I remember vividly watching Scream for the very first time. It was 1999, I was 10 years old, and the copy of the film was a pirated VHS tape that my friend brought over during a sleepover. It terrified me, even in its dreadfully grainy bootleg video form.
By the time I was legally old enough to watch Scream, Scream 4 had been released – a competent sequel that still managed to show those flashes of brilliance the originally so perfectly demonstrated. In fact, this long running franchise has rarely missed a beat – notwithstanding Scream 3.
With such a good track record, among its horror film brothers, I was understandably nervous about the release of a new edition, simply titled Scream, which follows the current trend of forgoing numbers and straplines – we’re not in the 90s anymore people! But after 11 years, is the franchise still clever enough to succeed among a more sophisticated type of horror?
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