Started another horror trend.

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2000)

This movie started the third major horror movie trend. Psycho started the first, after a while people started to lose interest in the genre. It was brought back to life with Halloween which started another trend that was mainly made up of masked murders and gallons of gory makeup. Again that died down after a decade or so and then another trend was started by the movie Scream.
In the small town of Woodsboro, California, two gruesome murders were committed. A small group of teenagers all become suspects until their deaths. Sidney Prescott is the main target of this killer whose mother was butchered one year earlier.
I found this to be a really good movie. I think of it as a spoof of horror films. Then came Scary Movie which (Dennis Miller says) basically parodied the parody of horror films.
This movie also suffered the same effects that Halloween did. Halloween spawned the Friday the 13th movies and a bunch of other clones. This movie spawned I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legends, Disturbing Behavior and The Faculty and I thought they all sucked. Even Scream's sequels I didn't think were that great. So basically I thought Scream was good but anything(except H20)that came after went downhill.
This movie also contained a good cast. The extremely beautiful Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox give great performances. David Arquette, Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy provided the movies great sense of humor, which was one of it's stronger points. Skeet Ulrich gave kind of a creepy feeling to the movie I thought. Also the plot twists at the end were nice.
Another thing that made this movie great was it's good direction. One scene inparticular that I thought worked really well was the scene where Dewey was searching the house toward the end and heard screaming and it was none other than Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween on TV. I've never been a big Wes Craven fan but I give him credit for this movie's good direction.
If you don't hate horror movies, check this out. 8/10