Great Suspense, not a Horror!!

Rating: Null/10 (15 May 2002)

There is not a fine line between Horror and Suspense or thriller, the line is big, and fat.. And Scream is by no means a horror.. A slasher, is a type of horror, the most extreme of horror, (lots of killings good to great death scenes, so on..) But a slasher is not a Suspense.. There are many types of Suspense, the average late 90's to 2000's movies with masked killers are in this category, Suspense/Thriller, a thriller is not a horror either, it is like, but simply is not.. How to tell the difference? Well here it is, When you know exactly who the killer is, if he has a mask or not, you know his name and who he is, and why he is killing, not so much the people in the movie all the time, but the viewer knows who he is and doesn't have to spend the entire movie guessing, than you have a horror, possibly a slasher.. When you do have to guess, and you have no idea who the killer is, when the movie as they would say "leaves you on the end of your seat".. ""What's going to happen next!!"" a mystery, where in the end everything comes undone and you find out who was doing the killings, "and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for these medaling kids!!" Than you have a Suspense/Thriller.. There wasn't enough blood to be a slasher anyways though, well maybe random blood, but not enough skin penetration.. Some say it brought the LONG DEAD teen slasher movies back.. Not true at all!! Horror movies are like Rock music "you can't kill rock n' roll". (ozzy Osbourne) they have never, nor will they ever die.. The curse of Michael Myers was made in 1995 one year before, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare in 1994, and Jason Goes To Hell in 1993, hell The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation was done in 1994, all horror slashers around the same time.. Scream was in 1996. What Scream did for Horror is what Kurt Cobain did for hairbands, it crushed them.. Horror will never be the same, music will never be the same.. Yet still they will both go on.. But sometimes change is good.. I liked the 80's hairbands, but I love some of the great music made today as well.. Same applies for movies.. I liked Scream a lot, it was the first time it looked at horror for what it is, how it was, and how real it can be.. You always see these movies and you think how stupid can these people be, the acting is bad, and you say if I were that person, I wouldn't make that stupid move!! But Maybe that's not true, maybe in panic we all make stupid mistakes, I mean when your watching something it easy to see what is wrong. But when you are the person doing it, when your under the pressure, you can't watch yourself and think about things.. You just do it, in life that is where mistakes are made. Think about it, if you have ever done something in life you wished you had not, I would bet you it wasn't something you spent time thinking about right? Cause if you had thought about it, you wouldn't have screwed up!! This movie was too confused as a horror because of the fact that it is about a bunch of teens, that think of life as a horror movie, they have the, you know,, the famous Jamie Kennedy "There are Certain Rules you must abide by to successfully make a horror movie!" But this doesn't make it a horror, it makes it a look at how a horror is made, kind of like a documentary, in a way.. I liked the guessing in this movie, and the fact that the killer was just a couple of teens them selves.. And it was a great first time movie, nothing beats watching it the first time.. I would say it was the best and the king of Suspense/Thriller!! And I also thought it was one of the funniest thrillers in a while.. "What are you going to tell your parents?"..."peer Pressure, I'm far too sensitive!" (Matthew Lillard).. It's a good movie and I would say you should rent it if you haven't seen it, but if you said you hadn't seen it, than you would be lying now wouldn't you!... In the Suspense/Thriller category I would give it 10 out of 10, because it was the first of it's kind.. In the horror I give it a 0..