the beginning of the end

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2001)

Scream is a pretty good horror movie but the problem isnt in the film it lies with the treatment of how the american public overhyped this movie and how suits milked it for all it was worth. One scream makes fifteen other imitations. It is a self aware version of teenagers who know how to survive cheesy horror movies. The film opens with the impressive Drew Barrymore scene and soon we are taken into the life of Sydney prescott. A masked killer taunts her as every cliche in the horror vault is examined. It's ok and if people accepted it for what it was instead of making it overblown it would be long remembered. Rose McGowan is very sexy in her role. Too bad she gets a stupid death. ***