Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Film Freak 2011 - Scream 4

Oh the 90's, back in 1996, when the Spice Girls where hip and slasher movies were the best way to get a scare and torture porn movies like Saw and Hostel had not even been though up, Scream was the king of the horror genre. And who could forget that Drew Barrymore scene?

Now 10 years later, the fourth film in this movie series strikes our screen and after two false starts we finally get into the film. The false starts got me on the back foot to be honest, and Anna Paquin, why did you sign up for this? Your a True Blood goddess now, not some freak from the Piano.

So the film starts the killings begin and nothing much seems to have changed besides the major product placement of iPhones, webcams and the older stars plastic surgey (Courtney loves Cox WTF!).

Scream back in the late 90's was epic, the killer was scary, you jumped out of your seat, this time around people are laughing, clapping when the killer is finally killed for the third time, what's changed, have people moved onto and want something more like Saw or Hostel? Or are Horror movies now null and void when there is too much real terror like natural diasters in the world?

Wither way this film was so B Grade it was actually C grade, 2 stars mainly for the clever twist at the end.

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