It's all fun and games, until you realize the joke is on you. In the last 10 years since the last installment to the Scream franchise came out, Hollywood has changed for better and for worse. With business models being rewritten, streaming services taking over, and intellectual properties being made as bankable as possible, we have seen a spike in reboots, sequels, requels, spinoffs, and cinematic universes that put us in a chokehold that we can’t (and sometimes don’t want to) escape. The original Scream mocked the outdated tropes of the horror genre that lacked any innovation, taunting the audiences’ expectations for recycled material and anticipating a world where everyone would do anything to be recognized by the public. The newest Scream, the fifth installment to the franchise, came out ready to mock and celebrate the trends in the genre once again, teasing "elevated" horror, re-evaluating fandoms, and poking at the requel craze that has taken over Hollywood. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 4 February, 2022