Scream 4 - The Impact of Filming High School Experiences
Sidney:
This... You film your entire high school experience, and, what, post it on the net?
Robbie:
Everybody will be doing it some day.
Charlie:
It's kind of the one component the killer is missing.
Gale:
Wait, what do you mean?
Charlie:
Well, if you wanna be the new, new version, the killer should be filming the murders.
Robbie:
Yeah, it's like the natural next step in the psycho-slasher innovation. I mean, you film them all real-time, and before you get caught, you upload them into cyberspace.
Charlie: [''Speaking the same time as Robbie'']
Making your art as immortal as you. Not to implicate him.
Robbie: [''Speaking simultaneously with Charlie'']
Not to implicate me.
Sidney:
So, who do you think is doing the murders?
Charlie:
Well, it's a Stab fanatic, clearly. Working on less of a Shrequel and more of a Screamake.
Robbie Mercer:
Copyright terms, by the way.
Charlie:
Cause all there are now are remakes. Only horror studios green-light. I mean, there are still rules, but the rules have changed. The unexpected is the new cliche.
Robbie:
Yeah, you gotta have an opening sequence that blows the doors off - gallop some music video direction and the kill's gotta be way more extreme.
Charlie: [''Pause'']
Modern audiences get sappy to the rules of the original. So, the reverse has become the new standard. In fact, the only sure-fire way to survive a modern horror movie, you pretty much gotta be gay.
Gale:
So, why are you so sure that the killer is working by the rules of a horror remake?
Robbie:
Well, the original Stab structure is pretty apparent.
Charlie:
Yeah, two kids killed in a house when their parents are away?
Robbie:
And, then the school's hot chick savage beyond recognition.
Charlie:
We all know where it goes from there...?
Sidney:
A party.
Charlie:
Exactly. A party. Guaranteed third-act-main-cast bloodbath.
Robbie:
Fingers crossed on some nudity for a change...
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