A great ironic horror satire that succeeds brilliantly

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 1999)

Scream could have been a disaster. First of all to all of you out there who cannot understand how it wasnt scary enough, Scream is a horror spoof. It makes fun of everything to do with horror. It makes fun of the acting, directors and basicly the whole ideas. It COULD have been a disaster if it wasn't handled by a genius who knew the genre well and had a unique talent for moving swiftly between edge-of-the-seat action to ironic humour at its blackest. Now the humour is very funny and the irony makes it funnier (Sidney says if a movie was made about her "they'd probably cast Tori Spelling" and in the sequel in the movie Stab based on the Woodsboro incident the star is Miss Tori Spelling!!) So basically it comes down to this. Scream is an amazing achievment. Its a great original idea from a great script by Williamson and Craven handles it like a master. A grade A movie.