“It’s never as good as the first time,” Sade Adu sang of love. I have rarely, if ever, found this to be true (third time’s a charm, if we’re going to generalize), but I do think it applies to the 1996 slasher movie Scream. Those of us who saw this in the theater early into its release had no idea what we were in for. Its promo campaign was vague, little more than a bunch of actors looking terrified and running and an ominous voiceover declaring, “Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far.” Drew Barrymore, arguably the movie’s biggest star at the time, was featured prominently. She was clearly the protagonist.
films, many of those involved in the production emphasize that horror had been gutted and left for dead in the years beforeHalloween
had run out of steam, plodding along as brainlessly as the murderers they depicted. There were few truly original horror films in the early ’90s to capture mainstream attention . The thriller had taken over. In vogue were movies with horrific elements that were either not horror films or that took such a radical approach to genre that they were unrecognizable as such if they qualified at all .Wes Craven’s New Nightmarefranchise that the writer-director launched in 1984.
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