Scream (1996).

[CyrusGrissom]

A great modern horror classic from Wes Craven and was a phenomenon back in the 90's yet feels underrated today. Sure it spawned some crappy knock-offs like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" to "Urban Legend" although "Bride of Chucky" was preety enjoyable. I think it's better then Craven's distasteful "Last House on The Left" and just as good as his "Hills Have Eyes" and "Nightmare on Elm Street".

 

[Riven]

It was great as a postmodern deconstruction of the slasher genre, but I don't feel it was that great of a horror movie in its own right. Though it did have some genuinely scary scenes.

The sequels totally failed though. It went from clever reflexive pastiche into lame self-parody. They fell into exactly the pitfalls of sequels they were describing and instead of being about bad movies, they became bad movies.

That said, I still love the first one. Nevermind all the bad sequels and rip-offs it spawned.

 

[CyrusGrissom]

Yes but this is one of the best horror movies in recent memory along with "High Tension", "The Descent", "The Others", "Ju-On The Grudge", "Ichi The Killer", "Se7en", "Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead)", "Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "Saw 1 & 2", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "The Ring", "Cemetery Man (a.k.a. Dellamorte Dellamore)", "The Oprhanage", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Bride of Chucky", "Dawn of the Dead 2004", "Shaun of the Dead" and "Inside".

 

[Darkness Falls]

awesome movies

 

[DACrowe]

The best horror movie in recent memory was Sweeney Todd, which just so happens to also be a musical based on one of the greatest pieces of stage music ever written.

Anyway, I truly enjoyed Scream. It was just a lot of fun and a very clever post-modern exploration of the genre and the horror formula while also taking sardonic jabs at our media hungry culture, even as it cast mostly TV stars or "90210"-esque leads. It was a pretty brilliant movie that spoke of its era very well in the 1990s.

The sequels...I actually enjoyed the second one. I consider Scream 2 to be more of a dark comedy and complete social satire and not really a horror movie, but in those lenses it is quite enjoyable (albeit killing Randy off still annoys me). Scream 3 was utter garbage, though.

 

[xwolverine2]

sweeney todd wasnt scary at ALL... sorry lol

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I really enjoyed Scream. I watched it all the time as a kid............as memories.

 

[DACrowe]

Who said it was supposed to be scary? ****, I can't remember the last time a horror movie DID scare me that was new. But ST was still an amazing movie and one of the best of the decade and it was also a horror movie.

Hence my post.

 

[JaD]

Anytime Scream is on I have to watch this movie, it is just awesome. I enjoyed the entire series as well. I love the end of the first one and found myself laughing pretty hard because of how convincing of a psycho Matthew Lillard was. "'..Cuz let's face it!!!!These dayss!!!!You gotta have the sequel!!!" (I loved how he flipped off Sidney in that part The movies are so clever, and IMO the movies didn't get worse or anything (unlike some horror franchises). I enjoyed 'em all.

 

[TNC9852002]

Yeah, it wasn't like a scary, cheap-scare horror movie, but more of a suspense psychological horror movie....at least, that's how I remember it. It's been a while since I've seen the first Scream..

-TNC

 

[dogwonder78]

Ya, I saw Scream 1, 2 and 3 and thought I was such a bad ass. Those are some of the only "scary" movies I can sit through.

 

[dogwonder78]

Ya, I saw Scream 1, 2 and 3 and thought I was such a bad ass. Those are some of the only "scary" movies I can sit through.