An absolute DISGRACE to the memory of the legendary Wes Craven!
Where to start... Right from the beginning when they announced a TV show instead of a new movie, my heart sank deep. I've been begging and hoping for a fifth movie to conclude the Scream series once and for all, but 4 years after, the master himself has passed away and Bob Weinstein was a stubborn moron, who missed his chance to earn big money… I love the Scream series, and I've been a huge fan, ever since I first watched the movies all the way back in 2008.
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I've watched most of Wes' movies, and he's by far my favorite horror director. Both "Scream" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" has made a huge impact on me, more so than any other horror series. But this… "show" is just a giant middle finger to fans' faces everywhere, and a disgrace to the late Wes Craven.
Like I said, I never really anticipated this series. But I occasionally read up on news & rumors, just in case it turned out to be an ambitious project after all. Rumors that it would have super natural elements and that the killer might be super natural, instantly turned me off and the news that it would be a MTV show just ruined it for me... I can't stand any MTV show, with their incredibly low-budget, amateurish cinematography and overall general artificial "modern" style, product placements and actors, all cater to brain-dead teens who thinks maps didn't exist before Google was invented. However, I decided to give it a go, once I found out about the unfortunate passing of Sir Craven a couple of weeks ago.
http://moviesbox.live/
Well, first of all, this isn't ANYTHING like Scream AT ALL! It takes place in a COMPLETELY different town, which is not okay at all! It's like if the "Nightmare" films all took place anywhere else but Elm Street! Secondly, the Killer doesn't even wear the iconic Ghostface mask and robe, but instead a 5$ cheap plastic mask, that looks like something bought from Toys 'R' Us, and a freakin' RAINCOAT! Could it possibly be any more ridiculous and further away from anything "horror" like.
It would be like if Jason Voorhees didn't wear his iconic hockey mask and machete, but instead a chainsaw and a skeleton mask. It wouldn't be anything like Friday the 13th! You can't just make a show called "Scream" and not have it have the characteristic defining franchise elements, such as the iconic Ghostface costume and the iconic Ghostface VOICE! I absolutely HATE the new voice, it isn't anything like Roger Jackson's. His voice was genuinely terrifying and you instantly knew that something was about to go down, once you heard his distinctive voice!
The whole "mystery" ordeal (whodunit?) is gone too. They tricked the viewer into believing that the person who was revealed to be the killer in the finale, couldn't be him (what is "he" called anyway? He isn't Ghostface!). But not in a clever way like the movies, more like a really lazy way. The final reveal/showdown was the most anti-climactic moment in the franchise's history. I mean, even Scream 3's reveal was pretty climactic! The Killer is anything but scary, the persona is as far away from the spirit of "Scream" as can be.
The show is more like a teenage drama, it doesn't even contain horror elements at all. The directorial style is also very unfitting for horror movies/shows, but it fits perfectly with the drama-queen style of MTV shows. It's like watching Twilight the TV show (not the Twilight Zone, but the vampire movies). Constant unnecessary teenage BS drama, that the viewers couldn't give two $hits about, and no horror or suspense whatsoever during the ENTIRE show! The only thing horrifying about this show, is the acting and unintentionally comical deaths and complete lack of plot. It's as if the writers couldn't figure out where they wanted to go with the story, so they wrote a bunch of random things on a piece of paper and put it in the word blender. Literally nothing was interesting about any of the episodes at all. We didn't care for any of the characters, unlike in the movies, so whether they died or not was completely pointless.
The new Sidney Prescott was just slightly below average and the new Randy was tolerable at times, but still overall annoying. It was nice with the homages to the movies and a couple of "Elm Street" references were also thrown in, but it still felt forced and didn't really fit in. Overall, unless you're a hardcore fan of Wes and in particular his "Scream" movies, don't bother with this. The show is not just bad, it's seriously awful. My hopes for a fifth Scream movie, will never be fulfilled.
Without Wes, this series is nothing. If only Bob Wienerstein wasn't such a greedy corporate bastard, he would've been able to see past his ridiculously high expectations for the box office gross, and realize that it was because the series had been dead for over 10 years, and Wes would've gotten to make his real final chapter, to close this milestone franchise. But it's too late now. Wienerstein is an incompetent idiot for purposely holding back this franchise and loose out on hundreds of millions of dollars with new films.
http://365warmovies.com/
Where to start... Right from the beginning when they announced a TV show instead of a new movie, my heart sank deep. I've been begging and hoping for a fifth movie to conclude the Scream series once and for all, but 4 years after, the master himself has passed away and Bob Weinstein was a stubborn moron, who missed his chance to earn big money… I love the Scream series, and I've been a huge fan, ever since I first watched the movies all the way back in 2008.
https://365movies.is/
I've watched most of Wes' movies, and he's by far my favorite horror director. Both "Scream" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" has made a huge impact on me, more so than any other horror series. But this… "show" is just a giant middle finger to fans' faces everywhere, and a disgrace to the late Wes Craven.
Like I said, I never really anticipated this series. But I occasionally read up on news & rumors, just in case it turned out to be an ambitious project after all. Rumors that it would have super natural elements and that the killer might be super natural, instantly turned me off and the news that it would be a MTV show just ruined it for me... I can't stand any MTV show, with their incredibly low-budget, amateurish cinematography and overall general artificial "modern" style, product placements and actors, all cater to brain-dead teens who thinks maps didn't exist before Google was invented. However, I decided to give it a go, once I found out about the unfortunate passing of Sir Craven a couple of weeks ago.
http://moviesbox.live/
Well, first of all, this isn't ANYTHING like Scream AT ALL! It takes place in a COMPLETELY different town, which is not okay at all! It's like if the "Nightmare" films all took place anywhere else but Elm Street! Secondly, the Killer doesn't even wear the iconic Ghostface mask and robe, but instead a 5$ cheap plastic mask, that looks like something bought from Toys 'R' Us, and a freakin' RAINCOAT! Could it possibly be any more ridiculous and further away from anything "horror" like.
It would be like if Jason Voorhees didn't wear his iconic hockey mask and machete, but instead a chainsaw and a skeleton mask. It wouldn't be anything like Friday the 13th! You can't just make a show called "Scream" and not have it have the characteristic defining franchise elements, such as the iconic Ghostface costume and the iconic Ghostface VOICE! I absolutely HATE the new voice, it isn't anything like Roger Jackson's. His voice was genuinely terrifying and you instantly knew that something was about to go down, once you heard his distinctive voice!
The whole "mystery" ordeal (whodunit?) is gone too. They tricked the viewer into believing that the person who was revealed to be the killer in the finale, couldn't be him (what is "he" called anyway? He isn't Ghostface!). But not in a clever way like the movies, more like a really lazy way. The final reveal/showdown was the most anti-climactic moment in the franchise's history. I mean, even Scream 3's reveal was pretty climactic! The Killer is anything but scary, the persona is as far away from the spirit of "Scream" as can be.
The show is more like a teenage drama, it doesn't even contain horror elements at all. The directorial style is also very unfitting for horror movies/shows, but it fits perfectly with the drama-queen style of MTV shows. It's like watching Twilight the TV show (not the Twilight Zone, but the vampire movies). Constant unnecessary teenage BS drama, that the viewers couldn't give two $hits about, and no horror or suspense whatsoever during the ENTIRE show! The only thing horrifying about this show, is the acting and unintentionally comical deaths and complete lack of plot. It's as if the writers couldn't figure out where they wanted to go with the story, so they wrote a bunch of random things on a piece of paper and put it in the word blender. Literally nothing was interesting about any of the episodes at all. We didn't care for any of the characters, unlike in the movies, so whether they died or not was completely pointless.
The new Sidney Prescott was just slightly below average and the new Randy was tolerable at times, but still overall annoying. It was nice with the homages to the movies and a couple of "Elm Street" references were also thrown in, but it still felt forced and didn't really fit in. Overall, unless you're a hardcore fan of Wes and in particular his "Scream" movies, don't bother with this. The show is not just bad, it's seriously awful. My hopes for a fifth Scream movie, will never be fulfilled.
Without Wes, this series is nothing. If only Bob Wienerstein wasn't such a greedy corporate bastard, he would've been able to see past his ridiculously high expectations for the box office gross, and realize that it was because the series had been dead for over 10 years, and Wes would've gotten to make his real final chapter, to close this milestone franchise. But it's too late now. Wienerstein is an incompetent idiot for purposely holding back this franchise and loose out on hundreds of millions of dollars with new films.
http://365warmovies.com/
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