Title: Overrated
Review: A surprise smash hit when first released, the first installment in Wes Craven's Scream series is overrated to this very day. It's not scary one bit, and some of the characters are so annoying you'll actually be cheering for them to meet their bloody demises. All that aside though, Craven does manage to put some ingenuity into the film by attempting to deconstruct the teen-horror genre outline and instilling some of the main characters with actual intelligence, something in the later installments of film series' like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th was lacking. Scream has a few quick moments of brilliance here and there, but all together it's pretty much predictable mainstream shlock horror. The second film managed to be better than the first, but the third and final (?) film was the worst of the series. The cast features Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, and Henry Winkler.
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