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I remember catching it accidently at a (non-horror fan) friend's house, and being quite intrigued... yet unmistakebly irritated.
Sure, I'd seen that kind of thing before (The Howling, TCM4) but Scream seemed to trumpet a new kind of smug post-modernism - one that would appeal to the average teenybopper keen to be in-the-know. This was gonna sell, and bound to catch on.
As a purist, this would of course never do :)
The double-killer thing is fine, the action is quite tense in places, the deaths sometimes gory (in the uncut version), the underlying awareness is desperately pandering and rings like tin.
Scary Movie series... now that's how to do it - it's the area between horror and parody I have a problem with.
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