Scream - Collector's Series

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Summary: you can never have sex in a horror movie ?
Review: tenage flick about serial killer's dressing up in the most amazing costume and draining victims one by one, a girl named sidney has had problems since her mum died in a brutel death, a year later when sidney is about to forget the death of her mother more murders simular to her mums death happens, when mr ghost killer is after her, she starts to belive that the person in the costume is the person who killed her mother, the end of the movie end's in a bit of a stupid way but the begening starts very nice and gory{a film for our collections}my advice to you is to buy this movie as soon as possible.

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Summary: Whats your favorite Scary Movie
Review: Scream was the most amazing movie in the 90's horror genre Wes Craven the director picked a bunch of fresh faces and put them together to make a scary movie which would surpass all the 90's horror movies. The movie starts out as a young teenager Casey Becker is recieving threatining phone calls from someone anonymous. He then takes her boyfriend and gives her a question to answer and if she gets it right her boyfriend lives and if she gets it wrong he dies. Even if she gets it right she is still gonna become a freakin shikabob. After she gets it wrong the maniac kills her boyfriend and stabs her a lot of times. and hangs her from an oak tree in there backyard where her parents find her shgortly after. The next scene is where you see the main character, Sidney Prescott, she is a young teen who's mother was killed almost a year ago. She has a boyfriend billy and a best friend Tatum. There is also the tabloid twit Gale Weathers who is making up a buch of stories about Sidney just to get book sales. there is also Tatum's brother Dewey he is a police officer for the county. Most of the story is Sidney's Family and Friends trying to escape this Psychotic freak and end these murders once and for all solving this myster will be murder.

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Summary: A HALF DECENT SCARE MOVIE
Review: But once again actors in their mid-to-late twenties are playing teenagers and the effect of the film is totally ruined as they behave and act so unrealistic. While most people may consider this a cool movie just because of the scares and the over-hyped "irony" there is actually an intelligent plot with a pretty good twist. I notice this more as I am a writer and this is one of my fave horror/thrillers.

I advise you not to watch this for the pumped up scares (to a very loud soundtrack) but for how a typical "who's the killer?" plotline can be a little better than it is believed to be.

Some of the characters can be really annoying. In fact the only one that doesn't enrage me is Dewey. His idiotness makes me laugh and diverts my attention from the other characters in the very slow "character building scenes".

The direction and photography are very bland. Wes Craven did a much better job of a real horror film with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Here it just seems as if he aiming at the teen/popcorn market. You'll notice that, with these kind of movies, most of the characters (not actors) are teenagers and the tone of the film is mostly "safe". In the Scream "sub-genre" there is never any REAL edge.

After this movie was made, many, increasing bad, movies that were all exactly the same rolled off a conveyor belt in Hollywood. They were easy moneymakers. Craven knew this beforehand but deep, intelligent movies do not sit well with mass audiences. The blander the style of film is, the more popular it will be with the majority of audiences.

The plot in this one redeems these bad qualities. I just wish for a real horror film to come out of Hollywood.

The DVD is in Dolby 5.1 and is letterboxed at 2.35:1. It is also NOT the more gory directors cut I mistakenly believed it to be.

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Summary: :: applause!:: Great movie! ::applause!::
Review: An EXCELLENT film in all aspects for the average horror-lover. The plot is unique and enticing, with lots of twists and turns, the acting is top-notch, TONS of suspense and scares, lots of comedic relief, all wound into one cleverly fiendish movie. Neve Campbell shines as Sidney, and David Arquette is hilarious as Dewey Riley. 5 stars, A+, the BEST!

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Summary: I liked it.........
Review: Wes Craven's ``Scream'' violates one of the oldest rules in movie history: It's about characters who go to the movies. They've even heard of movie stars. They refer by name to Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Jamie Lee Curtis. They analyze motivations (``Did Norman Bates have a motive? Did Hannibal Lecter have a reason for wanting to eat people?'')

True, they went to the movies in ``The Last Picture Show,'' and the heroes of ``Clerks'' worked in a video store. Even Bonnie and Clyde went to the movies. But those movies were about the *act* of going to the movies. ``Scream'' is about *knowledge* of the movies: The characters in ``Scream'' are in a horror film, and because they've seen so many horror films, they know what to do, and what not to do. ``Don't say `I'll be right back,' '' one kid advises a friend, ``because whenever anybody says that, he's *never* right back.''

In a way, this movie was inevitable. A lot of modern film criticism involves ``deconstruction'' of movie plots. ``Deconstruction'' is an academic word. It means saying what everybody knows about the movies in words nobody can understand. ``Scream'' is self-deconstructing; it's like one of those cans that heats its own soup.

Instead of leaving it to the audience to anticipate the horror cliches, the characters talk about them openly. ``Horror movies are always about some big-breasted blond who runs upstairs so the slasher can corner her,'' says a character in ``Scream.'' ``I hate it when characters are that stupid.''

The movie begins, of course, with a young woman (Drew Barrymore) at home alone. She gets a threatening phone call from an evil Jack Nicholson soundalike. She is standing in front of patio doors with the dark night outside. She goes into a kitchen where there are lots of big knives around. You know the drill.

Later, we meet another young woman (Neve Campbell). Her father has left for the weekend. Her mother was murdered . . . why, exactly a year ago tomorrow! Her boyfriend climbs in through the window. At high school, rumors of cult killings circulate. The killer wears a spooky Halloween costume named ``Father Death.'' There are more phone calls, more attacks. The suspects include the boyfriend, the father, and a lot of other people. A nice touch: The high school principle is The Fonz.

All of that is the plot. ``Scream'' is not about the plot. It is about itself. In other words, it is about characters who *know* they are in a plot. These characters read Fangoria magazine. They even use movie-style dialogue: ``I was attacked and nearly filleted last night.''

The heroine has been rejecting her boyfriend's advances, and just as well: As another character points out, virgins are never victims in horror films. Only bad boys and girls get slashed to pieces. Realizing they're in the midst of a slasher plot, the characters talk about who could play them: ``I see myself as sort of a young Meg Ryan. But with my luck, I'll get Tori Spelling.''

The movie itself, for all of its ironic in-jokes, also functions as a horror film--a bloody and gruesome one, that uses as many cliches as it mocks.

One old standby is the scene where someone unexpectedly enters the frame, frightening the heroine, while a sinister musical chord pounds on the soundtrack. I love these scenes, because (a) the chord carries a message of danger, but (b) of course the unexpected new person is always a harmless friend, and (c) although we can't see the newcomer because the framing is so tight, in the real world the frightened person would of course be able to see the newcomer all the time.

The movie is also knowledgeable about the way TV reporters are portrayed in horror films. The reporter this time, played by Courteney Cox of ``Friends,'' asks wonderful questions, such as ``How does it feel to almost be the victim of a slasher?'' Savvy as she is, she nevertheless suggests to a local deputy that they shouldn't drive to an isolated rural setting when it's a nice night to walk down a deserted country road in the dark while a slasher is loose.

What did I think about this movie? As a film critic, I liked it. I liked the in-jokes and the self-aware characters. At the same time, I was aware of the incredible level of gore in this film. It is *really* violent.

Is the violence defused by the ironic way the film uses it and comments on it? For me, it was. For some viewers, it will not be, and they will be horrified.

Which category do you fall in? Here's an easy test: When I mentioned Fangoria, did you know what I was talking about?

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Summary: Ehh......
Review: I know I typed a review for this several months back, and I liked it. But it seems the more time goes by, the less I like it. I really can't explain why. It ain't the gore (i am a huge fan of celebrity deathmatch). It ain't the one scene where the guys throat gets slit. (i can take that stuff!) I DID see Scary Movie though, which really put it to shame. Scary Movie rules!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I don't know why, but it just isn't as appealing anymore. The Scream 3 soundtrack was awesome though.

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Summary: yep yep.
Review: This movie is special since it highlights on the old cliches of all horror films past. Entertaining, often funny...and utterly disgusting. Some parts, and plot lines are just a bit too convienient. Overall it was a lot of fun.

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Summary: Do you wana DIE Tonight?
Review: Unfortunetly I saw Scream 2 before I saw Scream, so I knew who the killer/killers was/were. Even so I was still surprised by seeing who was the next to drop. The Movie starts out with Drew Barrymore making popcorn and the phone rings and it's a person out to try to kill her. He has her boyfriend outside tied up and asks her trivia questions about scary movies. I don't want to give away the end of that though. The next day at school the cops and reporters (one of which is Cortney Cox, later name is Cortney Cox Archect) are all around because of the incident the night before. Through the movie Cidney Prescout(Neve Cambell) is being terrorized by a killer. She starts to suspect her boyfriend Billy Lumous. Her friend Randy explanes the rules to survive a horror movie. Later at a party the tention builds up some much until the movie ends. So watch this movie; it's the begining of a great Triligy.

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Summary: Scary, Clever, and Fun!
Review: I found Scream to be an enjoyable spoof on the horror genre. In Scream, we meet Sydney, a young girl who is being hunted down by a horror-movie obsessed killer. Keeping the "rules of a horror movie" in mind, Sydney is determined to keep away from this psycho-killer, but can she? With clever dialogue and thrilling sequences, Scream is a winner, MUCH better than Wes Craven's next movie, Wishmaster...ugh, don't let me get started on that one! So my advice to you is to get this funny, scary, and highly likeable flick from the creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

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Summary: The Scream Trilogy
Review: This movie is the beginning to unargueably the best movie trilogy of all time. It is one of the only movie trilogys and a very good one. If anyone can name a better one than I want you to e-mail me at [e-mail] If anyone can even think of a sequal as good as scream 2 and 3 (besides godfather part 2 an academy award winning exception) than I want you tell me. Again my e-mail address is [e-mail] thank you