S1E27 - Scream (1996)

"What's your favorite scary movie?"

In the 90's we had a bit of a slasher hangover after the onslaught of franchises and seemingly endless entries and sequels to those franchises bombarded us in the 80's. So when we rounded the corner in the following decade we needed a hangover cure, so to speak. Something that would refresh us and make us believe that horror wasn't just a set of unrelenting gore fests one after the other. We needed something smarter. Scream was that hangover cure. When it was released it was so fresh, so intelligent, and so legitimately scary that we couldn't help but love it. Not only was it a good scary movie but it was a commentary on all of those old franchises we had become so fatigued by in the 80's. Gather around as we discuss a classic which came out long after many of the best classics were already established, but joined their ranks without dispute anyway...