Your Favorite Scary Movie
How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The ultimate story of the Scream movie franchise, featuring interviews from more than eighty key players and an in-depth exploration of the creation and legacy of the films that revived a dying genre
In Your Favorite Scary Movie, entertainment journalist Ashley Cullins examines the making and impact of the Scream films with behind-the-scenes insight from cast, creators, and crew, as well as sharp analysis on how the movies’ special blend of gruesome violence and humorous self-awareness rewrote the horror playbook. This intimate and thorough history includes brand-new interviews from Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Kevin Williamson, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Jack Quaid, Parker Posey, Hayden Panettiere, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Radio Silence, Roger L. Jackson, and so many more.
Perfect for fans of Scream, horror lovers, and cinephiles, this is the story of how a little movie about a ghost-faced killer terrorizing high schoolers overcame countless obstacles to become an historic success that still has audiences screaming to this day.
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The Scream film franchise reinvented and revolutionized the horror genre, according to this thorough debut study from entertainment journalist Cullins. When Kevin Williamson wrote the screenplay for the original movie in the mid-1990s, the horror genre had imploded since its 1970s and 1980s heyday and was rife with uninspired content. Cullins explains how Williamson changed the game by crafting a self-aware film, one that blended comedy and horror so audiences would "laugh with the characters instead of at them." Moviegoers relished the film's surprise twists, like the killing of the character played by Drew Barrymore, the film's biggest star, in the opening scene, and disturbing plot: a masked serial killer targets high schoolers in a suburban town. Cullins explores how the sequels employed metacommentary; Scream 3, for example, was a slasher film about a slasher film, filled with critiques of Hollywood's mistreatment of women. The series kept going (the seventh is in development) because, Cullins explains, Williamson "had created a brilliant concept that could be picked up and reset in any place and any time." Filled with poignant analyses and extensive interviews with the cast and crew—including David Arquette, Neve Campbell, and Parker Posey—Cullins's tribute makes clear the staying power of the films. Scream fans will have a blast.
