Pure Crap

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2002)

I didn't think one film could so blatantly RIP OFF Halloween more, but Scream has done it. This film attempts to work around its stolen ideas from such classics as Halloween and When a Stranger Calls by calling it an "homage" - that is hardly what this is. Scream did not "revive" horror, nor did it do anything for the genre. Horror has always been alive, and this sorry excuse (posing as a "thriller" no less) is nothing more than Kevin Williamson's little "how do I make it into movies by stealing good ideas from other movies?" flick that does not deserve the attention it has gotten. Williamson further desecrated the genre by giving us the treatment for Halloween H20, which was basically Dawson's Creek meets a formerly good series and attempts to ruin it. Hopefully Halloween Resurrection will be decent, but with Dimension at the helm, I'm not expecting much. Congradulations Mr. Williamson - you're an inpiration for braindead teeny-boppers across the country!!!!! 0 out of 10....................