We have us a conundrum here!

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2008)

It's a wonder what going into a movie with no expectations will do for you. This is the much lauded Scream, the so-called "smash hit that transformed horror into a phenomenon" (an obvious lie, but whatever), and I don't think it's half bad at all. This is of course, ridiculously deplorable and deporably ridiculous, but it knows it is, and it is very, very entertaining while being such.
Scream takes its cues from Halloween, Friday the 13th and its three sequels, and it doesn't hide that fact, even playing Halloween on screen in the movie - allowing for a rather humorous twist towards the end, heh. This pretty much follows the blueprint of all the cheesy 80s splatter/serial killer movies there ever were, but it doesn't screw up.
There's little here that you haven't seen already if you love these dumb 80s slashers, but if that is the case, then what's one more to add to the pile? Scream may be stupid, but it isn't a bad movie at all. Recommended.