They might know the rules, but they still get “got.” If that realization isn’t chilling in itself, read it again. With its intentional destruction of this barrier, we now can’t say that a character got killed for not knowing the tropes that exist in the genre. Namely, Scream destroyed the illusion that the people on the screen aren’t like you and me. With its tongue-in-cheek reference to the so-called rules of survival in horror films, it shatters a construct of separation between audience and characters that had existed for years. That movie is Scream, a decades-later commentary on the slasher subgenre. The best way to learn about horror is from a movie that teaches horror - ins and outs alike. From this aberration to the feeling of isolation conveyed in the screenplay, there’s little else you can do to make this story a masterclass in terror. Both parasite and predator, its unnerving intelligence and perseverance are enough to set a reader’s teeth on edge for an hour or more. The utter alienness of this creature demonstrates why Alien was a genius title for the piece. There’s nothing wrong with that until you realize that the xenomorph is a creature that uses humans for both purposes. The species that takes out your friendly neighborhood Nostromo ship is just like you and me - it needs to eat and reproduce. Sometimes a movie isn’t about evil outright, but about survival. The intimately creepy POV catches you off-guard early on, and the darkness of that first encounter lingers on as the shape of this character - his mere outline - becomes the thing of nightmares.Įven the inhuman silence he possesses is disquieting to audiences everywhere, and it’s partly why he lives on for decades more as the killer, the vessel of evil itself, we’ve feared for so long. Go figure, right? Reinvigorating an entire movement in film history, John Carpenter put the nightmare we now call Michael Myers onto the big screen. Few movies are as iconic of the season as the one titled Halloween.
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