Thursday, 12 October 2017

Perspectives: Postmodernism in Scream

Scream Poster
Scream is a pastiche of many other prevailing horror movies, although scream acknowledge's this by showcasing the overabundant horror genre where the heroine is a virgin who always ends up being the final girl while her hard partying friends are slaughtered. A quote from The heroine Sydney about the genre reads "What's the point? They're all the same. Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can't act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. It's insulting."  

The characteristic of defining the horror genre in Scream where the leads know horror movies inside and out makes Scream fresh and innovative and is one of the substanstoul reasons why Scream is adored by critics and fans as it has moved away from the horror trope's. 

Scream is avant-garde as it moves away from mimicry in the horror genre as it transformed the slasher movie into the Art of murder, something that Scream has taken inspiration from the Hickcock classic "Psycho". 

Scream paved the way for the horror genre as it made millions Hollywood latched onto the notion of telling the horror genre in a more pastiched and avant-garde way.







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