Scream

To quote a song heard in Scream: “Save a prayer for the youth of America”, because the mind who brought us a Nightmare on Elm Street and the Last House on the Left, Wes Craven, teams up with the creator of Dawson’s Creek, Kevin Williamson to redefine the slasher movie. To put it back in context, the years leading up to the release of Scream the slasher movie genre almost got instinct due to the predicting storylines and the growing disconnect with the fears of the teenagers at the time compared to what movie executives were believing were the fears of youth. That’s when the master of horror stroke back to deliver a smart horror movie to his core audience, who took the movie that no one really was believing in and turned it into a cult movie for the post grunge era youth. Scream breaks many rules of the slasher genre, and that what transcends it; it takes a master to know what rules to bend or break, Wes Craven is that skillful in his craft.