Scream is a modern teenage-horror-classic

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2007)

Wes Craven's SCREAM quickly became a staple in modern horror history, the movie took everything we beloved from the 70ties slasher movies and turned it into a humoristic flick which contained just as much nerve and blood-spilling as its inspirations as HALLOWEEN and Friday THE 13TH. The teenage-setting of the 70ties movies may have been even more realistic, in a world where bad girls got punished by the killer for being naughty, and the "un-flowered-girls-will-be-killed" plot is just as intact here in SCREAM. The frights are dead-on, never being sloppy or clichéd, they are tightly directed killings that surely will get you blood pumping. Neve Campbell is great in the main role as Sydney, as she is the only one who truly manages to battle the killer (popular named "Ghostface"). And the movie was a groundbreaking take at the horror genre in the 90ties as the movie kick-started a bunch of teenage-slashers, making it a pioneer for exactly this genre for being both the first and being the best. SCREAM fits perfectly a Friday night with friends, as the movie is truly made for those teenage-gangs who're out for a fright, as it encounters them and faces them with its brutal slashing of themselves.