Scream (2022) [Blu-ray] [Region A & B & C]

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the old Blu-ray palette, but here, the colors breathe in natural beauty and firm command of tonal accuracy. More than that, the extremes are handled

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A small town, a series of brutal murders of the local teenage population and a masked killer. Taken at its most basic, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson conjured up a classic premise that works on that most base of levels. A clinically effective murder mystery, with intrigue about a past evil and sense of how this has affected the whole town, it's tightly plotted and works incredibly well. But layer on top of that, that ironic and meta-understanding of the genre and a superb set of characters that are both timeless stereotypes and beautifully subverted tropes in themselves, and the film bursts into life in a way that a decade of horror films from across the spectrum of horror never really managed and has struggled to recapture since. personality to the roles; even the returning favorites sometimes feel more like pawns rather than critical pieces. All of that said, the film does work; well defined, and refined 4K image is obvious; fans who have been living on the decade-old Blu-ray will find this to be a very welcome addition to As with the first Scream 4K release, this disc gives us Scream 2 as it always should have looked and shows how far home video has now come. Hopefully gone are the days of artificially manipulating the image to what studios think audiences want to see and if 4K does nothing else but give us film as it simply looked (or as close to as possible in the digital world) in the cinema, then long may it reign supreme in the home video market. A stellar 4K re-release.Whilst only maybe film nerds knew the rules of a horror movie when the first Scream came out, a year later when this sequel hit cinemas, everyone knew the rules of being a ‘sequel’… bigger, more excessive and just worse. These weren’t just rules, these were recognisable facts in all but the hardiest of cases (Jim Cameron notwithstanding). film, in some places a carbon copy, in some ways its own entity, but all of that plays into the plot. Though the torch has been passed to new

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The Dolby Vision color grading does not push tones to the extreme, but natural greens are appropriately deep and vibrant, as is a yellow school bus,Long familiar with the genre, director Wes Craven clearly shows he's having fun with the material and many of its self-referential aspects. He doesn't shy away from satirizing the horror films of his peers or his own works. He knowingly exposes many of the flaws in a worn-out plot structure as well as admiration for some its finer features, namely the mystery and suspense. The legendary director shows the careful hand of an experienced filmmaker, pacing the scares and tension with a patience that builds. The camera lingers with moody silence just long enough before breaking into typical jump tactics. It's a technical characteristic that can be appreciated as the work of a skilled storyteller, and Craven reveals he hasn't lost touch of that with 'Scream.' Things get considerably more complex as a gaggle of supporting characters wander into the fray, including Dewey (David Arquette), a bumbling police deputy, Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), an aspiring news reporter, and in a very funny portrayal, Jamie Kennedy as the resident horror film buff of the group, Randy Meeks. Randy may indeed be the expert among the crowd, but each of these characters seems only too well informed about the ins and outs of horror film conventions, and that very awareness is part of what gives Scream its delicious comedic edge as well as its undeniably visceral scare factor. Somehow it's even scarier when you know, or at least suspect, what's coming, and Scream manages to play up those self-aware fears, momentarily discount them, and then deliver a killer blow just a beat or two later. And it does this over and over again with surprising alacrity and effectiveness. thrilled, and there are few UHDs that prove so drastically better than their Blu-ray counterparts as this. Sadly, that speaks to the bad state in which Scream benefits from some very (ahem) sharp writing by Williamson, a man who obviously loves the horror genre without sacrificing a clearheaded and often hilarious analysis of the genre's own hyperbolic excesses. Williamson manages to skewer just about every convention of modern horror films while still delivering palpable scares, no mean feat. Horror guru Wes Craven stages this all with pitch perfect precision. Craven wisely lets the dialogue deliver the irony and laughs, while his expert framing and judiciously controlled editing provide the scares. Craven also elicits uniformly excellent work from the ensemble cast. Kennedy is hilarious in his scenes, and Campbell is winsome and well balanced between steely resolve and quivering fear. The best moments in Scream are undoubtedly the lunatic finale where the denouement of who is actually visiting this carnage on peaceful little Woodsboro is delivered with an absolutely hilarious blend of big laughs and real thrills, all the while mining virtually each and every well worn cliché of horror movie climaxes. speak, alive. However, the film also changes things up quite a bit as well. The opening scene is in many ways a play-by-play remake of the original,