Thread by @amboinreallife

I've been a horror fan since I was 5 and saw Nightmare On Elm Street. My love for scary was solidified.

In Dec 1996, I came to St. Louis to visit my mom for the holiday. On NYE, we decided to see a movie and she said, "There's a new horror film called #Scream out." #areview

Cell phones were a new concept and the web was in it's infancy. There were no trailers or reviews, but I loved scary so let's do this!

What I watched in that theater BLEW. MY. MIND. A satire about scary movies that WAS a scary movie?! And it worked! It was scary as hell!

I went back home a few days later. I lived in a town that had one movie theater and it had one screen. It would play one movie at a time, for a week. If the movie was *really* good, they would leave it for 2-3 weeks.

Scream ran for 8 weeks. I saw it 5 times in total.

It took what made horror great in the 80's and spun it on it's head. It was funny, suspenseful, & clever. Back then, the deaths were not too gory, but also unique (hello, garage door scene).

It was responsible for a new era in horror. I Know What You Did Last Summer. The Craft.

Movies like Final Destination. They weren't the same formula, but they wouldn't be if Scream hadn't changed the game.

Wes Craven was a genius. When he was bad, he was. But when he was good...he changed EVERYTHING. I grieved him when he died. He brought a lot of joy to my life.

Clearly a die hard fan here. As a die hard fan, I am obligated to watch every installment, no matter how bad I think they may be. And there have been some bad ones! Scream 2 was meh. 3 was awesome. 4 was new, but unexpected. 5 was a little disappointing.

Today, I watched 6.

It was...spectacular. I'm not a *huge* fan of some of the direct references to old (it feels like pandering, like we're not smart enough to understand less direct references), all-in-all...they killed it.

I was *not* happy about a lack of Sidney and the excuse they used for it.

PAY THE WOMAN WHAT SHE IS WORTH, GODDAMN IT!

I went in skeptical for that reason alone, but it was such a good job. I was sure of one of the killers and was pretty sure about another, but I still didn't know why. It kept me guessing. I was yelling at the laptop, more than once.

I laughed out loud on multiple occasions.

Character breaks up a fight with a smile and calmly says, "Hi, yes. Excuse me for a second while I tase your balls." *tases balls*

It brought back all of the right people and gave them all of the right screen time.

I need to watch them all from the beginning. I wish Cam would watch, but she's just not ready for the scary yet.

If you're a fan, you should check it out. It's not the original, nothing ever will be. But it follows a familiar formula while still managing to be relevant & scary.