Scream

Wes Anderson's best series of horror. I admire his ability to mock his own movies

i feel safe in officially declaring this film a classic of the slasher genre, aided largely by matthew lillard's masterful, oscar-worthy performance

Not just a dumb slasher film. Engaging and clever plot. Not very scary though.

Kick started the horror genre again all the way back in 1996. A great film, that knows it's a horror,yet still manages to be scary, funny and sarcastic. The first 15 minutes are truly brilliant.

As far as great horror movies go, "Scream" is without a doubt near the very top of the list. It's obvious self-awareness never overshadows it's scares and that's a balance that most horror films these days cannot achieve. Add in some expertly developed main characters and a clever script from Kevin Williamson, and you have yourself a great horror film. I just wish the sequels could live up to this one.

One of the greatest horror films of all time. Whilst i love Scream 2 and 4 and do like the third one, they became overly dependent on their post-modernist cultural commentary and increasingly comedic, which makes people lose sight of just how scary the first one actually was. Especially the opening scene which for me is the greatest opening scene in any horror film, ever. Incredibly quotable, memorable characters, intense, funny, and revived and re-defined a drowning genre. Scream is a classic.

Clever little horror movie that's also kind of funny but still just deranged enough to go "ooh!"

One of my favorite horror movies of all time

The movie that spawned a generation of annoying, 'wink-at-the-audience', tongue-firmly-in-cheek horror movies, is the only one that really pulls it off.

Passable and sporadically funny. Not a Horror or Comedy masterpiece, but a diverting waste of time. Occasionally will rope a laugh out of you, although the opening sequence is the best part of the whole movie. Watch it, enjoy it, forget it.

I love the first scene, which is iconic. The rest of the film...clever as it sometimes is...loses steam, and eventually fades from memory. Still, for a slasher, one of the best.

Decent slasher that could have used less cliche characters, possibly not using "teen-agers" as the main cast.

Classic.

One of the best thrilling movies of 90's. Epic, classic, love it.

This is the movie that got me into the slasher genre - which on hindsight might have been a bad thing, since the vast majority of slasher films are nowhere near as entertaining as this little gem. (4.5/5)

About as good as modern horror comes. Both serious and satirical.

Decent exploration of the London dubstep scene of the 2000s.

The best aspect is by far the meta story, but it's a cool movie overall (clearly not an horror though) which I recommend

Very refreshing at the time

matthew lillard supremacy

This movie is full of cheesy clichéd horror tropes and I still love it.

Redefines the horror genre by adding a bit of comedy into it. Introduced a whole new slasher icon.

10/10

Ok, i guess. I watch Scary Movie early on and it was way too similar..

Cinematic perfection. Neve Campbell can't act so she's perfect in producing a sense of the unreal and shocking with grimly comic undertones.

This seemed like a better movie when I was still part of its target audience -- (that being teens and preteens). The characters are loud and obnoxious and don't talk like teenagers talk -- most of them talk like teenagers WISH they talked. And perhaps this comes from having seen it as a teenager and rewatching it as an adult, but I just don't believe it anymore, and I don't sympathize at all with the main character, whose backstory and "drama" seems forced and poorly written for extra sympathy.

New school slasher for the new generation, it's got twists, laffs, and a brand new killer: Ghostface. The new killer isn't very scary, but he gets the job done, and the ending scene is pretty cool also. All the new comedy insterted into this movie was pretty expected since the new generation of horror fans can't seem to be scared by anything, so you might as well make them laugh, eh? Well this is the movie that launched a new generation of less-than-worthy slashies, but oh well. see ya

Pretty decent movie...too bad they kept going

A slightly above average horror film, that was predictable and obvious, but at the same time had certain levels of intrigue. I found that on certain levels the serial killer "ghost-face" had a strange originality within being unoriginal. The questions he asked were intresting enough to make you watch, even if you already knew what was going to happen. The acting was, average, in most suits, but there were a few of the actors that didn't do, or did do amazingly. Overall the movie was funny and

Craven's second metahorror movie in three years. Williamson's script constantly comments on the genre, with vid-store clerk and movie expert Randy (Kennedy) reciting his horror-movie "rules" (a riff used earlier in _There's Nothing Out There_, which also sent up the type of cheap cat scare Craven winkingly employs here). Craven uses his entire bag of terror tricks to satiric yet intense effect in a fright flick somewhat marred by an elongated running time and a rather weak resolution.

When it was released, it seemed like it's self-referential sarcasm was already outdated. However, the movie helped reinvent the genre.

Delivers what it is supposed to. Thrills and chills and a decent mystery with solid performances all around

Tries to be a little too clever and doesn't really succeed, but it's still a lot of fun.

Nothing new to be said here but here's what I felt: Alot less deconstructionist in the subversive sense and alot more in deconstructing the culture it assembled. Initially alot of the references feel just like hanging winks, and theres certainly a degree of playful reverence there to support that, but what it reveals is a lesson seemingly unlearned. Naturally, as we began to package horror that began so primal as an aesthetic (that I adore) we decontextualize our monsters and let our guard down.

IT'S JUST A COMEDY & NOT A HORROR.

Really well done little thriller in terms of tone and pacing. The story doesn't make a LOT of sense under scrutiny, but it's twisty enough to keep you occupied between killings. I still appreciate that ending for making all those kids who saw it think more than they usually do at a movie.

Loved it.

It was funny and legit groundbreaking. The FIRST time.

A nice new perspective on slasher flicks, it spawned several sequels and countless clones.

A must watch movie for any horror fan.

good when it came out, crap now ***

Pionera en su genero (el nuevo terror adolescente sin terror)

Your classical teeny horror movie. Not to scary, a lot of action. Great for a movie night with your girlfriend.

A decent horror/suspence film with the interesting twist of all the characters being very jaded about the rules of a horror movie. The use of them is very interesting. I was fairly young when I first saw this movie, so who the killer turned out to be shocked and amazed me, but perhaps on retrospect it wasn't so amazing. Worth the rent for cultural relevence if nothing else.

I think I watched this movie more than any other movie in high school.

I didn't think it was nearly as funny as most people did, nor nearly as scary. I like the idea of horror movie-buffs creating their own real-life horror movie as the plot line, but it could've been much better.

a fine slasher.

Extremely entertaining, really fun to watch. A good start for the slasher film style of movie.

Rose McGowan's face and hooters

First watch, zero expectations, ended up enjoying immensely.

Great way for Wes Craven to make it in the 90's. This movie was such a surprise win for me. It was funny but really scary and gruesome all in one. Clever twist at the end too.

A campy semi-horror classic that re-invented the genre.

Probably the best for its genre... But what a magnanimously stupid genre.

It was pretty exciting when it first came out, but has become pretty dated as a result of the sheer volume of slashers of a similar formula since then. I would not recommend it.