scream is one of the best slasher films o date

Rating: 9/10 (27 November 2015)

Going into the viewing of this movie, after watching 2-3 horror movies previously, I had a certain picture in my head of what a horror movie would consist of. After viewing the movie Scream, I was surprised to say the least. Not only is this movie completely different from the basic horror slasher films, but it is different in a way that pleases the audience. While this movie does have the same characteristics, such as the tropes and the last girl who survives, it also has numerous unforeseen plot twists and a humorous aspect. While in previous horror films, whether I had seen them previous to watching them in my college class or not, there is a well known killer in each (ie, Michael Myers in Halloween, Freddy Kruger in Nightmare on Elm Street), we don't have this in Scream. Scream starts off with a teenage girl being alone in her home making popcorn and receiving a phone call that soon turns intensifying. This call thus leads into the death of the girl's boyfriend and her own death while her parents are merely a couple feet away. The film transitions to the girl's high school, where things are chaotic over the death of these two people. Fear sets in and people are on edge at all times, even with the constant police presence. While seeing all this chaos at the school we meet the main character, Sydney, who we meet in a scene where her boyfriend sneaks in her window, is the virginal character. The movie continues to strike fear in the audience when we hear the phone ring and we see the killer attack Sydney. Throughout the movie there are many plot twists but the ultimate plot twist is when we figure out who the killer(s) are and what their motives were for killing all those people. Also, this movie was a good start to many, now famous, actors and actresses careers. While this made things a little less scary for me, as I am familiar with Matthew Lillard playing Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movies and Courtney Cox from Friends, it made me more interested to watch the movie as I knew the people in it. Overall, this movie will definitely be one of, if not my number one, favorite horror film.