"Hello, Sidney." | CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF WES CRAVEN'S SCREAM (1996)

SCREAM (1996) d. Wes Craven (USA)
SCREAM 2 (1997) d. Wes Craven (USA)
SCREAM 3 (2000) d. Wes Craven (USA)
SCRE4M (2011) d. Wes Craven (USA)
SCREAM (2022) d. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin/Tyler Gillett (USA)
SCREAM VI (2023) d. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin/Tyler Gillet (USA)
SCREAM 7 (2026) d. Kevin Williamson (USA)

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Released in 1996, Scream arrived at a crucial moment for horror cinema. Directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, the film helped rescue a genre that many believed had run out of ideas. By the mid-1990s, the slasher cycle that had produced Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street had become increasingly formulaic, with audiences being fed a stream of quote/unquote “psychological thrillers.” True horror was, in many respects, considered “dead.”

QUEER FOR FEAR (2022) Series Review

QUEER FOR FEAR (2022) d. Bryan Fuller

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Join AC and his awesome panel of guests (Anna Maurya and Robin Graves) as they discuss this wonderfully entertaining and informative documentary series (now streaming on Shudder) about the queer perspective of the horror genre, both from its creators and its fans.

THE RETURN(S) OF LAURIE STRODE: HALLOWEEN H20 VS. HALLOWEEN/KILLS/ENDS

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The Night HE Came Home… and SHE Came Back! (And then came back again!)

In 1998, after a downward spiral of increasingly inferior sequels, Jamie Lee Curtis returned to the role that made her a star with HALLOWEEN H20: TWENTY YEARS LATER. The backstory: Laurie Strode faked her death in order to escape her psychotic sibling, and is now living a fragile existence as an alcoholic, overly protective single mother and headmaster of a private California high school. (A move that pleased some fans and enraged others, since the events of the previous three installments are essentially ignored here.)