The 1990s were a roller coaster of a time for the horror genre. From the lackluster franchise sequels in the early 90s to the reinvigoration of the craft through Wes Craven’s Scream in 1996, the decade went out with a bevy of underrated entries. One of the greatest forgotten gems of …
Read More »‘Scream 2’ (1997) Turns 25 – Retro Review
The original Scream (1996) crashed into the horror world when the genre needed it most. Wes Craven’s (A Nightmare On Elm Street, 1984) meta whodunit not only became an instant hit, but it also breathed new life into horror in a period when things were starting to feel stale and …
Read More »Wes Craven’s ‘Scream’ (1996) Is Still A Scary Movie Staple – Retro Review
“What’s your favorite scary movie?” It’s been 25 years since this oh-so-simple yet blood-chilling line was posed over the phone to the blonde-bobbed Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore: Firestarter 1984) in the original Scream, which was released to the world on December 20, 1996. Casey, who just wanted to enjoy some …
Read More »‘The Faculty’ (1998): An Underrated Classic Turns 20 – Retro Review
Screenwriter Kevin Williamson burst onto the scene in the mid 1990’s with a speculative screenplay he called Scary Movie. The Weinstein Company and Director Wes Craven produced the script and re-titled it Scream just before release. The rest, as they say, is history. Scream changed horror forever and made its screenwriter …
Read More »Wes Craven’s ‘Scream’ is the Superior Slasher Film Series
I have come here to chew bubblegum and give unpopular horror movie opinions – and I’m all out of bubblegum. At the risk of internet-shaming and hate mail, I want to speak a quiet truth that genre die-hards would consider blasphemy. In a community that worships the films of Halloween, …
Read More »‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’… Twenty Summers Later
It has been twenty years since horror fans first read the note that sent chills down their spines. At the time, I was a seven-year-old who had only fell in love with horror a year prior. Seriously, I fell in love with horror at the perfect time. I had all …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie Is ‘Scream’: A Ghostface Love Story
What’s your favorite scary movie? This question is an easy one for me, that’s for sure… the answer is 1996’s Scream: the horror movie with rules that breaks all the rules at the same time. Scream brought back the slasher genre from the dead along with, in my opinion, the …
Read More »Top Ten Horror Films Of The 1990s
The 1990s were a happening time for me. I was born in ’91, which is a pretty big milestone in my life, and I started watching horror movies shortly after. The films that I watched in those earliest years of my life really shaped my taste in movies, and I’m …
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