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Originally posted by bwind22
I thought Scream was hilarious when I first saw it! As well as thinking it was an excellent fresh, inventive horror film.
It totally revived the teen horror genre in the mid/late 90s.
Calling it anything other than 'Horror' (Or horror with another sub-genre attached.) would be just ridiculous.
And to be quite honest, I'm not sure if I know of a genre called 'Thriller'. Those types of movies tend to fall under either drama or action (or horror), depending on the amount of talking vs. explosions.
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Yeh I really enjoyed this when it came out. I liked how it wasn't trying to disguise itself as a psychological thriller (which a lot of mid to late 90s genre films did after the success of Silence Of The Lambs, Jennifer 8, Basic Instinct, ect.....). It was a slasher that wore its good and bad conventions on its sleeve to great effect. Pity a lot of unoriginal people had to go and fuck it up by making countless copycat films. Another case of the industry milking the cash cow at the expense of artistic integrity.