Scream is a big franchise and it's actually a pivotal moment in a horror legend's career. Wes Craven, I think, was born to make the scream movies and it shows. He's on his fourth outing with some pretty awesome classics that follow up before this one. After Craven made the Scream movies he was pretty much cursed making nothing but garbage, until now. He comes back to form in the fourth and definitely not the last outing of this brilliant Scream franchise.
"Why do you like horror movies so much?" Many people have asked me this question, my pastors, my parents, my wife and pretty much anyone I know. I'm not a morbid person, I'm not sadistic or immoral, I just think horror films are artistic and powerful but also they are just plain fun. Scream is full of fun and will probably be the best time you'll have at the movies this summer, if you like slasher films that is. Scream is not about the character development, it's not about the plot, it's about how much corn syrup can be spilt and how many times can we entertain the audience. It's funny, suspenseful, creepy and scary.
This one almost acts like a remake, it brings back all of the original cast members, Dewey, Gail, and of course Sydney, then it fuses them with a bunch of new cast members. There are some surprising faces here and you could tell they all want a piece of the action when they heard Craven was in town. The characters are cardboard and silly, there's good guys, bad guys and dumb guys. There's hot blondes flirting with the movie nerds and yes of course the movie nerds are the jocks in a film like this. You see if you especially have a respect and love for movies then scream is catered for you. The original Scream was huge simply because it took the slasher film and exploited it, well the same antics are up here. Scream 4 is a celebration of horror films but at the same time it pokes fun at "the rules" and makes things very cheesy, which always makes for laughs. Not all is glorious in this new addition though.
This movie does not bring a new sense of cleverness or innovation the first film did. Wes Craven does everything he should've done for this movie, which works, but nothing spectacular came out of it. The scare scenes were great, some better than others, but some just could've been that much more if there was a little bit of patience behind the camera. The movie does get tired, it gets tired up until the final scene where the movie shows Craven hitting his stride, once again, and the entire movie I was waiting for sparks like this. The end of movie borders the line of insanity, psychotic behaviour and it really get's to the heart of Scream as a whole movie franchise. I thought the ending transcended the whole film and the film is just there to build up to the final fifteen minutes of the film. It's suspenseful, creepy, disturbing and awesome, it just makes me wish that the whole movie was that good. At least it was fun, which is what Scream does best.
