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What Scream spawned was a new generation of self-aware, knowing 'party' horror movies - specifically aimed at excitable teenyboppers and self-aware, knowing twentysomethings.
This safely in place, Kevin Williamson then went on to further irony in his I Know What You Did Last Summer, then thankfully fell pretty much flat on his face with Teaching Mrs Tingle and Cursed (another collaboration with sellout hack Wes Craven) after the irritating teen-angst drama series Dawson's Creek.
Things are kind of steadying themselves now with the arrival of nasty, torture mainstream horror (Hostel, Saw et al) that doesn't need to seep itself in clever references, so it will be interesting to see where the mainstream genre goes from here.
Perhaps the likes of Williamson can adapt his style, or maybe he will just fade away like Craven should have done years ago when he stopped making decent films.
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