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There's one thing that isn't realistic enough about EastEnders - - if these were real people, wouldn't they just talk about last night's EastEnders all the time? Well, that's what Scream does for horror movies - - specifically, teen slasher horror movies of the Nightmare Halloween Massacre On Friday The 13th kind. These kids aren't just terrified because they're being stalked by a masked sociopath; they're terrified because they've seen plenty of films about teenagers being stalked by masked sociopaths - and they know that their chances of surviving unlacerated aren't good. Sound like fun? It is, not least because this is a simultaneously frightening and witty film. Made all too aware by a string of recent flops - - The People Under The Stairs, Vampire In Brooklyn - - that no-one takes junk like this seriously, director Wes Craven happily chucks in every cliché in the book (the self-same book of slasher movie clichés he can plausibly claim to have written in the first place). You see, it's almost exactly a year since the horrific murder of the mother of schoolgirl Sidney (played by promising brunette Neve Campbell, from The Craft and TV's Party Of Five). She's upset when her classmate Casey (an opening cameo from Drew Barrymore) gets similarly knifed and ends up hanging from a tree. So when the sicko comes after Neve - - he's polite enough to wait 'til his victims are alone in the house, then phones them with trivial questions about horror films - - the whole school goes Crazy Killer Crazy. Naturally, all the kids' whodunnit theories are based on their favourite slasher-based flicks. ""There's always some bullshit reason to kill your girlfriend"," advises geeky film nerd Randy at the local video store, after Sidney's clearly unhinged boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) is accused, then released. Randy's full of this sort of handy info, providing commentary on the suspense-building second half when the kids - - not too brightly - - get together for a party way out on the edge of town. If only they'd listened as he reeled off the rules of surviving a horror film: never pop out for something and say, "I'll be right back"; and don't, for God's sake, have sex. Fans will enjoy the references to "Wes Carpenter" (Wes Craven admitting that he's often confused with Halloween's director, John Carpenter), and they'll chuckle at the school janitor's strong resemblance to Freddy Krueger. But not all the gags are in-jokes. Sidney's best pal's attitude to the town deputy (her elder brother) is just plain hilarious, as is the subtly effective stunt casting. Henry "The Fonz" Winkler is way too convincing as the knife-edge puritan headmaster, and Friends' Courtney Cox, to her credit, plays an authentically unpleasant tabloid TV news reporter (feel free to cheer when Sidney chins her for getting too personal). But does it have enough chills as well as chuckles? Or do the self-referential bits stop you believing in the characters, as in Schwarzenegger's widely misunderstood Last Action Hero? Reassuringly, Scream has a whole dingy boiler-room packed with popcorn-spilling moments, from the "Scream" killer's costume (a distorted white face with a hideous fixed grin, based on Edvard Munch's nightmarish painting of the same name) to Craven's trademark shocks (girl cut in half by garage door) to a nastily protracted multiple stabbing near the end. What's more, the way everyone keeps saying, ""If this really was a scary movie..."" ultimately makes iRead full review
All 3 movies are in great condition! Enjoying them!
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I bought the triple pack after I saw Scream 4, I wanted to re-watch the movies from the beginning since it's been years since I saw them. The triple pack was also great because I didn't have to buy the DVDs individually and it was at a very affordable price. I would buy this product again if I had to.