Maybe there will be an oversaturation of ''Scream''-inspired horror films someday soon, but this one feels fresh.
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The film is competently made, and the attractive cast emotes and screams energetically.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Like Frankenstein's monster before the lightning strikes, it's all recycled cold flesh and bolts, without a twitch of originality.
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
With each death, the film becomes less interesting. By the end, it's just a routine slasher flick with a too-predictable final "twist."
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A premise so rock-solid, so guaranteed to please, that it almost doesn't matter that the movie is otherwise a routine slasher, and not a particularly scary one.
Spottily directed and lacking the dubious merits of even the Friday the 13th franchise, this is one slasher film that should die a quick and lonely box-office death.
A low-voltage drive-in movie, made strictly by the book.
25
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
It's simply terrible.
20
Empire
Empire
Director Blanks delivers a wholly pedestrian feature debut in this by-numbers teen horror flick that could give you the impression Scream never really happened.