 Hey guys, um, yeah, there's nothing here. That's because, uh... It's a random, weird white void room. Yeah, this is the murder room. Ooh! That's a hot mug, guys! Before I moved into the new place, Mark and I went and saw Scream, and we wanted to do a review of it, because this is one of Mark's all-time favorite movies. Yeah, it's... Admittedly, the first time I watched it was not this version. I watched Scary Movie first. It muddied the waters for me watching it the first time. I didn't really understand it. I thought it was like, okay. But re-watching it again with Mark, I was able to see a lot more of the references, the images, and just the kind of the plateaus and the stakes that this movie set in terms of being a meta horror movie. For the record, Scary Movie, I also watched before other important movies. Scary Movie ruined usual suspects for me. The end of that movie where you find out that Doofy's not a... Doofy guy walks away. I never actually made that reference. I was watching usual suspects, and I was drinking the coffee cup, and I was like, fuck you, Scary Movie! I mean, the internet wasn't what it is now, so it's not like ICQ could spoil a fucking movie for me. So Scary Movie ruined one of the best twists in modern film. Admittedly, there are a lot of parts while watching Scream that I can't help but refer to Scary Movie. Essentially, Doofy. Doofy, every time I see him, it's Doofy. He's Doofy. Doofy, yeah. Hello, and all I hear is, Don't bother me while I'm playing my moves! Also, like the news scene at the beginning, I had, like, they're panning by everybody in my head. I just go to that scene as Scary Movie, where the black guy is like, We're putting live for black TV! White folks are dead! We're getting the fuck out of here! Let's roll, Jack! Let's go, motherfucker! I just worked with that guy, by the way. That actual guy? The actor from the news, Brad, was in that last movie. Scream really is one of my favorite movies. 1996. I saw it when I was 12, the first time, in theaters. It blew me away from the get- I had already watched, My parents didn't even watch a lot of Shia movies. I watched, I had watched everything it was referencing. I get why you didn't like it. Why it didn't have the same effect on you watching it later, because by the time you're watching it later, I know what you did last summer. Valentine. Funny enough, I hadn't even watched any of those movies. Jason X, which, as we talked about, like, was deliberately ref, like, they changed that movie to make it more Leg Scream. Like, everything Scream did kind of became commonplace. Yeah, it became, like, the status quo in terms of what you were doing, in terms, it updated the horror genre so much. And it was essentially doing what New Nightmare, I tried to do. And it, yeah, directed by this as well. And there's a lot of references, not only to his own work, but to other works. The work is subtle. Like, a lot of the shots in this film are very subtle in terms of setting up payoffs. There's a lot of kind of tongue-in-cheek moments. It's just the whole idea of horror movies in general. And I still can't believe how good of a reference to Primetime, bitch, that he does in this movie. In your dreams. And dreams. So good. Throws the TV down. So good. Like, that's not just, like, tongue-in-cheek. That's not just doing it for placeholder's sake. That's actually really smart. It's an organic reference that works wonderfully. I didn't get it because I hadn't seen the Nightmare movies. But having watched it now, I was like, oh, like, this is a true homage to horror in general, as well as poking fun at it. Yeah. But in a respectful way. I was going to say, it treats it with someone who's just, like, right from the get-go with pulling the psycho bit with Drew Barrymore's character, who's a huge star in 1986. Massive. Just a big star. And they, right away, they kill her. They string her up by her own intestines. In a scene that is way darker than anything else in this fucking movie. Oh, yeah. Even the music. Like, music's done by Marco Bellotrami, too, which is, like, so good. Like, and whenever his music does appear, because there's all this really kind of obscure music. Yeah, there's a lot of 90s rock in this movie. Yeah, and then all of a sudden, Nick Cave with right-right hand comes in. It's like, oh, hey, that's not... Oh, oh, now we're going after that. There's some weird music in this movie. That first scene, like, it sets you up so great. It's got all these wonderful moments. It hits you with things like just the horror knowledge. I mean, I knew what it was, but I don't know if any of my friends, the first time they saw Scream, knew that Pam Voorhees was the killer in the first Jason, or could have told you out of their head. Yeah, I think. Because everyone... It's Jason. It's Jason. It's Jason. It brought in this idea of you need to know your fucking horror movies to get... Not just to get this film, but to properly enjoy what this film is trying to do. And then, you know, we kill our main girl again. It's so fucking dark, like a mom hearing your fucking time. Like way, way darker than anything else in the movie. Oh, no. But we move on to, you know, we're setting up the high school kids. I think it is a deliberate joke. Scary movie makes it overt, but it's a deliberate joke that no one in this movie is a fucking teenager. And then even, like, fricking The Fawz. The Fawz isn't it? The weirdest goddamn principle who's clearly got some baggage. He touches their face. It's like, don't worry, Sidney. This will be over real soon. And then he tells everyone he loves them on The Fawz. I love you all. And then he's full on psychos with some fucking scissors later. And the mask, like The Fawz has this weird thing where he's only in like, does he have a scene outside of that office? Other than when he walks around before going right back to his office. Like, he's literally, it's like that for one day. Probably. And the West Craven reference there being a guy wearing Freddy Krueger's outfit going by the name Fred. This movie's just loaded with horror references and things like, the first time Sidney gets a phone call, she says she doesn't like horror movies because it's always some big breasted bimbo who would rather run upstairs instead of going out the front door like she should. And then the film organically has her not be able to go out the front door and has to run upstairs. And same with Q's too in terms of the door. She opens up the door. There's the music Q you think that someone's behind it. There's not. But they don't. And then they pay that off like 10 minutes later. And then they do that again, reverse at the end of the movie. It would do you as the one who opens up the door. But then it's evil looking Johnny Depp. And I'm in now watching into the second time and having a lot more horror film knowledge and just having watched a lot of Craven's work, I understand these references more. And I guess you can generally watch it as a general horror movie. But this is much more catered towards those who are fans of horror films. And now it kind of makes me want to watch the second screen because I watched that movie a shit time when I was like 12 years old. Let's do the whole screen series before we actually review FBJ. I swear, this is like Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote. It'll happen. And I'll be mediocre. But no, this movie like everything, it hits the things, it gives you these red herrings all over. I love that Randy literally gives away the end of the movie. Yes, he does. He literally says the dad is a red herring. It's definitely Billy. Like he says those words and it's so good. I think for me it's his, it's the age is still there. I don't, I didn't watch this is the proper time. I didn't, it's kind of like for watching Blair Witch Project. I understand that that movie set a lot of precedent, but fuck me if that movie is boring to watch now. And again, for Scream, there are elements that again, I do appreciate and I just understand them and I appreciate them more. Now there are still parts though that kind of age it for me. In terms of the acting, I understand the purpose. But by God, can I never take Fred Willard? No. Matthew Lillard. No, Matthew Lillard. Yeah, he's shaggy. I can take him seriously throughout the whole movie. It's like if I saw this guy at a high school, it'd be like, motherfucker, I'm calling the cops on you. You are definitely some sort of sexual deviant. I love him though in the movie. He does the I'll be right back thing twice. Oh yeah, really good. He's the, that's part. It's a Scream, baby. Oh, the, yeah. Which again, it's a scary movie. But wait, there's more. Some of the actors are just trying way too hard. Maybe that was the direction that they were given. The over-traumaticism of it has not aged in its favor for me. Like if someone were to watch this now, even with the hard movie knowledge that we have, they would still be like, all right. It feels like even just down to, we were talking about the foley half of this movie. Like you hear footsteps loud when people are walking around. Scissors. You hear the loudest scissors of all time. Do we eating a fucking ice cream cone? And he's like, so fucking loud, but you just don't, there's so many things that have kind of shifted in cinema. And the acting style of that is, is one of them. But I mean, I think they're all trying to just, you know, play high school kids. None of them have been high school kids. Like, you know, but I'll be honest, I don't care. I'll watch and have Campbell. They know it too. Like that DOP and like they're just, just framing on her. Great, great. Light hitting the eyes. I really do think that this is, I mean, it's the best horror movie in the nineties in my opinion. Like I really think I, I love movies like Candy Man. I love there's, I could do a fucking top 100 oralist, but Scream just did so much to rekindle the genre. You and I have talked about, you know, lots of shit in the early horror days in the early nineties. This movie revitalized it. It brought horror back and unfortunately created a whole bunch of clones. Yeah. At the drive-in right after we didn't stay because we got to literally. Yeah. By literally doing what it did to revitalize it, it in a sense created a whole new genre of exploitable horror films. Yeah. Like just the whole team. It brought up that thing. It rekindled that 80s slasher thing, but with the new sensibilities and the new way of doing it. And we get, you know, like I said, I know what you did last summer at that franchise. They did, you know, Valentine is very much a Scream clone. They tried to do a bunch of spin-offs. And then eventually would morph into the low budget indie, or indie style kind of horror movie that we see now, which is essentially almost gone full circle in terms of what Scream is, in terms of its over-dramaticism, as well as exploitable marketing and franchising. Yeah. Which they even make a shit of jokes about with being a sequel. Oh, they make a lot of sequel jokes in this. He's like, we're going to be here for the sequel because everyone knows you got to have a sequel. Yep. And they did. Three sequels in a TV series. With two good seasons and apparently the third one sucks balls and has nothing to do with the rest of the season. There's going to be a fifth movie, is there not? Yeah, apparently they're doing a fifth one. Kevin Lambson's writing it. Okay, I know what you're writing it. Yes. So let's say yours. Seven fucking, it's a seven. This movie is fucking perfect as far as I'm concerned. For me, it's a five because I appreciate it, but I can't, I don't have any want to re-watch it. I have that exact same feeling of, okay, I've seen it. I'm literally still thinking I'm going to go like, I'm going to be like, go home tell my wife who hasn't seen the first Scream movie. She hasn't. She's going to come tonight, but we have kids. And for those who are, I can understand the enjoyment of it. And the fact that it's an hour and like 35 minutes, that helps. That helps. It goes real fast. There's not a lot of time to drag. But I will be honest, I would rather watch Scary Movie. I mean, I fucking love Scary Movie. I think it's scary movies. We got to watch that one too. Yeah, I'm fucking going to watch that one. I would be down to that because we're just going to be like, How fucking talking about aging movies, man? The humor in that movie is definitely like, Oh, there's no way you can make that movie now. You can't make Doofy anymore. Mrs. Man, hard no. Most of the racist jokes. Most of the sexist jokes. Most of the gay jokes. Most of the feminist jokes. Like it's literally a movie filled with, you know, Triggering. But I mean, that's triggered the movie. It came out in, you know, 2000s. 2000s went to and 2001, 2002 went anything. Fucking anything. That was the fucking Wild West when it came to jokes and movies. Oh, Wild. That would not fly anymore. Which is like the censor boards are just like, Yeah, whatever, do whatever. Yeah, they were there. I mean, shit, the stuff they got away with in that movie. But that's something for a different day. For sure. Scream is still fucking fantastic. I like all the sequels. The third one leaves a little lacking. But they all, I mean, the third one is my favorite line in the whole fucking movie. When he, when, Who is it? Jenna Jamison? No, Jenna McCartney. I just realized that Leaf Shriver literally makes one fucking appearance in this whole movie. And he's just getting into a car. Yeah, basically. Like they made this movie knowing that they were going to make a third, a second one. But that's still, that's huge. Yeah. That he's just, he's just in it for one minute. He's in the third one. I don't remember if he's in the fourth one. No, I think he dies in the third one. Does he? I thought he died. He might die in the second one. The third one's got the line though. It's Jenny McCartney, not Jenna Jamison. Where he says, Yeah, we changed the script. He's even got a new name. And she's like, What's that? And then the screen voice comes out. He's like, Jamie, get skewed by a fucking pig. And I'm like, It's great. It's a great line. This movie has tons of those. I fucking hang up on me again. And I'll get you like a fish. Fucking yes. Yeah. No, there's a lot of good ones. And like I said, I can understand it. I can appreciate it. And I do enjoy it. Just maybe again, for me, seeing it at a different time. But it still is a pivotal film. Like Mark is right. It is a quintessential film of horror for the 90s. It's hard. And it revitalizes it. It's 94 Citizen Kane is what it is. All right guys. So that's it for us. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, leave a like. And if you're interested in more, subscribe. And let us know if you'd like to see us review the screen movies. Let us know if you'd like to watch the scary movie. Because I'm honestly like, I'm actually way more on board. As long as we don't have to do that whole series, because that series falls way the fuck off. Oh yeah. After three, it just jumps off the cliff. I'm not even sure three is good. Three is my favorite. That's the first one that airplane guys did. Yeah. And so yeah, we'll see. Anyways, all right. So we'll see you guys on the next one. See you. Thanks for watching the video. My name is Nitz. And you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show Undergrads. 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