The best horror movie of the decade

Rating: 8/10 (8 January 2008)

Scream (1996)
Scream is an interesting film. While at its core it is a gory slasher film, it is also a comical, entertaining and often very tense experience. Wes Craven's film is a success.
Scream while it has all the expected clichés (the killer's behind you) it dares to be original. It is about characters who go to the movies and know and discuss famous horror movies (Halloween, Psycho). They analyse their motives; there's one scene at the end of the film, where a character is watching Mike Myers stalk Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween while the killer is behind him.
The bloody horror violence works effectively. It adds an effect. A sort of running joke. Characters who love iconic horror stars are getting killed by a local psycho. It works.
Kevin Williamson's script is fiendishly inventive, in making this horror film, funny and mysterious and makes you keep guessing and guessing till the end.
Fantastic stuff from a man who has a significant contribution to the horror genre.
7.5/10