Scream

Pros: Entertaining movie with interesting story and characters.
Cons: Some annoying characters and bad acting.

When I was younger, I didn't watch many horror or scary movies.  As I got older, I started to see some of them on television every so often, enjoying some of them.  When Scream was first released in 1996, I thought the trailers ...

Pros: A fantastic opening scene, some decent performances, and a good mystery make this film the best of the 90's style slasher flicks
Cons: the opening scene is so intense that the rest of the film never lives up to it, and the climax features the typical Scooby-Doo denouement

Scream: Miramax/ Dimension Films
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: MA

Now, several years after it’s 1996 release, it’s almost impossible to view Wes Craven’s (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Last House on the Left)...

Pros: A scary slasher flick with a sense of humor
Cons: Violence and language (but what do you expect from the genre?)

Okay, it's time for some true confessions.  I have a dark side, as exhibited by my life long fascination with slasher films.  Don't get me wrong, I am also normally repulsed by them.  The sex and violence turn me off if nothing else.  ...

Pros: Great characters and acting, clever writing, fun atmosphere.
Cons: Gosh, I don't think there are any!

Horror movies never turned my head until Scream came along. Like many others of my age, I was sold on Neve Campbell's famous line, "What's the point? They're all the same..." What makes Scream different from most horror movies? ...

Pros: Interesting mix of satire and reality.
Cons: Comes close to quotation at times, the ending is a cop-out.

When Scream was released in 1996, the slasher film was a genre many people believed to be long past its expiration date. The genre, which had seen its brightest days in the 80s, had limped through most of the past decade on a steady diet of idiotic...

Pros: great mystery/horror movie; good red herrings; acting; chemistry
Cons: talkative killer and other clichés; preventable and unrealistic deaths

Scream (1996) brought back the teen horror genre.  There were other movies that were released after Scream that were clearly inspired by this movie.  I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Halloween: H20, etc.  ...

Pros: scary, gory, funny, great script, great cast, oh just read the review
Cons: nothing, nada, zip, zilch

This review is part of the currently unnamed Halloween Write-Off. So call it what you like, but myself and these fine writers have all decided to scare up some good reviews of their favorite scary books or movies: amykhar, AmyLEnsor, Blackelve,...

Pros: Every aspect of this film is done extremely well. It's hilarious and scary as Hell.
Cons: Unfortunately, Scream has inspired many cheap imitations.

I remember when Wes Craven's Scream hit mutliplexes back in 1996. At the time, I was an ex-horror movie fan who had been long jaded by unintelligent scripts, untalented actors and uninteresting villains.

For me, the low point of...

Pros: Excellent script, brilliant cast and crew, good special effects
Cons: None

Scream, which was penned by Kevin Williamson and directed by the legendary Wes Craven, will go down in history as the film that single-handedly revitalised the horror genre, making it popular with the masses once more. Me, well I have always had...

Pros: Scary, exciting and funny all at the same time
Cons: None

While some claim that it ruined horror movies for years to come (which is a justified claim), Scream is a horror movie/parody that reaches every emotion that someone should feel when they are watching a good movie. It makes you laugh, get your ...

Pros: Matt Lillard, it ended
Cons: It didn't end nearly fast enough

This monstrosity was the thing that introduced me to the teen horror genre. People ask me why I am unable to get into the teen slasher genre and like films such as Halloween or a Nightmare on Elm Street. Whenever they ask me, I just point to this film ...

Pros: Funny, great beginning, great movie for horror buffs
Cons: Disappointing ending, the rest of the movie can’t compare to the beginning

I think I was the last person to ever see Scream, and surprisingly enough, I didn’t have the ending ruined beforehand. If you haven’t seen the movie, I wouldn’t read the third to last paragraph.

Scream is basically about young...

Pros: Everything
Cons: No nudity.

In the next few days "Scream 3" will be coming out. So i'm going to discuss "Scream", "Scream 2" and when I see "Scream 3" this weekend, I will discuss it. In this review I will assume you have already seen the...

Pros: Original, fresh take on a tired concept; some funny moments; genuinely scary
Cons: At the end of the day it's still a typical horror flick.

Of all the genres out there, horror is probably the most difficult to work with in terms of making something really original. You would think satirizing the genre would be simple, but "Scream" disproves both of these ideas. It works as a wholly original ...

Pros: Excellent acting for the genre, a witty script, and roller coaster worthy twists and turns
Cons: Some people dislike the film for various reasons

THE (burial) PLOT

Sidney (Neve Campbell: TV’s “Party of Five”) is trying to get her life back on track after the rape and murder of her mother just one year earlier. Unfortunately, killings have started back up in...