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Originally posted by Patrick
Scream is campy, but it's an intentional campiness. The films are satirical of the slasher genre, whilst being slasher films themselves. That seems like a rather preposterous concept, but the aspect of parody is obvious when you consider, for example, the fact that the characters constantly reference and cite the mistakes of characters in other horror films, yet end up falling into the same sort of traps. Creating that balance between parody and horror is tricky. The first film is pretty successful at doing this, but I think the sequels aren't as clever and veer too far into that parody zone. They don't have a satisfying mix of humor and thrills.
That said, I'm not a huge fan of any of the slasher franchises. I'd much rather watch some sort of psychological thriller than a gory slasher flick.
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I was well aware of what Scream was doing and it did succeed at doing what Kevin Williamson set out to do. Having said that, I can't stand the sequels, but what I can't stand even more is how people act as if it's the greatest horror movie ever made. I'm glad that it helped horror out of that ditch back in the mid 90's, but its influence in how horror films were made from then till 2003 killed me.
Everywhere you looked each horror film had pretty teens (prettier than usual) being hacked up and they were all featured on the front of the poster and DVD artwork. The films always took place in some suburban town with some nut on the loose. It killed me when
Halloween: H20 followed in the footsteps of a film the original
Halloween inspired. I did enjoy the original
Scream, but I guess it's a love hate relationship, lol.
