So Much Fun It's Murder

Rating: 9/10 (26 April 2015)

Scream has a running theme of being really quite impressive and it works wonders on its audience of mostly fresh-faced and young cinephiles looking to be cynical and think outside the box. The nineties was good for horror, with the Ring, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Candyman and of course who could forget everyone's favourite Leprechaun, so what better time than to release Scream, which at the time was thinking so far out of the box that it really shocked a lot of people into realising just how vapid the genre was. It's cool to not be cool now, and Scream works. I love Scream because whilst its pitch-black humour, often intense gore, horror film references and almost self-parodical tone work on one level, it's still actually quite a scary film. If you haven't seen Scream, you're missing out.