Scream
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02/09/21 • 128 min
Do you like scary movies? No examination of the slasher genre would be complete without talking about Scream, a film that made horror "cool" again in the 1990s. Scream defined its own subgenre full of big named stars and snappy, self-aware dialog, and finally established a world in which the protagonists had watched a horror movie before. But after all these years, does it still hold up?
Do you like scary movies? No examination of the slasher genre would be complete without talking about Scream, a film that made horror "cool" again in the 1990s. Scream defined its own subgenre full of big named stars and snappy, self-aware dialog, and finally established a world in which the protagonists had watched a horror movie before. But after all these years, does it still hold up?
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