**** out of **** A beautiful young woman (Drew Barrymore) is stalked, manipulated, tricked, psychologically tortured, and eventually killed in the comfort of her own home. It begins with a mysterious phone-call from an unknown caller with a very manly and very scary voice; who seems peculiarly interested in horror cinema. When a film makes a few good, intentionally campy references to "Friday the 13th" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" in the same opening sequence, you know … more
For someone with little knowledge of horror films, I really enjoyed this one. By reading Lord Naseby's blog on how to make a good horror film, I have figured out the basic cliches of horror films and familiarized myself with Scream, so thanks to Naseby for that. Anyway, I have figured out the main cliches, thus I know that Scream manages to sidestep a lot of them when not spoofing them. Honestly, this is probably the best spoof film ever made, mostly because Wes Craven and everyone involved … more