truly clever

Rating: 9/10 (24 March 1999)

Scream is NOT your average teenage slasher flick. Granted, it is responsible for the flood of cheesy teenage flicks which annoy me greatly, but Scream is definitely different. You can give Scream credit for injecting some much needed life into the horror genre, and credit that to the geniuses of Craven and Williamson. This film successfully satirizes just about every horror cliche, while maintaining a very scary plot at the same time. You can either watch this movie as a straight horror flick, which it is very good at being, or you can watch it as a very entertaining look at the history of the genre as well as a look at where the future of the genre is headed. The bottom line is that Scream is the most clever horror film to come out in a long, long time. Hitchcock would be proud.