Scream (1981)

Scream, also known as 'The Outing', is the only film where I've seen pretty much every review pan it. I decide to check it out of curiosity. Oh the horror! The horror when the cameraman slowly pans over to a lantern for the third time! The shock when a man wakes up to find...A DOOR OPENING SLOWLY!'Scream' is so bad, yet oddly enjoyable in my opinion, it deserves at least a remake. If that happens maybe all the mistakes could be corrected.Anyway the plot sees a bunch of rafters sailing down the Rio Grande river. Only they get lost along the way. They then decide to camp in a nearby deserted town (which looks like a set from Blazing Saddles). However when night falls they start to get killed off one by one by an unseen killer.The premise itself is interesting so what can go wrong? Everything. Nothing is explained. It's never explained whether the rafters are family or friends or work colleagues. This defeats any kind of characterisation, making it difficult to care for the victims. Veteran actor Woody Strode enters the film as a sailor (who looks more like a 1940's noir Detective! lol)called Charlie. His performance is the most interesting and still has bad dialogue. The cast are mainly lead by Pepper Martin (the guy who beats up Clark Kent in the diner in Superman 2). Why give somebody with such little experience in acting the lead? Add to that the lighting is bloody awful. There is no gore and you can tell that there are no stunt doubles. This is because you can blatantly tell when the actors are doing the stunts! A scene that I find unintentionally hilarious is when a woman runs across town at night and obviously JUMPS ACROSS THE WIRE-TRAP THE CHARACTERS SET MOMENTS BEFORE!! Lol. The titles theme is god-awful. It sounds like it came from Starsky & Hutch.The opening and ending sequences have hardly any links to the main plot at all. I only had a rough idea but what they consist of is a mantel piece, clock, three porcelain figures. The opening ends with the Butcher having decapitated the Baker and the Candlestick Maker. Then when Charlie shoots the killer the Butcher is decapitated too!!! Dumb dumb Dumb! There's also a painting of who the killer is at the very end. When the end credits rolled I had become so excited I fell off my seat.My advice...Stick to Wes, Neve, Courtney and David.

A bunch of folks on a rafting expedition set up camp in an old abandoned ghost town. However, said town isn't as deserted as they initially expected and pretty soon people are getting picked off by a phantom killer. Sound good? Well, alas it just ain't. Flatly directed by Bryon Quisenberry (who also wrote the talky and uneventful script), with mild gore, no nudity, tame offscreen kills, a sluggish pace, drab and dumb characters who stupidly venture off on their own so they can be easily dispatched by the killer (serves 'em right for being so idiotic!), a meandering story, a frustratingly muddled conclusion, and a severe paucity of both tension and spooky atmosphere (things perk up a bit and get fairly creepy in the last third, but by then it's far too little much too late), this extremely stiff and static stinker proves to be quite a painfully languid and laborious chore to endure. Worse yet, veteran thespians Hank Worden, Gregg Palmer, and Alvy Moore are all wasted in lousy nothing roles. In addition, extra points need to be detracted due to the insufferable antics of irritating comic relief bozo Lou (played with an appalling lack of charm by Joe Allaine). Even the always welcome presence of the ever-awesome Woody Strode as a mysterious sailor fails to alleviate the numbing tedium. Joseph Conlan's monotonous and grossly inappropriate score sounds like it belongs in a generic 70's cop show. Richard Pepin's decent cinematography manages to wring a modicum of gloom-doom mood from the cool rundown location. A total snorefest.

horrendous slasher is awful in every department it is EXTREMELY boring and has some laughable dialog and nothing much happens and you never get to see the actual killer it also has some bad lighting and sloppy direction and badly written as for the gore NOTHING this is just one awful headache inducing slasher and on top of that you have an awful ending to boot this is one of the worst horror movies ever made OKAY i am gonna tell ya right now all the actors suck! and none of them are convincing or likable overall PLEASE!!!!! i am begging you DO NOT RENT THIS MOVIE it's hazardous for your health in fact if you see this at a video store smash it to bits BOMB out of 5

This movie is just plain boring. You have a group of hikers stop at this ghost town, where there is a slasher. But the picture of the movie is soo dark that you can barely make out anything. Film has horrible lighting. And the deaths weren't all that special. Had a few knifings, but the blood dosage was very small. I'm all up for slashings, but it's meaningless without the lots of blood. I guess it wouldn't matter anyway because the picture was so dark. Not worth watching, maybe worth adding to your 80's slasher collection just for the reason it being the first slasher film to be called Scream before the more updated blockbuster "Scream."