Scream (Craven, 1996): Everyman Islington Screen on Green, 10.30pm
This great post-modern horror movie is part of the '90s Films on 35mm' programme at the Everyman Islington Screen on the Green. This also screens on August Details here.
Time Out review:
'Wes Craven draws
on a shared pop cultural heritage in horror flicks to fashion this
bloody brand of post-modern comedy. 'So you like scary movies? Name the
killer in Friday the 13th?' demands the anonymous caller of Drew
Barrymore's lone teen in the prologue. 'Hang up again and I'll gut you
like a fish!' The killer describes his apparently irrational vendetta
against the high school population of Woodsboro as a game, and in this
he's surely speaking for screenwriter Kevin Williamson and
director Craven, who kill off the clichés and all the wrong characters
with panache. At times, it's too clever, but it's sure scary, with the
jokes notching up the general level of hysteria. As a bonus, Craven
throws in half a dozen of Hollywood's brightest hopefuls: Neve Campbell
in the central role of the teenager haunted by the murder of her mother;
David Arquette as a naive local deputy; Courtney Cox as a TV star; Rose
McGowan as the doomed best friend; and Skeet Ulrich as the evocatively
named Billy Loomis. Intelligence, wit and sophistication - at last, a
horror movie to shout about!'
Tom Charity
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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