Scream Is A Frighteningly Sharp-Witted Take On Slasher Movies

Scream was to slasher movies what Deadpool was to superhero movies. That may sound like the headline to some ill-fated Hot Take that ends up getting dragged all over Twitter, but it seems to make total sense to me, the guy who absolutely nailed the ending of His Girl Friday. Both Scream and Deadpool were attempting to tweak the noses of their respective subgenres, but neither were explicitly deconstructions of those subgenres thanks to how frequently they still indulged in well-known tropes of that subgenre, albeit in a self-aware manner. Thankfully, there's more than just a snarky self-aware streak in Scream, which has held up quite well in the more than two decades since its initial release.

A Nightmare On Elm Street Review (Classic Write-Up)

To waltz through the human brain is to find a sprawling landscape of contradictions, mysteries and quandaries. The realm that is our own minds is such an important entity in our lives, retaining our own memories and desires throughout the ages, that it's no shocker that films for years have utilized it as the basis for all sorts of storylines. Just this year, Pete Doctor spun the inner workings of the human psyche into Inside Out, one of the largest American animated movies of all-time.