The Plot: The original Scream is from 1996. Directed and written by the master of horror 'Wes Craven'. Scream was a different type of slasher movie. Starring Drew Barrymore as Casey. Neve Campbell as Sidney. Courtney Cox as Gale. David Arquette as Dewey. Skeet Ulrich as Billy. Matthew Lillard as Stuart and Jamie Kennedy as Randy. Instead of it being a typical cliché type Slasher. Instead they made fun of the horror cliché's and gave a more horror (comedic) feel to it. It's about someone that is so obsessed with Horror Movies, that he gains his idea's from Horror to kill and stalk people. You even hear the people in the movie explaining the horror cliché's, which was an all time first. It was the late 90's, the slasher genre was coming to an end. Scream brought it back to life. And with that a whole whirlwind of Slasher's came, bringing the Slasher genre back to life. With movies like ''Urban Legend'' and ''I Know What you did Last Summer'' and their line of sequels is a perfect example of how much Scream influenced the movies of the late 90's and early 2000's. Sream also had another first. It was a duo killer. Everybody throughout the film was trying to figure out who the killer was. And it ended up being 2 killers. The sequel of Scream came. And that had the exact same feel to it as the original. But this time it was all about the Sequel cliche's. It still followed the 4 survivors from the original (Sidney, Dewey, Gale and Randy) Randy dies half way. In a pretty lame way for such a good carachter as Randy! But the killer ended up being the mother of the original killer. She wanted revenge on the 4 survivors on killing her son. So she used the Sequel cliche's to honor her son who used the typical Horror cliché's. Then Scream 3 came. They took another route for this one. It still had that scream feel to it... and yes they had the Trilogy cliché's. But this movie felt more like a Movie within a Movie. Espicially how they made ''Stab'' such a big role in this film. They still followed the 3 survivors from the first/second film. 11 Years later, the original Scream trilogy which printed it's stamp in Horror History. Was no longer a trilogy but a Quadrilogy. This movie was not recieved well by the fans, as they felt they were messing with the classics. The Box Office wasn't all that well either. This movie was not about classic cliché's. But about the Modern day cliché's. The motto for this movie was ''New Decade, New Rules'' It showed the cliché's of the Remake genre and newer generation slashers. To expect the unexpected. It still followed Sidney, Gale and Dewey. Who by this time have become Scream originals. 3 Days ago, it was announced that they are busy with a fifth film. No info is out yet. They are also working on a 'Scream'' tv series.
Personal Review: I personally LOVE the Scream Quadrilogy. I like the original Trilogy better. But the fourth is also good. But the original was very good. And is a unieke film, that could actually only be made once. As it is a very unieke idea that cannot be copied. The sequels were still good. But just not as good as the original. I will continue to love the Scream Franchise and will watch it any day!
Soon, I will review the films 1 by 1, and also give a personal review. Thank you for visiting my page. Tomorrow Day 8 will be up. And Halloween Resurrection will also be added to my Halloween Movie Franchise Review. Thanks again.
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