|
The film Scream ushered in a new sub-genre of horror - the Teen Scream Film. The movie Scream features numerous in-jokes and references to other horror projects. The victims in Scream are quite self-aware: they each make clear their familiarity with, and poke fun at, teen slasher and horror flicks, which sets up their fairly ironic responses to the film's situations.
Two of the most common references are to A Nightmare on Elm Street and its director Wes Craven. In the audio commentary for the DVD, Craven says that he almost took out the line where Casey Becker says the first A Nightmare on Elm Street was good but the rest sucked, because he thought it would make him seem egotistical.
However, it was pointed out to him that he had co-written the third film and also wrote and directed the seventh. A Nightmare on Elm Street is also referenced in the high school janitor. Fred, played by Craven, wears an outfit resembling Freddy Krueger's. Later in the film, Tatum tells Sidney that she is "sounding like a Wes Carpenter flick", a fictional name created from compounding the names Wes Craven and John Carpenter (co-producer of the first three installments in the Halloween film series, co-writer of the first two, and director of the first).
The first flick in the trilogy from director John Carpenter,
Halloween almost single-handedly invented the 1980s slasher genre.
Escaped lunatic Michael Myers (no, not the Austin Powers actor) goes on
a murderous baby-sitter-slaying rampage on Halloween. Only baby sitter Jamie Lee Curtis (the quintessential scream queen) and psychiatrist Donald Pleasence can stop him.
When a Halloween prank traps young Frankie Scarlatti (Lukas Haas)
in a school coat closet, he witnesses the replay of a girl's death.
Narrowly escaping the grip of her unseen killer, Frankie vows to help
solve the murder and exonerate a wrongly accused janitor. All the
while, the legend of the ghostly lady in white lingers. Writer-director
Frank LaLoggia
composed the film's musical score and plays the adult Frankie.
A group of high school friends are being slaughtered in their sleep by
the hideous fiend of their shared dreams. When the police ignore her
explanation, one girl must confront the killer in his shadowy realm.
Director Tobe Hooper's horror classic is a gruesome reminder that a movie need not be complicated to scare the daylights out of viewers. Sally (Marilyn Burns), her wheelchair-bound brother (Paul A. Partain)
and their friends travel to a vandalized graveyard to see if their
grandfather's remains are intact. En route, they come upon
chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), and it's a fight to the bloody death between good and evil.
Director Brian De Palma deftly transfers Stephen King's first novel to the screen. Carrie (Sissy Spacek)
is an ostracized girl saddled with a strict mother. But the teen has
the ability to move objects with her mind, and when the high school "in
crowd" torments her with a sick joke at the prom, Carrie's fury lashes
out with devastating power.
Young
Ryan is deathly afraid of the dark, but his big brother Dale thinks
he's just vying for attention. Dale's attitude changes, though, when a
storm knocks out the power and reveals good reason for Ryan's terror.
Directed by K.C. Bascombe, this nerve-racking low-budget horror flick preys on the most common of fears. Jesse James and Kevin Zegers star as the two doomed siblings trapped in a waking nightmare.
Terminal literally means terminal at this airport! After boarding a
charter flight bound for Paris, high school student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa)
and a few of his classmates cave in to a sixth sense about impending
doom. They exit the 747 and before you can say "black box," the plane
crashes, killing everyone aboard. The teens may have dodged a bullet,
but the grim reaper soon comes calling -- with "payment due" on his
mind.
Twenty years after a drowning and a pair of murders shut it down, Camp
Crystal Lake is reopening -- against the better judgment of skeptical
locals. The new owner (Peter Brouwer) scoffs at the camp's "death
curse," but when the teenage counselors start to drop, he begins to
reconsider. Gruesome makeup and effects, a nubile cast (including a
young Kevin Bacon) and a psycho-killer for the ages (in Jason) make this a slasher classic.
Nobody believes horror-movie addict Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon),
is a vampire. Kith and kin believe Charley is certifiable, and his
single mother develops a romantic interest in Dandridge. When the
bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to TV horror-film host
and ghoul-hunter Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) in this hysterical spoof.
Prom queen Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis)
is one of four teenagers terrorized by a dark secret from the past in
this classic slasher film. Six years prior to the prom, four kids
antagonize another child, which results in her death. Flash forward to
high school, and the same four begin receiving vengeful phone calls
from a witness to the "accident." Come prom night, the four friends
will meet their axe-wielding stalker. Leslie Nielsen co-stars.
|
