I think that the film 'Scream' is not the best film that I have seen. I think this because of it's sheer predictability and cheap budgeting.
The costumes and SFX look cheap and tacky compared to other films in the same genre as this one. The events that we see unfold seem too predictable as we can almost guess what is about to happen before it does. This could however be done delibrately as the two killers were obsessed with horror movies themselves and so they use the most predictable situations to find in a horror movie.
The events that happen are not very scary as the tense classical music gives the scenes more of a sense of tension and scare. The film is reliant on the music as the storyline is pretty weak: Girl gets left home alone, murderer tries to kill her, she escapes near-certain death about five-six times, watching her friends and neighbours being killed off in the process but only cares about getting away herself... etc.
The characters we do meet are relatively irritating and have personalities that grate on you as an audience leaving us wanting them all to die - there is no sob story making us feel for the characters.
I would much prefer to watch a high budget recent horror film with modern SFX and a better rated cast list.
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