An average movie

Following the success of ‘Scream’, the studios felt right away that there was a new hype to be taken advantage off so they quickly made as many slasher flicks involving teenagers as possible back in those days. This movie was one of the most famous ones and, unsurprisingly, it was written by Kevin Williamson, yeah, the same guy who wrote ‘Scream’. This time again, you had a cast filled with young and upcoming actors (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Anne Heche) and, actually, it would be pretty funny to re-watch this nowadays, just to check how they looked like back in those days. On the other hand, since I didn’t really care about the whole thing the first time around, it might not be such a great idea after all. Indeed, I really enjoyed ‘Scream’ (I didn’t care much for the sequels though) because it was indeed quite exciting, really entertaining and it had a really nice and refreshnig angle on the horror genre. This movie, on the other hand, was just as formulaic as you can get. I mean, it was rather well made and watchable, I guess, but the plot was terribly pedestrian and I was frankly bored during the whole thing. To conclude, I thought it was pretty average and I don’t think it is really worth a look, expect maybe if you are a huge fan of the genre.

5/10