2000s horror was often really misanthropic and sexist and torture-heavy for its own sake, and it was really jarring compared to how SCREAM handled, say, Dewey, who was retroactively written to survive the first movie because too many viewers cared about himhttps://twitter.com/inigo_purcell/status/1319064526910902274 …
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There's a uniquely charming quality to '90s teen horror -- Williamson, in particular -- in that they treat these horror setups almost like hangout movies, where you're mostly watching the characters shoot the shit and they just occasionally get beheaded. It's why I like them.
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Yeah a huge part of why the big reveal in Scream worked and felt real was that we'd gotten to know Stu and Billy pretty well as just two teenage guys you could imagine going to school with, and whom you could imagine Sidney and Tatum falling for despite their teen-boy-ness
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And they worked hard on the reveal that they're murderers not really being directly foreshadowed by their wacky hangout convo from before but not actually contradicting it either Most dudes who love annoying their gfs with edgygrossout humor aren't murderers, but they *could* be
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