Movie 1-Scream 1

Scream
Starring:Neve Campbell,Courtney Cox, Dir: Wes Craven
Release Date:December 1996, Running time:111 minutes

I start my film adventure with Scream.To me this is one of the best 'horror'(some may not call it horrow) series out there. Scream 1 starts in Woodsboro a fictional town in America. A young girl receives a chilling call(the killer calls before he strikes and usually plays with the victim and threatens them using a voice changer.It's a brilliant addition in my opinion because it adds suspense to it) and has to endure this call,watch her boyfriend get stabbed to death before ultimately being killed herself. That sets it all up for a high school slasher flick with teen Sid Prescott(Neve Campbell) and her friends all having to endure the horror of living through this ordeal. She is also haunted by the rape and murder of her mother not too long before and pushy reporter Gale Weathers(Courtney Cox) trying to engineer the release of the man on trial for the murder because she believes he is innocent.




To be honest I had reservations about this film thinking it may be just another teen slasher flick HOWEVER it is actually fantastic viewing. The murders are well thought out and executed and I also like the whole who is the murderer thing(which wasn't used for a while before Scream). Also the acting is brilliant from Neve Campbell to Courtney Cox(who proves she is brilliant at serious roles). Another brilliant thing about the film is it knows it is a film.It constantly makes references to it being a film and plays on that. One character says the whole thing is a film and one character also discusses the 'rules' of horror movies believing these rules have to be adhered to in order to engineer their survival. It is really clever and if you recognise some references(there are numerous references to Friends,Jennifer Aniston and other roles of Neve Campbell David Arquette and also references to films by Wes Craven who directs Scream). If you are a keen fan of horror too you will notice deliberate attempts to 'copy' ideas and scenarios from them as a sort of tribute I guess.

8 out of 10


PS. Look out for Henry Winkler(Fonzy from Happy Days)