Scary Movie

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2011)

Of course Scary Movie was the working title of this Wes Craven vehicle, which got hijacked by the Wayans to make their spoof of this (and other Horror movies of that time). Craven also had made the latest (til then that is) Nightmare movie, called "New Nightmare". It was the first one that got into the whole "we are aware this is a movie, while we're doing it", but wasn't as successful as the Scream movies became. Even though it was a success in America it did take almost a year to come out in Germany for example.
And while the movie "plays" with rules and has fun with it, it is also pretty scary. Of course friends of mine didn't like the fact, that it tried to be funny and scary. Some people like their horror movies to be straight and not fourth-wall breaking. But this one is really a great example how to do it. It also helped Kevin Williamson to become famous (at least for awhile, he worked with Robert Rodriguez - Faculty) and Wes Craven to be "hot" once again.
As you can see, I have not really written anything about the movie yet. I won't really tell you what it is about, but I will dare you to watch it, if you dig horror comedies. Hopefully before you watch the spoof that is called "Scary Movie" ...