Overrated schlock

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2000)

Okay..."Scream" definitely did bring the slasher genre back to life, and that is a good thing. Yes, Wes Craven is a very talented director and the acting in this film was very good. However, this movie failed to thrill me and make me "scream". Yes, it is very gory (guts splattering on the floor, heads flattened by garage doors, throats slashed, scissor-stabbing, squirting blood, etc.) but it was way too long and some of the twists were too stupid for their own good. Overall, I wasn't surprised or really that into this movie. The whole "Scream" trilogy is very, very overrated. I prefer some older, cheesier films like "The Funhouse" or "House of Death" over this junk.