03-19-2024, 12:22 AM
I like to think of Scream as, first and foremost, a commentary on the slasher genre. Beginning in the late 70's, Slashers exploded. But they became increasingly absurd and pretty much destroyed themselves in the 80's. Then Scream came around in the 90's and rewrote the book while acknowledging the existence of horror movies and pointing out their tropes.