Nearly 30 full years after it became a word-of-mouth runaway success at the box office, the original Scream is back in theaters. At thousands of Regal and AMC theaters nationwide, the slasher film is playing from Halloween weekend to Wednesday, November 4.
The Regal Facebook account promoted the event earlier this month by reintroducing the Ghostface-themed popcorn bucket. “Let’s face it baby, these days, you gotta have scary merch,” the account posted.
Of course, for most viewers the merch is beside the point. The big question is simple: after all these years and all those copycat movies trying to cash in on this film’s success, does Scream still hold up?
‘Scream’ Is Still Great 30 Years Later
As many of the fans leaving the theater Friday night can confirm: Scream still slaps. The opening sequence with Drew Barrymore is a suspenseful masterpiece no matter how many times you watch it, and all the little clues pointing you towards the final Ghostface reveal are still exciting even when you know the ending.
The film’s bizarre mixing of self-aware humor with genuine horror stays fresh too, even if countless movies have since attempted the same balancing act. It should not be possible for this movie to jump so quickly between goofy and suspenseful, but it is. Ghostface’s clumsy moments should be a tone-killer, and the meta commentary should break the immersion, but somehow they don’t. After so many movies have failed to catch Scream‘s magic, it’s still not clear exactly how this first film pulled it off.
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Scream is the pacing. This film moves, in a way that none of its sequels could ever manage. It’s perhaps the fastest hour and fifty-one minutes in horror history.
The First ‘Scream’ Is the Series’ Only True Whodunnit
What makes this movie especially fun is that it’s the only Scream where it genuinely feels like anyone could be the killer. Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), Randy (Jamie Kennedy) and Dewey (David Arquette) may be beloved iconic characters, but fans didn’t know that when they first appeared.
Besides Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), basically every character in this film is placed under the audience’s suspicion. Is Dewey really a kindhearted goof, for instance, or is that all an act? That ambiguity makes him so much more compelling and unsettling here, as it does for everyone around him.
Most of the Scream sequels would center on a handful of returning survivors, which was a double-edged sword. Yes, the chase sequences could be extra suspenseful because the viewers have a deeper connection to the characters being chased, but those returning characters take up time that could be going towards developing a believable cast of compelling suspects.
Every Scream sequel has struggled with its killer reveal because none of them have had the time to flesh out its suspects ahead of time. In that respect, Scream still stands alone. It’s the only movie in the series to not carry the burden of what came before, that had the full creative freedom to do whatever it wanted with any of its characters. It’s been 30 years, and no Scream film since has ever felt so fresh.
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