Wes Craven's 1996 slasher film "Scream" was an effective horror movie, but gained a great deal of cultural and critical traction for its metaphysical commentary. The characters in "Scream" were old enough to have been raised on the slasher movies of the 1970s and 1980s, making them able to recognize when they were themselves enmeshed in a slasher movie-like scenario. When the killers are eventually revealed, they admit to being inspired by their favorite horror movies. "Movies don't create killers," they say, "movies make killers creative."
Although "Scream" could have easily been the final slasher movie ever made -- it effectively deconstructed the genre once and for all -- it was a massive hit, leading to no small number of imitators and a long string of sequels that have become just as weary as the Roman-numeraled '80s slashers the 1996 original was lampooning. "Scream" was released in Los Angeles on December 18, 1996, and its first sequel,...
Although "Scream" could have easily been the final slasher movie ever made -- it effectively deconstructed the genre once and for all -- it was a massive hit, leading to no small number of imitators and a long string of sequels that have become just as weary as the Roman-numeraled '80s slashers the 1996 original was lampooning. "Scream" was released in Los Angeles on December 18, 1996, and its first sequel,...
- 4/1/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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