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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $11.49 You Save: $3.5 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Director's Cut • Dolby • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 20 December, 1996 DVD Release : 08 December, 1998 |
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Scream (Dimension Collector's Series) description With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson |
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| When "Scream" first came out, 12 or 13 years ago I loved it. Because it seemed to be such a funny and clever film. Keep in mind, I was 12 when I first saw this movie. I just watched "Scream" the other day on Encore Mystery (because heaven knows that network TV has gone to hell in a handle basket!) and experienced a totally different feeling about this movie.
This movie is just a ridicules farce because it's such a cliche. If anyone is over the age of 12 and can't tell who the killer is then he or she probably had a lobotomy. And, most of the characters were so annoying. The 2 killers acted like they totally wanted to get in each other's pants, they didn't seem like murderers. Courteney Cox (as Gale Weathers) was so foolish because she's such a lousy actress. Courteney Cox' acting (in)capabilities rival that of Madonna. The only good scene with her was when she got punched in the face. I did like Rose McGowan (as Tatum Riley.) She came off as believable. But why did they have to kill her? And I sorta liked Jamie Kennedy (Randy) because he was so funny, "virgins don't get killed." But overall, most of the movie is really not worth watching. The best part of the movie is the beginning with Drew Barrymore (as Casey Becker.) Drew was only in that first clip, but she still received star billing. She's not in the rest of the movie, but her first scene is certainly the very best because she's really the only true actress in this movie. (BTW, am I the only one who thinks that Drew was wearing a really fugly-looking wig?) There are also a few aspects of this movie that are fundamentally wrong: 1) Neve Campbell - She's not a very good actress either. The producers should of shelled out a few more bucks so that Drew would of stuck around for the entire movie. 2) Tatum being killed - In all horror movies the good friend/nice girl is never killed off. I don't get why they had to kill her off. 3) The 2 stupid nimrod-killers weren't even frightening - And, they also explained everything at the end in detail. Who does this? This is so ludicrous! I was going to give the movie a 2 star rating, not 3 stars because it's really a 2 and a half star movie at the very best. But I figured I would be generous and round up to a 3. Sweet dreams are not made of these. |
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