Horror back with a bang

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 1999)

The horror movie is most definitely back - with a bang. Scream delivers, rescuing horror fanatics and fans of film in general from the jaws of straight to video gore fests that have plagued the 1990's after the classic stalk and slash flicks of the '70's and '80's. The reason that this film succeeds is that as well as scaring and thrilling the living daylights out of the audience, Wes Craven takes the opportunity to take the mick out of the horror genre, and this hint of comedy is great alongside the much slicing and dicing going on around it. Funnily enough I wasn't that impressed with the film the first time around but I watched it again and picked up on a lot of things which I didn't get the first time around. I recommend that you do watch this again if you have already seen it as, knowing what happens, it is great to see how clever it is and how the story unravels.