Thursday, August 30, 2018

Scream (1996)


IMDb plot summary: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.
Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, and Courteney Cox.

Oh, this is a lot of fun. The Scream mask has been so present in pop culture it isn't as scary as I wanted it to be, but the phone calls from the killer are scripted with a delicious sense of creepiness, and I love that. The ending is so fun and campy and meta and totally works. It's a fun one.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Scream > Captain Fantastic
Scream > Marty
Scream < Black Panther
Scream > Hard Candy
Scream < Evil
Scream > Cats and Dogs
Scream < Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Scream < Cats
Scream > Sorry to Bother You
Scream < The Virgin Spring

Final spot: #480 out of 2837.

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