My parents, as I mentioned in the Nightmare On Elm Street post did not let me see horror movies until it was literally the one thing that would get me to go back home after I had an asthma attack and they wanted me to be near the better hospital in our province. Closer ot home for all that. So they were like "fine rent those stupid movies" and you'd better believe your sweet bippy that I did. I rented them all. All of them. Well, no not really as there are a lot of horror movies and you can't really rent them anymore. But I did rent a lot of them. This was in like 1995 which means I was ten years old and on the ground floor for the Scream series and remember watching Urban Legend at thirteen in 1998 instead of I dunno Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century or whatever terrible DiC cartoon was being made at the time. Still Scream was a huge deal in the late 20th century and even into the 21st. I remember the Joblo Movie Forums where people would argue over it being a good movie or not. The fact that I decided to rewatch six movies means that I like these movies pretty well. I just miss forums man. We could just have fun regardless of if we liked something or not. Moderation really did make the internet not shitty.
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Scream 3 the end of the original trilogy of films is the worst of the bunch. I cannot give a movie written by Satan aka Ehren Kruger any higher than last. Ehren Kruger first off cannot even spell his first name correctly. It's Aaron, bro. Secondly he wrote three of Michael Bay's Transformers movies. This movie is really stupid. First off Ghostface now has a voice changer that can change into ANY VOICE. That's a plot Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century would turn down for being to stupid. It then just ends up being weird and convoluted. Apparently Sidney's mom Maureen Prescott was apart of Hollywood where she was sexually assaulted and that gave her a son that she then turned away. That son is the Ghostface for this movie and my God he is a whiney little baby of a man. I hate this guy so much. So, so much. Anyway this movie still has some good points. Courtney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell step back into their roles so easily and are still great to watch. I also loved Parkey Posey who plays Gale Wathers within the meta movie Stab 3. Oh, this movie also has David Putty in it and I love seeing him actually show up in things. He is a bodyguard and he calls Dewey Dewdrop which is like such a douche thing to do. David Putty was so good at being a douche. I don't hate this movie unlike those terrible terrible Transformers movie but this one is still pretty stupid and clearly the worst of the whole franchise.
Scream's first Legacy Sequel. Sorta. Yeah, in 2011 Scream got a sequel after 11 years. This one talks a little bit about the Torture Porn stuff that was being made during the 11 years Scream was away. They also talk a lot about remakes between this time and how none of the old rules mean anything. And how uh, being gay is the only way to really survive. I really don't know this era of Horror very well but I cannot think of many gay characters from this era. A new character named Kirby lists off like 820 remakes to answer one of Ghostface's questions and while I'm pretty sure I saw each and every one of those remakes (I like horror movies what of it) I cannot remember most of those movies and I certainly don't remember a gay character getting to live because they were gay. I know this sounds silly but the "rules" these movies came up with made sense and you could be like yeah that works for like 2852908 horror movies they were satirizing. It just doesn't seem to work very well here. Oh well, despite all that the plot is pretty good. the people who end up being Ghostface make sense and the returning characters are all still lovable. A good way for Wes Craven to go out on and way better than Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century. I'm going to see if I can force a reference to that show into each paragraph.
Isn't it weird how the earlier chapters of this series are lower than the newer ones. I mean this is a nostaliga blog where I talk about everything from the past being so great and I complain about so many remakes and sequels but I honestly really liked the two newer Scream movies. I guess I have to suprise you people sometimes. Not everything from the past was good. I mean just look at Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century. This movie is very well done. It actually has my favorite suspense scene in the entire franchise. It's a scene where they have to get out of a car and crawl over Ghostface who is passed out in the front seat. I also liked a lot of the hints they put throughout the movie on who the killer could be. Like when Jamie Kennedy (who plays Randy Meeks and has really weird ears. Unlike Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century) is killed you can look in the camera in the van and it gives you a hint of who to think is behind it. I enjoyed watching this one again
I'm going to talk about these two together because they are honestly tied for second place. Yep, I know this is wild but I just went to reddit for some reason (It's good for finding pornography and nothing else) and they were all so angry at the idea of one of the new characters being the daughter of Billy Loomis (one of the killers in the original movie) and how that really messed her up and I think that works fine. I actually really quite like it. I enjoyed watching Billy Loomis talk to her in scenes, even bringing back that lovable scamp Skeet Ulrich. They also complained about Dewey dying and man, one of those three characters just had to get it this time. Them surviving everything under the sun started to become comical by the third movie. It doesn't hurt that I think this Sam Carpenter lady is very cute and I would like to kiss her. I would not like to kiss Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century. I like the new characters alot and feel like the returning characters were brought in pretty well and treated fairly. I mean Sidney doesn't show up in the sixth movie because behind the scenes they didn't want to give her money and I'm like bros don't be sassing poor ol' Neve Campbell! SHE IS A CANADIAN TREASURE AND YOU WILL RESPECT AND LOVE HER! I also love the relationship between Sam and Tara as sisters, and how they make these two movies havea theme of family. I like it and I like these movies. They have some great scary scenes in them. Like the one on the Subway in part 6. I alsoi like how these movies just sass the hardcore lunatics that happen to be fans of things. Holy hell guys stop crying over these things man. STOP BEING WEIRDOS.
It's hard to tell people who weren't around for this how big a deal this movie was. It was HUGE. Like slashers and hell honestly horror in general was kind of a downfall in the 1990s. From like 1978 to 1990 you could find slashers to watch and all kinds of horror movies to wtach. It stopped being like that in the early 90s. I mean they were still there but it was at least half as what it was in the late 1980s. This movie however brought it back IN SPADES. So many movies with SEXY TEENS (actually people in their 20s and 30s) made for cinema by big companies and for tv and for direct to video and it was insane and I loved it all. I love this era for Horror. The Scream era I like to call it. I really wish Kevin Williamson would get to write stuff that isn't Scream again. The Faculty and Teaching Miss Tingle rule. The characters in this movie feel the most real and entertaining. I love the little interactions between pretty much all of the characters. I also think that Billy Loomis really really really was sick of Stu's shit and couldn't want to kill him in the end of the movie. I think Matthew Lillard is hilarious in this movie and Quinten Tarantino can kiss it. "MY MOM AND DAD ARE GOING TO BE SO MAD AT ME!" Great stuff. Great movie. That opening with Drew Barrymore is NUTS and none of the sequels could ever top it. Uh. I have never actually seen an episode of Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.
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