A change for the horror genre

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2005)

"Scream" is completely entertaining and totally terrifying. In a time when horror was losing its touch, Kevin Williamson wrote this clever script and Wes Craven brought it to life beautifully, reinventing the modern slasher and still remaining better than most of the films that followed it.
Neve Campbell is Sydney Prescott, a shy girl who's life is turned upside down when somebody begins murdering her friends. In comes Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) and a hilarious reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox, the best character in the film) to investigate the murders and stay alive.
The movie is funny and scary, with homages to famous older horror classics the entire way through, and the climax is excellently tense. A horror movie that started a legacy.