Anti-cliché

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2012)

'Scream' brought a lot of attention back to teen-based horror films. However, despite a lot in this genre being 'movie-trash', this film certainly is not.
It's a black-comedy almost with a lot of now famous names included in the cast. The most famous at the time this was made (1996) was Drew Barrymore who doesn't last very long. This opening sequence to the film automatically made 'Scream' special. Throughout the film there are a lot of nods to teen-horror cliché's which are usually ridiculed. Mocking the typical teenage horror character stereotype is what made this film so unique and very funny. The script itself is often genius, the funny scenes can be really funny and the horror/frightening scenes do what they're supposed to do.
Most of the acting is pretty good. Matthew Lillard is probably the best in the film, providing most of the comedy. Other performances like those of Courtney Cox and David Arquette are very good which is something you don't see too much of in horror films.
The film overall is really worth a watch, apparently after this film was released sales of house-phones with caller ID doubled, you know that a film had that great an effect on people must be worthy of watching.