Scream 4. Here it comes! - Page 2

Matt, I covered that.

"Anniversary Movie". By that, I meant H20. People either didn't view it as a sequel or viewed it as a 3rd sequel to the original franchise. A couple of people in my HS thought it was the first movie in the series (yeah, they lived under a rock). it also had a name going for it and an idea that sounded good on paper.

I'll give u that H8 did ok too. But, I still to this day don't know why. I thought it was one of the worst movies ever made. It wasn't the minor hit H20 was and still made about half of what H20 did. IMO, it could very well be the worst movie that any of these franchises ever spawned.

Basically, the worst movies in each series tended to perform the worst, so I might be off a bit. People might have just noticed.

Friday 8/JGTH/JX/N5/H5/H6 were all the underperformers. Though judging from the list, it shouldnt really surprise anyone. Those were probably by many accounts the worst movies in each series.

Freddy's Dead and Halloween 8 (to me the worst of each respective series) were both abominations that somehow managed to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Both were truly terrible.

Though I did feel there was something a tad good somewhere in the H6 Producers cut. Shame most nobody will ever see it. Nightmare 5 had a few creative moments (and Alice was an ok character), but just doesnt work for me. It has always just seemed very boring to me even from the first time I saw it. I will give it one thing. The movie looks great on DVD, but most of the Elm Street's do.

Many will not agree with me, but I would still take ELm Street 2 and day of the week over Freddy's Dead. At least you had the neat beginning and a few moments sprinkled throughout. Freddy was still somewhat frightening as well. Oh well, thats the way things go.

Ryan, the main thing is that VERY VERY VERY few horror movies make it over to the mainstream crowd. For whatever reasons, SCREAM did, although I honestly believe the studio lied about how much money it did make. I remember seeing it opening day, first screening and with three other people. One was my father.

Even if critics said FRIDAY THE 13th PART 20 was better than CITIZEN KANE, the majority of people wouldn't go see it. The horror genre has been looked down upon since the 1920s and this here will never change. The sad truth is that many look at horror fans as freaks so the films will never get the credit they deserve but many times, they don't deserve ANY credit.

Craven has made some terrible films but you've gotta give him credit wity ANOES and SCREAM. He got the mainstream crowds into the theaters and got good to great reviews from critics, which is very hard to do with a horror film.

It's funny though that Friday VI might have been considered a great box office success. Since Friday V had a near 50% dropoff from Part IV, the producers might have expected a similar dropoff from Part VI (50% less than part V). Since it only made slightly less than than Part V, it might've been considered a great success and have been credited with staving off a massively ailing franchise.

It's interesting to note that even those there's some massive flucuation in grosses, all entries in the Nightmare, Friday and Halloween franchises have been profitable, at the very least, in terms of a gross-to-cost ratios. I would say they've been especially profitable in the cable and video markets as well since almost everybody I knew, at the time, had at least rented them.

Also, the original Scream was truly a word of mouth film. I remember it having a very modest opening weekend, but it really hung in there, and bit by bit, managed to make itself over $100 million at the box office.

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Given that Scream's almost 12 years old, we'd be probably more likely to see a remake than a sequel.

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The sequels sucked anyway. They were just tired and stupid, whereas the first one was a nifty horror film. An R rated horror film! Today it would be PG-13 and complete crap.

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Neve will be the killer in this one, followed by the Sequal, Sydney VS Freddy.

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I made the common mistake of reading nearly the entire first page, getting geeked out, before I realized this is a three year old thread. My favorite type of horror film is a slasher flick, so I'll take what I can get. The Scream series has'nt let me down and I'll give the fourth a chance if it's ever made.

Ryan