The Re-birth of Slashers

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2005)

A welcome return of the Slasher movies, which started out in the 80's with such titles as Friday The 13th, Halloween movies and etc, which fizzled out during the late eighties, but in 1996 came Scream and the re-birth of the Slashers came back spawning several imitations.
The movie starts off with Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) alone in the house, making popcorn and getting ready to watch a video, when she starts getting menaced by phone calls from the killer. Casey then realizes the killer has her boyfriend tied up outside and she has to answers questions to stay alive but when she fails he gets gutted and the killer strikes and comes after Casey, stabbing her cruelly 7 times then hanging her up outside with a piece of swing rope against a tree for her parents to see.
This was a brilliant opening to the movie and Drew Barrymore plays it down to a te as the terrified victim.
We then meet the main character Sydney Prescott played wonderfully by Neve Campbell, the lead heroine, we see her alone in her and getting a visit from her boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), then it cuts to the school and we meet her friends Tatum Riley (Rose McGowen), Stu Marcher (Matthew Lillard) and Randy Meeks played brilliantly by Jamie Kennedy as the horror nut and the love slave of Sidney.
The movie just keeps getting better and better after the cool opening, and down to the final climax between killer and heroine.
The case are excellent, Courtney Cox is great as the bitchy Gale Weathers, the reporter you love to hate and David Arquette is also great as Dewey Riley.
The kills are quite effective in this movie, girl gets gutted at the beginning, another girl gets her head crushed by a garage door, a guy gets a TV on his head and even the Principal gets it.
Overall a welcome return to slashers.