Movieposting: Scream

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 Among the movies that make people go "what do you mean you haven't seen it??" this one has a particular angle. I loved Cabin in the Woods when it came out. So, of course, people would go, what do you mean you love Cabin in the Woods but haven't seen Scream?

 

It may seem incoherent from the outside that I'm someone ignorant of a lot of popular movies and yet I'm here for movies that exist to play on horror tropes. It's a little more coherent if you know that a lot of my media diet as a teenager was bargain bin horror movies and whatever showed up on TV late at night. So I don't know the classics but I'm familiar enough with the tropes and the playbook of sloppily written horror to appreciate a good riff on it.

 

Something I especially appreciated in this film in particular is how it felt like a commentary not just on the horror media tropes, but also on how the reporting of real-life violent crime can get treated with the same sense of spectacle. The reporter character becoming as pivotal as she was in the resolution of the conflict... It just felt right. That really hit me, watching this movie from the current time when True Crime has become an even more mainstream media phenomenon.