Quite a feat, delightfully genre-bending.

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 1998)

Director Wes Craven, and writer Kevin Williamson have quite effectively bended horror genre conventions to create a clever, tight, suspense-filled film. Just as the audience believes they know what is about the occur, the filmmakers twist you in the opposite direction. The protagonist, Sidney Prescott, differs from the norm as a horror heroine in that she has dealt with trauma in her past, and is smart and strong, definately not your typical screamer. Clues as to who the antogonist is are dropped throughout the film, but in such a way the audience wanders down the wrong path consistantly until the final revelation in the last reel. Scores above any other horror film in recent memory.