Death By Beauty Horror Love: My Tribute to the scream generation

Casey: Who's there?
Ghostface: Never say "who's there?" Don't you watch scary movies? It's a death wish. You might as well come out to investigate a strange noise or something.

I am an ultimate horror/slasher movie lover, and my ultimate is the Scream Quad Trilogy !! now you see a real slasher flick can spawn into a massive franchise of movies (just look at the late 70's that started the slasher craze with Halloween, and then your 80's spawning the friday the 13th franchise that spanned 8 movies, not to mention this generations remake and of course theres the Nightmare on Elm street to considor to) so you can see what im saying when a movie is done right, and makes money theres always room for more then one.

now this isn't ALWAYS a great thing, and every franchise has its bad seeds and Scream is no exception they pushed the boundries so far with Scream 3 it was almost to ridiculous to take seriously enough that it wasnt as scary as the previous too, but i still have a soft spot for it.

For me my obsession started the day i saw the first scream movie, i was born too late in the 80's to have been able to apprechiate such gems as Friday the 13th, but i got to be the scream generation which isnt so bad in itself (an i still get to enjoy a good friday the 13th), most if not all Slasher films follow the same basic formula, a few try and change it up here and there maybe adding a aspect of the supernatural as the killer instead of the basic human behind a mask, but sometimes that doesnt work so well it makes it almost hard to believe for the audiance, which i think is why Scream was so scary for the 90's, it touched on the basest of human instinct and reactions, i mean what is more scary then a human being behind a mask thats just batshit crazy enough too kill??? it really makes you think.

Randy: There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. For instance, number one: you can never have sex.
[crowd boos]
Randy: BIG NO NO! BIG NO NO! Sex equals death, okay? Number two: you can never drink or do drugs.
[crowd cheers and raises their bottles]
Randy: The sin factor! It's a sin. It's an extension of number one. And number three: never, ever, ever under any circumstances say, "I'll be right back." Because you won't be back.
Stu: I'm gettin' another beer, you want one?
Randy: Yeah, sure.
Stu: I'll be right back.
[crowd cheers]
Randy: See, you push the laws and you end up dead. Okay, I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife.

I think scream worked so well, because it didnt ACT like a normal slasher movie just going through the motions, it taught a new generation the RULES as quoted above by Randy, the basic rules of any horror slasher movie is anything classified as 'sinful' = death at the hands of a psychotic killer wanting to rip your insides to the outside.

And thats whats made the scream Quad Trilogy so unique every movie they use Randy (or as in Scream 4 a Randy subsitute) to teach us 'the rules' of the game, and every movie ups the ante and the rules get bigger and broader, new sub plots and story lines emerge stuff you thought long buried in the past can come back to bite you, things you didn't know about a lover/brother/mother/sister/father/friend/husband will emerge to be able to create a reason for a new killer to arise and to have reason for why he/she is killing !!!

Randy: [from the trailer] There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate - more blood, more gore - *carnage candy*. And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead

Alot of sequeals can tend to fall pretty flat on their faces, as you see discussed by Randy and a bunch of flim student kids in scream 2, but i found that the S2 sequeal held up well enough it was no original but it faired well enough and i enjoyed it as per Rnady's quote above it was all that and more, it was fun and like the first it never took its self to seriously. I think (and this is honestly just my personal opinion as i have stated i am no movie critic and i dont have that untrained eye for specific thing) it was a really good sequeal, i enjoyed it and didnt find anything to really critcize about it, theres was one thing about it that left me feeling a bit empty and that was the death of Randy, i really thought like he said in the movie "i'd let the geek get the girl" or at least some formulation of this, though his death scene was pretty awesome, i was saddened when they did kill off his charactor !!! but other wise from that like i keep saying i really like Scream 2 as much and the first one !!

Randy: 15 minutes Paul. Damn! Anyway, the reason I am here is to help you so that my death will not be in vain; That my life's work will save some other poor soul from getting mutilated. If this killer does come back and he's for real, there are a few things that you gotta remember. Is this simply another sequel? Well if it is, same rules apply. But-here's the critical thing-if you find yourself dealing with an unexpected back story and a preponderance of exposition, then the sequel rules DO NOT apply. Because you are not dealing with a sequel, you are dealing with the concluding chapter of a trilogy.
Dewey: Trilogy?
Randy: That's right, it's a rarity in the horror field but it does exist, and it is a force to be reckoned with. Because true trilogies are all about going back to the beginning and discovering something that wasn't true from the get go. Godfather, Jedi, all revealed something that we thought was true that wasn't true. So if it is a trilogy you are dealing with, here are some super trilogy rules: 1. You got a killer who's going to be super human. Stabbing him won't work. Shooting him won't work. Basically in the third one you gotta cryogenically freeze his head, decapitate him, or blow him up. 2. Anyone including the main character can die. This means you Syd. I'm sorry. It's the final chapter. It could be fucking 'Reservoir Dogs' by the time this thing is through. Number 3. The past will come back to bite you in the ass. Whatever you think you know about the past, forget it. The past is not at rest. Any sins you think were committed in the past are about to break out and destroy you. So in closing, let me say good luck, god speed, and for some of you, I'll see you soon. 'Cause the rules say some of you ain't gonna make it. I didn't, not if you're watching this tape.

Thus brings us to Scream 3, well what can i say, lameo cheesefest anyone?? lol well okay it was really THAT bad it had some good points to it, the whole plot of actors and actresses on the set of a stab moving being killed off seems basic slasher story line, but the real outcome of the story and the whole 'unexpected back plot' that emerged in the 3rd one was well so, so. though not being one of my favourite i still to this day will watch it, i enjoyed it enough to bare watching it, but generally only if i am doing a scream marathon will i watch scream 3 !!!

So thus bring us to Scream 4 !! and i have to say i was skeptical of it coming out 10 years after the last movie (scream 3) i mean in all that time and everything that had happened from 1, 2 and 3 was there really anything new or different they where going to bring to it !!! could they find a plot to the story that wouldn't just be like a remake of the original !! i had many a fears about scream 4 but being the avaded fan that i am there was NO WAY i was going to miss seeing it.

and well KNOCK ME DOWN WITH A FEATHER i reallllllllllllllllllllllllllly really realllllllly loved it !!! to probably get a big slap on the wrist from slasher lovers around the world i loved it much much more then the original !!! for me one of the main draw cards was Emma Roberts, ive loved her as an actress in her romantic rom coms and girly movies (Wild Child great girly movie i would highly recommen) and i KNEW straight up that she was a really good actress but OMG!! i didn't realize how good till i saw her in scream 4 (i wont elaborate too much, while im sure most everyone living and breathing on the planet have seen the last 3 screams, scream 4 being so new i know a few wont have seen it yet) not to mention with a little help from Hayden Panettiere (who ive never really warmed too till her Scream 4 role) this was one of the BEST movies i've seen in ages !!!!

Sidney Prescott: This... you film your entire high school experience and what, post it on the 'net?
Robbie: Everybody will be doing it some day.
Charlie Walker: It's kind of the one component the killer is missing.
Gale Weathers-Riley: Wait, what do you mean?
Charlie Walker: Well, if you wanna be the new, new version, the killer should be filming the murders.
Robbie: Yeah, it's like the natural next step in the psycho-slasher innovation. I mean you film them all real-time and before you get caught, you upload them into cyberspace.
Charlie Walker: Making your art as immortal as you.
Charlie Walker: [speaking same time as Robbie] Not to implicate him.
Robbie: [speaking same time as Charlie] Not to implicate me.
Sidney Prescott: So who do you think is doing the murders.
Charlie Walker: Well, it's a Stab fanatic clearly. Working on less of a Shrequel and more of a Screamake.
Robbie: Copyright terms, by the way.
Charlie Walker: Cause all there are now are remakes. Only horror studios green-light. I mean, there are still rules, but the rules have changed. The unexpected is the new cliche.
Robbie: Yeah, you gotta have an opening sequence, that blows the doors off, gallop some music video direction and the kill's gotta be way more extreme.
Charlie Walker: Modern audiences get sappy to the rules of the original. So, the reverse has become the new standard. In fact, the only sure-fire way to survive a modern horror movie, you pretty much gotta be gay.
[pause]
Gale Weathers-Riley: So, why are you so sure that the killer is working by the rules of a horror remake?
Robbie: Well, the original Stab structure is pretty apparent.
Charlie Walker: Yeah, two kids killed in a house when their parents are away?
Robbie: And, then the school's 'hot chick' savage beyond recognition.
Charlie Walker: We all know where it goes from there...?
Sidney Prescott: A party.
Charlie Walker: Exactly. A party. Guaranteed third-act-main-cast bloodbath.
Robbie: Fingers crossed on some nudity for a change

The 4th scream wasn't afraid to poke fun of itself !! the opening scenes are halrious and a great laugh its not just going through the motions to get the ball rolling you get a good giggle out of it and a few famous faces as well to boot. the whole story line whilst very reminiscent of the original scream, it doesnt actually copy it. there are actually alot of laughs through the movie but it is also scary to watch and for a whole new generation who didn't grow up with scream (like i didnt get to grow up with friday the 13th) its a great movie to see without having to see the first three.

i recommend listening out in the barn scene where the party happens for the drinking game Robbie and Charlie create (my cousin and i adapted it to the scream Quad trilogy) its a great way to watch the movies. the ending is great theres some awesome oneliners in it when Sydneys trying to escape from the killer in the hospital ( i wont give away the killers idenity) and she grabs the heart starting paddles and the killer is facing Gale Weathers preparing to kill her and the killers ask if she has any final last words and Gales replies with "clear" and the killers response is "clear?" and then Sydney is behind the killer and shouts "Clear" its halrious and not to mention my ULTIMATE line that can be used for ANY Slasher movie anywhere when sydney says to the killer. "The number one rule of remakes, don't fuck with the original" is such a great line !!!!

so there you have it !!! my tribute to the Ultimate slasher flick of MY times the Scream Quad trilogy i recommended and ultimate movie marathon of all 4 movies a bowl of popcorn and few good drinks and some awsome company (especially for the drinking game) and just have a blast with it, at some time i will do a complete and indepth review of each movie on its own, i just want to start of by talking about all 4 movies as a whole !!!!!