I Must Have Seen a Different Scream

Rating: 3/10 (11 May 2014)

With the opening scene causing more questions than answers, especially for a NON-comedy, I come into the movie not really understanding the tone, the atmosphere, or the plot.
The first death is very interesting, because they actually take into consideration the physicality of death, albeit very briefly when Barrymore can't speak because her lung is punctured. However, it quickly fades into 'Really?' for me, from the parents being able to hear their daughters moans when the phone is held in an outstretched arm, to the rest of the entire film being completely slapstick and silly.
For those who call this move original, it DOES do something most horror movies try to NOT do, which is be fairly fake, flat, and uninteresting. I guess not having watched this in my teen years but really WANTING to have watched it when my older sister saw it with her friends, this movie was hyped up to me, with mental images of red filtered scenes of people falling to their deaths, screaming as they did so, to a much more artful process (must like Kill Bill, actually) than this was.
It is mildly entertaining, but not what I generally look for with a movie that is SUPPOSED to be scary.