Let’s get one thing straight. Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson saved the slasher genre with their meta-horror film, Scream. The slasher sub-genre was a bit dull around the mid-90s. There were a few films that made the cut, like Bernard Rose’s Candyman, but even he couldn’t bring the genre out of the hole it was in. Tiresome tropes, the same predictable formula, and the final girl wasn’t doing it for audiences anymore. Then Scream made its debut. Scream follows the classic “whodunit” formula of slasher films while simultaneously calling out the problem within the genre. George Romero and Sam Raimi stayed far away from satire-slashers, fearing them too comedic, but Scream was able to function because it was so self-aware. Both the movie world and the real world hold the same expectations of what a slasher film is supposed to look like while the film goes on and reinvites the expectations of the sub-genre through the three elements of horror logic. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 26 October, 2020