"The Little Twists Are Not Enough"

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 2004)

Before seeing this movie, all I could remember hearing was how frighteningly original it was. The success of B-Movies like this can be attributed, in part, to their socko advertising campaigns. In reality, the film is not very original. Actually, it's not a very good movie, period. It's the usual fare--physically perfect teenagers are lined up for slaughter in the knife wielding hands of an immortal mass-murderer. That's it. That's the plot for which Kevin Williamson deserves an academy award for best screenwriter, and Wes Craven for best director. Later, Williamson--who hereafter shall be referred to as Scribe Wunderkind--went on to achieve even greater fame with his equally horrible script for _Halloween H20_.
Slasher fans will embrace this movie for its gore effects. If you're a traditional horror fan like myself, there's not much here for you; if _Scream_ was intended to be a parody, then it succeeded beyond Craven's wildest dreams because it is not scary. For scary, you must go to John Carpenter, who already explored this territory definitively--even brilliantly--in 1978.