Do you consider scream a horror classic?

[Triadkd]

Forget the sequels, rip offs, and it's horrible effects on the genre. Do you consider wes cravens scream a horror movie classic? I do, imo it has an iconic antagonist, great charachters, and it is ORIGINAL. I think this movie gets a bad rap because of the copycats, but the original is king.

 

[Speedball]

It's not really all that scary. I think it's more of a thriller than a horror film.
I could consider a classic thriller, but not horror.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Scream is a great great movie, it is hands down one of the smartest movies made in the 90's not just horror, but all movies

It is a Black Comedy more than a horror, and it is a hilarious one at that

It is also a very good at building tension to supplant its horror need

I consider it a classic, and great movie, weather it is a pure breed horror or notis the question

 

[Triadkd]

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. And speed ball what horror movie has been scary since the 70's?

 

[Killgore]

Wow, if Scream is considered a classic, then the standards have gotten pitifully low.

 

[Speedball]

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. And speed ball what horror movie has been scary since the 70's?

The Descent and 28 days later.
Children of Men to some extent.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Yes, it's certainly classic to its generation.

 

[cryptic name]

The Descent and 28 days later.
Children of Men to some extent.

children of men scared you?

 

[Speedball]

children of men scared you?

No.
I mean the battle scene.
The music, the cinematography. It created an intense environment that made you sit on the edge of your seat, unsure of what is going to happen.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Hell yeah. Screw Kaiser Soze. 2 killers. There's a twist no one saw coming.

 

[Triadkd]

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".

 

[ShaneHelms]

Scream is definatly high on my list of Horror movies. Wes Craven's last good movie.

 

[cryptic name]

Scream's a great horror movie, very original for it's time and has been imitated and lampooned enough to warrant being considered a modern classic

 

[Tempest19]

I don't think it was necessarily horror. Always viewed it as a great satire (or spoof) on the horror genre itself.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

I don't think it was necessarily horror. Always viewed it as a great satire (or spoof) on the horror genre itself.

It is Scary Movie, if scary movie where a smart, intellegent movie

 

[britrogue]

Forget the sequels, rip offs, and it's horrible effects on the genre. Do you consider wes cravens scream a horror movie classic? I do, imo it has an iconic antagonist, great charachters, and it is ORIGINAL. I think this movie gets a bad rap because of the copycats, but the original is king.

I would call it a classic, even though the only bit I think is any good is the bit with Drew Barrymoore

 

[Fanticon]

I honestly do...it doesn't hurt that one of the best old school horror directors of our time directed it too. All these things that people say they "spoofed" that came across as humerous were actually done really well. The first viewing it had me guessing to the end, its one of the greatest modern who-dunnits ever made. The sequels I could have done without.

 

[Fried Gold]

It's hard to be objective, really, as I don't think it's aged particularly well. What we need to remember though, is that this was the first of the modern slasher movies to take the conventions of a 'traditional' slasher flick, and expose them to the audience whilst at the same time abiding and adhering to the very same rules that it was going out of it's way to mock. A little self referential and indulgent at times, but in the mid 90s, this worked in it's favour and was rather fresh.

In that respect, I'd argue in favour of Scream being a modern classic, albeit one tainted by a decades worth of inferior sequels and rip-offs.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

Hell yeah. Screw Kaiser Soze. 2 killers. There's a twist no one saw coming.

please tell me your being sarcastic, scream had one of the most obvious twists in cinema

 

[Fried Gold]

please tell me your being sarcastic, scream had one of the most obvious twists in cinema

Yeah, but it wasn't as obvious as say, Fight Club or Matchstick Men, and for it's time, it was pretty a bold move in an otherwise tired genre.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

Yeah, but it wasn't as obvious as say, Fight Club or Matchstick Men, and for it's time, it was pretty a bold move in an otherwise tired genre.

yeah it was the first time you see ghostface during the whole drew barrymore scene he hadnt got a phone and the mask was too small for the size of headsets so he must have had an assistant

 

[Mr Jide]

Scream's a great horror movie, very original for it's time and has been imitated and lampooned enough to warrant being considered a modern classic

Word.

 

[Rac]

Yeah I do. I think it reinvented the slasher genre to the 90's.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

absolutely

 

[green]

Compared to the regurgitated crap called horror films today, Scream was and is genius.