Scream
Dir: Wes Craven
1996
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Scream made a huge impact on its release back in 1996. One thing it did was make horror films mainstream, something that seemed like a good thing at first but time has since suggested otherwise. Ghostface is as good as any masked knife wielding villein but in trying to create an almost satirical and deconstructed horror icon, Wes Craven just made an average character, a non-identity that deserves none of its success. The musings on horror cliches is fairly annoying too as they get many of the cliches wrong and Craven himself is guilty of the rest. Scream spawned not only a series of horrible sequels but a bunch of samey, boring, sub-standard horror films that have damaged the genre so much that all new horror is pretty much the same and as a reaction all the other horror films are sensationalist and are more concerned with shock then genuine scare or any of the creativity that come with it.