Title: cousinpaco's top terrors: #9
Review: Yes, "Scream" launched the career of Kevin Williamson (creator of "Dawson's Creek"), and yes, we're all tired of the ironic, self-referential, semi-spoof teen movies that swarmed theaters from 1996 to 2001.However, "Scream" is ultimately successful because mixed in with its ribbing of the slasher-flick genre, it's a pretty darn scary movie. The first sequence taps a lot of raw nerves: prank calls, being home alone, scary guys in dark cloaks with spooky faces, etc. Later scenes of the killer flailing up the stairs after Neve Campbell are suitably chilling."Scream" not only winks at slasher S.O.P., it adheres to it effectively--you can laugh at the fact that you're falling for all its tricks, but you fall for them nonetheless.Most disconcerting of all: seeing Matthew Lillard without Freddie Prinze Jr. anywhere nearby!
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