{"id":2011,"date":"2011-04-17T06:21:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2011-04-17T06:21:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T10:21:53","slug":"scream-4-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/17\/scream-4-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream 4 (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What with so many horror movies offering up a surprise ending we will not see coming for the last ten years, it’s a given that the lure for “Scream 4” is not so much the surprise ending and the revelation, but the nostalgia. Hallelujah Wes Craven on the way to career hell is finally taking “Scream” seriously again in what promises to be a reboot to please the fans and no one else. The problem with “Scream 4” or “Scre4m” is the inability to be about as entertaining as it possibly can. The only thing worse than a bad horror movie is a boring one and “Scream 4” manages to be boring in about as many wave lengths as possible, delving in to the same old tropes we saw in the original series, and lacking the balls to even off core characters to keep us grinding our teeth and our guards low.<\/p>\n

“Scream 4” is essentially the next step in to modern horror territory where Craven is capable of rebooting his own series on his terms before the studios green light another film in the series and hand it off to younger more capable creative minds. From this point on we’ve gone a decade through Woodsboro and so much has happened. Not to the town but to society. 9\/11, Columbine, remakes, prequels, reboots, the whole nine yards and none of it has affected the small town beyond their inability to accept the past as truth and sensationalize it in to an endless stream of bad movies called “Stab.”<\/p>\n

“One generation’s tragedy is another’s joke,” declares character Dwight, another in a line of immortal “Scream” characters who can never seem to die when they have to. Of course, Craven operates under the assumption that we’re expecting the unexpected so what’s expected occurs and what’s unexpected never quite. We want predictable and the same old crapola, so Craven delivers on audience expectations staging the same old cliches from the first film, and garnering a meta-horror film that trots out the exact twists and turns we want, and never quite the plot twists we don’t.<\/p>\n

Craven thinks if he runs on what’s popular and old hat that “Scream 4” is an instant hit creatively, and he fails to show his grasping of modern horror yet again. Even though there is the aside citing the new rules, the new standards, and the new expectations among horror’s new brood. And of course Craven is never above pointing out the remake craze, a trend he’s mastered all on his own.\u00a0 “Scream 4” would inspire me to talk more about it if it had much more to talk about, in the end. But as such as it stands as a fairly routine fourth installment that doesn’t do much with the new material beyond giving us what we presume to be the standard for “Scream.” Nothing more. Nothing less. And that’s why it fails to be a cut above the rest and merely another boring rehash that actually had me praying for a remake.<\/p>\n

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