Scream

Rating: Null/10 (30 March 2000)

A maniac serial killer with an extensive knowledge of horror films begins to murder the habitants of a small town.
A knowing, ironic, often repellent slasher movie that succeeds on being both funny and frightening, and never becomes predictable despite its constant self-parodying. Towards the end, however, it goes way over the top in both gore and hysteria, and it is difficult to describe what influence it exerted on its audience.