Review – Scream

Wes Craven tries to warm up the old magic that brought him big-time success with the “Elm Street” series, and the amazing thing is that it almost kinda works. The new shtick is an endless parade of genre references, an active mocking of the very clichés that the film-makers so studiously observe. The cast reads like a who’s who of GenX TV stars, and the script is typical of most bigger-budget entries in the slasher genre. The thing that really saves this movie is its sense of humor, its ability to cynically scoff at the conventions of slasher movies while hacking teens left and right the whole time. Mildly amusing