Only your average slasher movie.

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2001)

I saw Scream only because I had to analyse it for an essay. I had avoided it up 'till then because I had thought it would be just your average slasher movie. I was wrong. It was a failed attempt to parody a slasher movie.
Firstly, it didn't frighten me at all. Maybe it's not my kind of horror, but I still jumped in Halloween. There was just no atmosphere in the film, and the attempts at parodying the genre only served to lessen the impact of the film. Not that the jokes were all that funny, unless you were actually paying attention to any of it.
The whole motive thing was a severe let-down. I ended up having to ask my friends why they did it because I thought I missed it in all the talking. When they told me I thought 'Wasn't that just an excuse to go around killing some teenagers with no real plot in mind?'
I never rate a film awful because they all have something to offer, and Scream does. There are some good moments in it and some smart directing in it, yet its best attribute is probably giving Scary Movie something to make fun out of.