Scream

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Summary: THE ORIGINAL IS ALWAYS BEST
Review: This has to be the definitive horror film of the 1990's. Although it was influenced by many slasher flicks of the 70's and 80's (HALLOWEEN, PROM NIGHT, FRIDAY THE 13TH, etc) it still remains a fresh new horror film in it's own right. It brings the quality that all of the old slasher films,(people getting killed left, right and centre, by someone in a mask and a really big knife) along with many of it's own. Namely it's comedy.

The direction is good from Craven, but it is helped immensely from Kevin Williamson's witty script. The perfomances throughout are very strong, but it's Jamie Kennedy as movie geek Randy who comes up trumps, stealing all the prime lines from the leading lady Neve Campbell.

Scream 2 and 3 don't even come to close to this masterpiece. Like Jamie Lee Curtis once said "the original is always best".

It has been imitated several times in the years that followed namely I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!, VALENTINE and HALLOWEEN H:20. But these films have never been quiet able to recreate the magic of SCREAM.

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Summary: Awsome Movie!
Review: This is a clever film! All the characters are funny and very likable. I was most impacted by Stu's performance (Matthew Lillard) he is so funny in mostly everything he does but this one was great! I thought the actors/ actresses did and awsome job.
The basic idea of the story was captaviting and funny.

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Summary: A "Satire"....Yeah Right
Review: Of all the pop culture flicks in the past ten years, this is one of the worst! Then Wes Craven goes and makes a trilogy out of it. MORON! The hardcore fans of Scream will claim its a clever satire, when in fact the comedy feel to the movie derives not from satiristic intent, but rather from its trying to be a hip teen flick. Its characters apply to every stereotypical teenager. There is a tough guy (Ulrich), a movie nerd (Kennedy), a hot innocent girl (Campbell) , a hot slut type (Mcgowan), a funny cool guy (Lillard), and theres even one of normal guys whos trying to get with a hot girl whose out of his league (Arquette and Cox). The script is as sterotypical as the characters. The average 14 year old girl will tell me that they never knew what was going to happen in this "clever" script, when it is in fact as expected as its two ridiculous sequels. The killers are magical Wizards. Even if its impossible for them to pop out, they do- just like their sequels. I could call this movie a failure, but its not. Craven accomplishes exactly what he is trying to- ridiculous pop horror flick that will get him a bigger office and a higher budget for his next films. The fact that this shamless garbage provoked several others of its kind (I Still Know What You Did, Scary Movie, Final Destination, Urban Legends...the list goes on)makes it even worse!!

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Summary: Not a horror movie, just a teen comedy with much sex & blood
Review: For me, "Scream" is just a gore, teen, stupid, oversexed and horribly overrated version of John Carpenter's classic, "Halloween". More than a homage, it's a copy. Remember: 'Go to the McKenzie's house, call the police'. Doesn't this remind you something? Sure it does! There's nothing new in this movie, nothing at all. The main characters are just pretty, baby-faced and very willing fans of horror movies who don't ask for much else but getting stabbed and the killer's suit is grotesque, making him look more like a mental creep than a ghost (and ridiculized by the Wayans Brothers in their raving film, "Scary Movie" - Wazaaaaaah!) And what about the killer himself, what about his personality, his UNIVERSE? We're pretty far away from "Seven", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and also "Halloween" where Michael Myers becomes a killer only at the age of 6, and loses his humanity after a 15-year stay in a psychiatric hospital. In "Scream", young Billy Loomis turns suddenly into a mass killer and guess why? Only because his father betrayed his mother, who moved away and abandoned him! For a serial killer, the motive is very thin, and for me, it's not enough...

The ending is disappointing, if not ridiculous. All those characters who get killed but come back, just because they're 'good', as a matter of fact it makes them unhuman, look like Michael Myers himself, some kind of undestroyable people, and this is dangerous and no good... That female reporter who crashes in her van but comes back to save Sidney just in time, that goofy teenager who gets shot in the chest but comes back to life just in front of Sidney, in perfect condition, that police officer who's stabbed in the back but is found alive, on a stretcher... what d'you want me to say? This happy ending's too big to be honest. In "Halloween", Michael Myers is the only one to come back, because he's not human any more, the others die for good, they won't be coming back, and that's logical. "Scream" is maybe a homage, but it's abusive and not logical. And that's why it's disappointing and, above all, a nuisance for kids.

The only positive element of this failure is an astounding young actor, Skeet Ulrich. The rest is no new and no good. "Scream" is the movie that not only (re)started the horror movie fashion in the 90s, but also started the teen - stupid and immature - movie style itself. Such horrible movies like "American Pie", "Not another teen Movie" or "Harvard Man" wouldn't have been made without "Scream".

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Summary: Scream Is A Real Masterpiece!
Review: It gave birth to a series of horrible movies (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legends) but watch it. It's a very clever, funny, exciting, and YES, scary movie. I mean can you watch that very beggining scene with Drew Barrymore, in your basement, at mid-night, and not be scared? That scene's a real masterpiece, and kicks the movie to a very fast start instead of wasting time on nothing.

Don't get me wrong, the movie is really fast paced, but it's got great character development. Each character in this movie is well developed and realistic (I'm not kidding).

The plot isn't quite your usual "stupid scary movie with lots of hot girls showing their breasts off and having sex while smoking pot and getting slaughtered by an unkillable, emotionless killer," no. Scream has a plot. A year ago, Sydney Prescott's (Neve Campbell) mother (Lynn Mcree) was brutally raped and muredered. Sydney fingers Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber), and why shouldn't she? She saw him leave wearing his bloody coat and all evidence points to him. However, when Steven Orith (Kevin Patrick Walls), and his girlfriend Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) pop up dead late one night, and Sydney's friends start dropping dead, she begins to suspect that maybe she fingered an innocent man, and her mother's killer is still on the loose. But, who's the killer?

Scream co-stars W.Earl Brown, Courteney Cox (Courteney Cox Arquette), David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Joseph Whipp, Jamie Kennedy, and and cameos by Wes Craven, and Linda Blair.

I know I said this movie isn't just sex, nudity, murder, and gore, but it delivers in some areas (don't get all excited, no nudity). There's a truckload of gore (even more if you can get the director's cut) and lots more guts then I had expected to be in a movie of today. The death scenes are elaborate, well staged and exciting. Even better, we actually care about the teens in this movie. They're likable because they all know that they're in a horror movie and the "rules."

The cast is excellent, each actor does great. Neve Campbell does sympathetic teen really well, Rose McGowan (as her friend with a variety of skimpy outfits, Tatum) does great. The off-beat boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) is played well. All the other actors are great, but it could take hours describing them all here.

kevin Williamson really did great with his script here. He doesn't think to much of himself like he does now, and givers the movie a never ending energy. Wes Craven (A Nightmare On Elm Street) brings the film to life vividly and I wasn't bored for a second. No dought he helped all the actors in looking scared (marvelously) and the opening with Drew Barrymore must be seen to be believed. That's what I call scary!

The DVD (Dimension Collector's Series) is a keeper, despite having some minor problems. One of the (minor) problems is the non-anamorphic transfer. Being an owner of a widescreen TV, this annoys me, but the picture is still genuinely good. It's crystal clear and free of blemishes and grain. It just would have been better with an anamorphic transfer. Still, good picture quality. The second problem is that the version on the DVD is the original theatrical version, and not the director's cut mentioned above. There isn't to much of a difference, but there's more guts, blood, and gore in the unrated version. Just a little problem, again. Nothing extreme.

Those problems are basically nothing when you come to the good stuff about the disk. The great commentary by Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven (also on the earlier disk) is here, and it's a real pleasure. I've listened to it several times and still get a kick out of it. They both seem at ease and point out interesting facts I never noticed about the movie. Other features are two trailers (red band and green band) and over five TV spots. there's a short production featurette and a behind the scenes thing that's interesting. There's a cool special effects gallery. Also, you can ask two questions with the cast and crew ("Why are people so fascinated by horror movies?" and "What's your favorite scary movie?"). There's also a "Did You Know" section that gives out some interesting facts. A nice array of special features.

The films remastered in a booming, beautiful 5.1 surround sound that will please all. Dialouge is clear and easy to understand and the action sequences are loud and exciting.

Scream's great. I am not ashamed to like it. It's one of my favorite movies and I find it clever and witty. Forget those people who diss this movie and see the masterpiece (the Oscars for 1996 really missed this one). Also, the two sequels are almost just as good. I'd recommend getting the box set (I own it, and love it) because it has an exclusive Collector's Edition of Scream 2 and a bonus fourth disk. It's well priced, too.

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Summary: 'SCREAM' TOPS THEM ALL
Review: After years of not being able to see the movie (because of my age) and hearing stories about it, I finally had the chance to see it. Just watching the best part of the movie, the opening scene with Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker, made me want more and more of that - and thats what I got! The whole movie is filled suspensful moments and suprising outcomes! You have got to see this movie, reguardless of the negative things people say about this movie. You surely will not be disappointed.

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Summary: SCREAM
Review: THIS MOVIE WAS RELEASE IN 1996. THIS MOVIE WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SOMEONE WHO ENJOYS THRILLING,DRAMATIC,MYSTERY,OR HORROR MOVIES. THE FIRST TIME I WATCH IT WAS AT MY HOUSE, I USUALLY WATCH IT EVERYDAY LIKE FOR 2 STRAIGHT WEEKS.THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT SOMEONE WHO IS KILING IN A SMALLTOWN AND NO ONE HAS IDEA WHO IT IS. AS THE MOVIE GOES ON THE PEOPLE START SUSPECTING EACH OTHER,THEY BUT DONT REALLY KNOW WHO IT IS. AT THE END OF THE MOVIE THEY FIND OUT WHO IT WAS AND YOU WILL GET SHOCKED TO SEE WHO IT WAS. SOME ACTORS WHO STAR IN THIS FILM ARE: COURTNEY COX,DAVID ARQUETT,NEVE CAMPWELL,AND SKE UCHIRUSH. I THINK YOU WILL ENJOY THIS FILM IF YOU ARE A HORROR LOVER . I REALLY DID LIKE THIS FILM I HOPE SO DO YOU

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Summary: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Review: In 1996 this film was released. This film was really commercial
and made people go to see it because horror films hadn't actually been doing well since Candyman in 1992. Well when I wen't to see it back in 97 at the age of 12 with my sister I was so excited. I was not disapointed but I didn't think it was that scary. I saw it again a few months later and it wasn't scary then either.
I saw it a few times more and then I started buying other Horrorfilms and then I realized. This film isn't that goood.
It is not really scary and the film containes some of the most ridicilous acting talents and script. But it is very entertaining but that is it. I Know What You Did Last Summer was released a year after this one. And a lot of teen horror. The films were all terrible and try to live up to the sucess Scream had but didn't.
This was the same thing with Clueless. But Horror Films to day are terrible thanks to this movie and Scream has got to be the film that ruined the Horror gengre forever. The sequals are bad and ridicolous. I don't know what Wes Craven was thinking and a year after this one he produced the terrible Whismaster (a terrible B-Movie).

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Summary: So, so, so, so good!
Review: How i love this film, and the many films which it spawned. ( Scream2, Scream3, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. plus others) This film is better than Screams2/3, and even they were pretty dang good!

This film has a cracker of a plot and a great cast. (Although i don't really know what all the fuss is about about Neve Campbell. She's not half as attractive as Jennifer Love-Hewitt) It is full of mystery, excitement, and, screams.

I love it. I love this genre. It may not be your high-class film full of social commentary and important messages hidden within the plot (although i'm sure some people would indeed argue that it is. and they would find no real argument here) but nonetheless it is an excellent film. I have never had such fun watching a film. When i go to the cinema, or rent/buy a video from the store, i am looking primarily for enjoyment. A film which will entertain me and keep me riveted and excited. As such, this film is fits the mold perfectly. There is little doubt that films such as this are just fun fun fun all the way. You just sit back, let it all wash over you, and enjoy the enthralling ride every twist of the way.

as well as being a hugely entertaing film, it is one which pays some kind of homage to all films in this genre which have gone before. At the same time, it lightly makes fun of itself, and is full of irony. It is just so enjoyable. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and is completely unpretentious (i HATE pretentious movies)

I can't get over how fun and enjoyable this movie is (you can probably tell, as i can't stop telling you) anyway, just rest assured that if you see this movie, cast aside all expectations of a clever and serious movie, and just enjoy!

The acting is great (especially Courtney Cox's sterling performance), and the plot is a stunner. It moves along at such a fast pace that you hardly have enough time to stop and think. It's chilling, creepy, disturbing, and fun, all at the same time!

And the ending, what a one! A perfect climax. Tense, shocking, full of twists. I could watch it again and again. The last frame is great as well. it caps the movie off perfectly. ANd im not evne going to start on the brilliant theme music at the credits.

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Summary: Superb and highly entertaining slasher.
Review: The small town of Woodsboro is in unrest after a brutal double-murder, and Neve Campbell is the next target. The good cast, effective stalk-and-slash sequences, and a fun double-twist ending make this hip, self-conscious slasher one of Wes Craven's best and most entertaining films. The last half-hour, set during a party inside an otherwise normal two-story house, is a knockout sequence of suspense, humor, and surprises.