‘Scream’ (1996). Movie Review

Wes Craven directs this film that made a big splash at the time, a slasher satire that revitalized the horror genre back then.

Neve Campbell stars in Scream, a film that in its day was groundbreaking for its satire on horror films and their rigid rules made by a guy who knew a lot about this: Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street).

Plot

A girl receives a mysterious call from a guy she doesn’t know, and they start talking about horror movies. She doesn’t pay much attention to him, but in anticipation we discover that the guy is serious and has… a long knife. The girl and her boyfriend end up brutally murdered.

Scream. Vigila Quién Llama (1996)
Scream (1996)

The Movie

It was very well received in its time, mostly because of the irony of a guy who hit the jackpot with slasher movies and now exposes his ground rules by laughing a little at them. Wes Craven, if anyone ignores it, is the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street, laughs at himself and the whole genre in a film that gave rise to another saga, that of I Know What You Did Last Summer, which also mocks the genre, although much less.

Several familiar faces appear in the film, such as Drew Barrymore, who surprised us at a time when we had already almost forgotten her, a little absorbed in her personal dalliances. Neve Campbell seemed to have a promising career in television, but it finally came to nothing and, of course, we have Courtney Cox, from Friends, who no longer plays a teenager.

It’s teen cinema laughing at itself. We won’t say it’s clever, but it’s ironic and satirical and it has its own appeal and, for once -and may this data remain in the history of cinema- the critics didn’t trash the film.

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