Scream Franchise

Throughout Scream 1, a variety of references to other horror films are made. These films include:

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Carrie
The Thing With Two Heads
Dementia 13
Night of the Living Dead
Candyman
The Howling
Frankinstein
The Texas Chainsaw Massicre
Firday the 13th
The Exorcist
Psycho

The Scream films were very popular amongst lovers of the slasher genre as it revealed a different aspect to the killings and the slasher genre as a whole. It also had a number of references to the majority of the most popular horror films ever made.

The props and all of the weaponery used in the Scream movies are similar to the props and the weaponery that were used in other slasher movies, for example the knife that the killer uses is the same weapon used by Michael Myers, Jason and even Freddy, as the knife being a phallic symbol but it is also chosen as the slasher weapon as it recieves a more visceral effect from the audience. This movie revitalized the slasher genre since the 1970's to the 1980's as it used a similar concept to Halloween, which was the concept of the 'tongue in cheek' approach that combined straightforward scares with dialogue that satirized slasher film conventions.

Scream became a major commercial success upon its release, and was one of the highest grossing films of 1996. It was also highly acclaimed by many critics worldwide, who appreciated the film's tongue-in-cheek approach. It received an 84% "fresh" rating on rottentomatoes.com. As a result it spawned two sequels, Scream 2 and Scream 3. A fourth film was announced by The Weinstein Company in July 2008.

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