I will admit that I don’t watch scary movies. Not that I don’t think they are a valid genre or purposeful film making, its just that I don’t like to get scared. I don’t like the feeling of being on edge the entire time I watch a movie, or having my heart skip a beat when the killer is revealed in the background. I can do with out that. I would rather laugh or cry or have a profound realization of our world. But thats just me and thats probably we I liked Scream so much.
When it came out, I originally passed on it, thinking it was like all other slasher flicks. What I didn’t think was possible was that a movie could be making fun of the exact conventions that it was using to scare the audience. This was a horror movie that was totally aware that horror movies exist and how they are supposed to work, yet it managed to use that to make a very well done slasher flick. And it was funny. There are just as many laughs in this film as screams and that keeps the balance from leaning to heavily in the favour of a corn ball cheesy “C” grade horror film.
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