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Dec 21, 2016 · His extensive knowledge of horror almost narrates the movie, schooling audiences on the conventions of horror and then flouting clichés. The decision to include a comedian meant that at many points they could inject humour and satire, something horrors rarely ever did up until that point.
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Oct 26, 2021 · Where Scream’s aim was to use the horror genre against itself, Get Out used horror to illustrate and explain aspects of modern racism.
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Scream works thanks to Williamson’s inventive script influenced by a series of murders carried out by the Gainesville Ripper. His core idea revolved around a woman who is home alone and tormented by a masked killer. This ended up being the famous opening scene of Scream, with the rest of the film focusing on high schooler Sidney Prescott (Neve Camp...
What set Scream apart from every other mundane horror released at the time was Williamson’s playful script that blatantly encompassed well-known horror tropes. Early films of the genre from the ’70s and ’80s laid the blueprint for horror films concerning groups of kids being picked off one by one by some kind of crazed, unstoppable murderer. The ch...
Coined by professor and writer Carol J Clover, the expression “Final Girl” is used to describe the last woman left alive in a horror film that has survived by following the horror rules outlined in Scream. Unlike the majority of similar films where the damsel in distress is often a passive, timid female who manages to survive due to sheer luck rath...
Despite a moderate budget of $15 million, Scream went on to become a box office smash when it hit theatres during the summer of 1996. While producers were worried after it made a paltry $6 million during its opening weekend, they needn’t have – it went on to gross a massive $173 million worldwide. Scream re-invigorated horror films – at that time o...
Dec 20, 2021 · Twenty-five years ago, Wes Craven’s bloody, witty meta-horror film hit theaters and reinvigorated multiple genres. Here’s how the iconic movie was made.
Oct 14, 2023 · The first Scream film hit theaters in 1996 and rejuvenated the struggling horror genre in many iconic (and ironic) ways.
Dec 20, 2021 · Works like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legend were vastly influenced by Scream’s brand of meta-horror, indicating that the sensibilities of the genre had shifted for good.
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Dec 20, 2016 · Twenty years after Scream's release, the film's effect can still be felt within in the horror genre. Said genre is always reinventing itself, attempting new ways at tackling conventions.
