Even Craven's own sequels-some of which were successful, others of which feature Jay and Silent Bob-have to reckon with the fact Scream exists, that Craven's subversions of the rules he helped write had irrevocably changed the way audiences experience horror. Jackson on Setįor better or worse, the next several decades were littered with films trying to replicate the Scream formula, despite the fact the Scream formula is 'following a formula gets you murdered to death with a sharp object,' and suddenly the entire state of mainstream horror was a snake slicing off its own tail with a kitchen knife. RELATED: Jenna Ortega Reveals She Got to Do THAT 'Scream' Scene with Roger L. Scream showed audiences the rulebook, walked them step-by-step through every trick, and then threw it out the window (only to sneak around back, snag the rule book from the dirt, and whack the audience in the back of the head with it). Just over a decade after injecting a hefty dose of supernatural dream logic into slashers with A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven-working from Kevin Williamson's script-changed the face of horror again by dissecting his own tropes, cutting through the guts and gristle to reveal the beating heart of a genre. Because it's kind of impossible to discuss SCREAM without first reflecting on the monumental shift Wes Craven's 1996 film caused to an entire industry. That's the original Scream, not SCREAM, which is spelled with all capital letters and is most definitely not titled Scream 5 or even 5cream, but we'll get to that shortly. It sounds hyperbolic, but it's fair to say that in the horror genre, there was before Scream and there was after Scream.

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