ghostbusters.
I loved Spider-Man.
I loved Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I loved Terminator 2.
I loved Aliens.

Those are among THE most mainstream, popular, widely known and accepted movies OF ALL TIME! So, we've established that I for one am not trying to preserve some worthless sense of street cred by only liking snobby, obscure, little known classics....nor condemning Scream because it was popular.




I'm condemning Scream because, unlike those^ movies I mentioned, that were ginormous blockbuster explosions of popularity and mainstream success?.....Scream sucked ass.


Whywhywhy is it that fans of a movie can't ever accept that people who disagree just honestly watched it and didn't like it?
It's always some conspiracy....if you hated Phantom Menace, I can't tell you how many times I've read Lucas-Zombies say, "Well....it's the "IN" thing right now to hate on Phantom Menace...but I'm my OWN person, so I liked it."

Gawd!
No, I hated it because JarJar was unwatchable and unfunny, the CGI was diluted, meaning they had to make it go farther so the quality was watered down, Anakin's story should've started with him as a teenaged Padawan learner, not a little kid, there was not ONE villain who had any characterization!!!.....analytical, filmic stuff like that.....not some attempt to seem "cool".


ridiculous.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Yeah i would say so. It helped revieve the horror/thriller genre back into popular mainstream after being dead for so many years. And being looked down upon as a joke from all the goofy horror movies of the last so many years.

 

[Doug Henning]

And being looked down upon as a joke from all the goofy horror movies of the last so many years.

by...ushering in a new era where EVERY horror movie was a joke.

 

[Tempest19]

/\ Well Scream was a satire, having a running commentary of sorts even...

 

[Kevin Roegele]

/\ Well Scream was a satire, having a running commentary of sorts even...

Scream isn't a satire. Certainly it winks at the audience, and is knowingly post-modern, but it does take itself seriously most of the time. Scream is also a whodunnit murder mystery, which often gets overlooked, but primarily it is a slasher movie.

 

[Spoon Tang]

/\ Well Scream was a satire, having a running commentary of sorts even...

Oh it was? Well in that case it's the greatest movie evah!!!

Scream was poorly acted and directed. You act as though Scream invented the concept of a self-aware movie.

 

[The Shape]

I loved Scream when I first saw it, and still do. I think it was clever, laying out the ground rules seen in each and every slasher film and following each one. It was fun. I'm also a fan of the two sequels. While not as good as the original, I like the story that the trilogy created. Each film is funny and cool in its own way.

 

[vampireslayer97]

Never really thought they were scary movies, but I do love them. I still Wonder if Craven will ever do a reunion movie like New Nightmare was.

 

[GoldGoblin]

I can't believe that movie came out eleven years ago,I guess we should expect a remake soon,lol.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Poltergeist 1+2
The Thing
The Evil Dead
An American Werewolf in London
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Hitcher
Lost Highway
Parts of the Sixth Sense
Slither
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Jeepers Creepers
Dawn of the Dead remake
The Howling
Prince of Darkness
Hostel


Scream is garbage btw.
The fact that people like it hurts me. It hurts me.

TCM 2 and Jeepers Creepers are awful, and decidely non-classics.

Scream ushered in a new generation of horror and slasher, for better or for worse (mostly worse). It's cultural impact is undeniable. The icon of "Ghost Face" has been the only figure in recent years to join the "psycho killer cannon", besides Hannibal Lecter.

It's an elite group.

Voorhees
Krueger
Myers
Lecter
Bates
Leatherface
Ghost Face
(and to a lesser extent, Chucky, Candyman, etc..)

Jigsaw is the most recent example.

 

[Caliber]

How can you not consider scream a horror film? It has a serial killer with a mask, it follows the rules of horror films to a T. The entire movie was a love letter to slasher flicks.

Slasher films are not horror films. They are something different.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Poltergeist 1+2
The Thing
The Evil Dead
An American Werewolf in London
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Hitcher
Lost Highway
Parts of the Sixth Sense
Slither
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Jeepers Creepers
Dawn of the Dead remake
The Howling
Prince of Darkness
Hostel


Scream is garbage btw.
The fact that people like it hurts me. It hurts me.

....the ****?

 

[Fried Gold]

What I find crazy is that Scream is considered a spoof of horror films

No it isn't.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

TCM 2 and Jeepers Creepers are awful, and decidely non-classics.

Yeah, I don't know why you took the time to point that out because everyone's aunt and poodle knows that.

That list I made had nothing to do with being "classics" at all.
If you surveyed the landscape and checked out the context you'd know that it was a reply to a guy who asked "What movie has been scary since the 70's?"

I feel that the - family at the radio station ("Incoming MAIL! Incoming MAIL!"),...chainsaw between Stretch's legs and the entire running around trying to escape their weird funhouse lair qualified it as "scary"

(not "CLASSIC")

Next, I think JC had cool, scary moments regardless of how crappy it was filmically speaking, and you have to give it credit for killing the protagonist.
Particularly the scene where the demon spreads his wings and is kicking ass at the police station "scared" me because it seemed like a weird nightmare, the strange atmosphere in this tiny town...the impossible, standing roight before these simple-minded people.


You really don't need to educate me about what is "classic" or isn't as Horror movies are one of my big 5 passions in life and I'd wager I was obsessively poring over Famous Monsters magazine before you were even a glistening on the tip of your father's member.