I recently re-watched the 1996 film, “Scream” created by Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson. Although some parts of the movie were a bit cheesy, the points at which the director/writer chose to put them feels intentional to go along with the “horror movie tropes” theme throughout the movie. Examples of this are times like when the serial killer boyfriend calls after Sydney while he fake dies and when Cassie is stabbed in slow motion by Ghost face in the opening scene. An interesting choice made for this movie was that almost the entire film was shot with high key lighting. Instead of using the low key lighting to add suspense to the shot, the director chose to do this with the camera angles. During scenes like when Sydney is jumping out the window trying to get away from ghost face, you can only see the outside of the house with her climbing out, and not how close the killer is to catching her. Another aspect to this film that was significant would the costume choices. For example, the killer is always seen wearing a Ghostface costume of all black when killing people which is a color that signifies death.
I personally really enjoyed watching this movie. I chose it because it is one of my favorite horror movies to watch and I thought it’d be nice to watch something spooky for Halloween. I specifically really enjoy the opening scene with Drew Barrymore. I think it is the creepiest in the entire movie, has cool references to other films and that Drew Barrymore’s acting in it really makes it seem realistic. I also like how in this movie they took a more realistic approach and actually had the characters put up solid fights. It was satisfying to actually see someone down the killer in self defense rather than just run upstairs; also, it was just pretty entertaining watch. I also feel it was a good choice to throw people off by having two killers instead of one because that makes narrowing it down even more difficult for the watcher which makes it more fun.
Overall, I really enjoy this movie and I would give it a Be Reel Scale rating of: Good Good
Really nice transition from the objective to the subjective! You zoom in on specific choices and give your audience a clear understanding about what works with the choices. Keep pushing some of that specificity-- I like that you're looking at specific moments, but consider how you can expand on the effects of the choices or the choices themselves to strengthen. Watch out for some of the neutral language in the first paragraph-- much stronger when you're clearly EVALUATING instead of just analyzing. Great title!
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