Scream Review
With contemporary horror master Wes_Craven at the helm and a cheekily self-aware script by Kevin_Williamson, Scream (1996) single-handedly resuscitated the teen slasher genre for the media-saturated 1990s. From the opening slaughter of blonde star Drew_Barrymore through the last-minute heroics of final girls Neve_Campbell and Courteney_Cox, Scream simultaneously sent up and reenacted 1970s and 1980s slasher film conventions (with a nod to founding father Alfred_Hitchcock). With a telephone-and knife-wielding psycho taunting beset babes, clueless authority figures, and references to such slasher chestnuts as Friday the 13th (1980) and Halloween (1978), Scream played off the teen audience's pop knowledge while taking a jab at the debate over the effects of media violence. The teen audience responded by turning the unheralded horror flick into a 100 million smash. Along with spawning the inevitable sequels, Scream's success reestablished the strength of the adolescent demographic and resulted in a host of teen horror movies, including the Williamson-penned I_Know_What_You_Did_Last_Summer (1997) and The_Faculty (1999), as well as establishing Williamson as the teen scribe for the late 1990s. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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