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You can blame Craven for making his oh-so-clever fun horror franchise and pandering to the expectations of his smugly appreciative audience - this means he is a sell-out; this means he is telling us how he is so informed of the horror genre that he can package up all the elements of the classics he can find and flog us his idea that fans of horror have nothing better to do than sit around all day talking film-school shit and "knowing" all about the movies and their "codes".
There are some elements of Scream which really work - the cinematic, tense moments which are detached from the hip and referential nonsense the rest of the film relies on so badly - but the overall effect is bound to rub more than a few folk up the wrong way with its insufferable smugness and new found pomp of a once great horror director (pomp probably first glimpsed when he tried to "save" the Nightmare franchise by being clever...).
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