the horror genre was pretty much dead
friday teh 13th jason goes to hell was a massive bust
halloween was struggling
freddy. no one cared anymore
it was over
done and out
tHEN HERE COMES SCREAM and nboom everyone is back in the game and here comes I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and URBAN LEGEND
this movie brought back horror
It did and it was huge.
I think the 3rd movie killed it. That one was just hard to watch.
It was quite a phenomenon. It brought back horror, but also made it more appealing to a mainstream audience.
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Scream is also the highest grossing slasher movie of all time, for what it's worth. Especially if you adjust it for inflation (282.7 million!)
I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies until I was 11, & didn't start watching Scream until 99 when I was 13. I loved them tremendously, but I never really realized what the first film did for the slasher genre until I got a little older.
shareI didn't watch it when it came out because I was like four at the time, but I understand completely. The first time I watched it I was maybe about 9 and it has been one of my favorite movies ever since.
It reinvigorated a stale genre by flipping the entire thing on its head and the best part is that it was done by one of the veterans of said genre.
Last I looked...Wes Craven, the director of "Scream" and also creator of "The Nightmare on Elm Street" series had only had two discussion threads here on the site.
https://moviechat.org/nm0000127/Wes-Craven
NOW THAT'S SAD!
Why is it sad? It will always have its cult following and I'm sure that will be revived at some point in the future.
shareThis movie didn't just rejuvenate the horror movie genre, it created a whole new type of horror movie. The self aware horror movie. Not only do horror movies exist it this movies universe, but classic ones are referenced (Friday the 13th, Nightmare of Elm Street, The Howling and Halloween is even watched by characters). And the characters realize that what's happening around them is like a horror movie, and are aware of the cliches and common pitfalls.
Also this brought 90's teenagers into horror movies. Halloween took care of the 70's, Freddy and Jason slashed through the 80's, but prior to Scream no one had really gone after 90's teens. But from this point forward they were fair game.
Very well put.
shareYup. I've posted this before. Horror was, uh, dead by the mid 90s. Scream reignited it. Granted, mostly everything that came after was mediocre again, but it got people back into seeing horror.
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