Scream single-handedly resuscitated the teen slasher genre for the media-saturated 1990s.

Rating: 9/10 (2 September 2010)

In Scream a cine-literate serial killer stalks and murders a series of teenage girls. The film revitalized the slasher film genre in the late 1990s, similar to the impact Halloween (1978) had on late 1970s film, by using a standard concept with a tongue-in-cheek approach that combined straightforward scares with dialogue that satirized slasher film conventions.
Scream is a 'meta' slasher film, and one which certainly knows whereof it shrieks, functioning as a superior example of the genre it's spoofing. The in-jokes will please fans; the only downside is that it's a little too pleased with itself. Following the film's success, two sequels were released in 1997 and 2000 respectively, and a third sequel is currently in production.