Wes Craven’s Scream franchise has long been thought of as a series of films that parody their traditional predecessors. The first (1996) examines the various horror-movie rules and regulations that allow virgins to live, sexually experienced teenagers to die, and the sin of declaring “I’ll be right back.” Scream 2 (1997) parodies the formula for sequels while […]

 

 

In 1996, Drew Barrymore was trapped in her home, voyeurized through her many floor to ceiling windows, eventually stabbed through the heart, gutted groin to sternum, and hung from a tree with her entrails on display for her mother and father, who happened to come home shortly after. Thus began a fresh imagining in the horror genre […]