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Scary Movie: References to other horror movies

-Scream
-I know what you did last summer
- Halloween
- Sixth Sense
-The Blair Witch Project
-The Matrix
-The Usual Suspects

Scream : References to other horror movies:

- A nightmare on elm street
- Halloween
- Psycho
- Night of the living dead
- Stab
- The town that dreaded sundown
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Pastiche – Postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres and story lines to create a new form. – this is relevant to scream as the director has used different movies of different genres and embedded into scream for example ‘ A nightmare on elm street’ as its a SciFi.

Irony – an outcome of events that is the opposite of what was or might have been expected- This is relevant to scream as it is ironic how the teenagers themselves know the typical conventions of slasher films however they still manage to become a frightened victim of one.

Intertextuality - this is the shaping of texts meanings by other texts it can refer to an authors borrowing and transformation of a prior text.- This is relevant as the film itself makes reference to other films such as A Nightmare on Elmstreet and Halloween.

Scream Franchise:

Scream – 1966 – Directed by Wes Craven who also directed A nightmare on elmstreet.
It revitalized the Slasher film genre in the mid 1990’s.
The two main films which are referred to throughout the film are Halloween and Nightmare on elm street.
Scream was one of the highest grossing films of 1996
A signature device, started in Scream and continued in Scream 2 and Scream 3, was the typical "rules" for the slasher subgenre of horror movies being stated by the characters. These were known as:

You may not survive the movie if you have sex.
You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs.
You may not survive the movie if you say "I'll be right back","Hello?" or "Who's there?"
Scream has two sequels, Scream 2 and Scream 3. A fourth film was announced by The Weinstein Company in July 2008.

Scream (1996):
Scream 2 (1997):
Scream 3 (1999):



Friday 13th Franchise

Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, and tie-in merchandise.

The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character of Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence of the teenage counselors.

Jason is featured in all of the films, either as the killer or as the motivation for the killings. The original film was written by Victor Miller, and was produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham; neither returned to write or direct any of the sequels.
The original film was created to cash in on the success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), and its own success led Paramount Pictures to purchase the full licensing rights to the Friday the 13th franchise.

four films were adapted into novels, with Friday the 13th Part III adapted by two separate authors. When the franchise was sold to New Line Cinema, Cunningham returned as a producer to oversee two additional films, as well as the crossover film with Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series

Friday the 13th is considered one of the most successful media franchises in America—not only for the success of the films, but also because of the extensive merchandising and repeated references to the series in popular culture

The franchise’s popularity has generated a fanbase who have created their own Friday the 13th films


Halloween:UK

- The remake of halloween that I intend on releasing will keep many aspects of the other halloween film however it will also change some.

- It will keep the final girls as women in society are becoming more powerful and independent and have more authority, the majority of the victims will be men to emphasize the change of roles in society.

- I will also change the sound and make it more upbeat to add to the effect of the killings in order to make the audience react more and make it more of a physical reaction.

- I will show less shots from the killers point of view and instead have it from the victims point of view as it creates more of an impact on the audience as they feel more tense and on edge as they don’t now know when ‘they’ are going to be attacked.

- The killer will still be a man as it shows that even though women are more independent men are still the more violent brutal murderers where as women are kind and caring which is how the two are portrayed in society.

- I will add more of a twist to the storyline to confuse the audience and let them become engaged as they could loose interest as they will have generic expectations of the movie therefore I will change those expectations.

- I will keep the look the same as the audience will be able to recognise the killer from the previous sequels.





A Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise:

- A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror franchise that consists of eight slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books. The franchise began with the film series, which was created by Wes Craven, with various other individuals taking over those jobs for each film sequel.

- The franchise is based on the fictional character of Freddy Krueger, introduced in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), who stalks and kills teenagers in their dreams; if Freddy kills the teenager in the dream world then they are ultimately killed in the real world.

- The original film was written and directed by Craven, who returned to co-script the second sequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and to write and direct New Nightmare (1994).

- The original film was released in 1984, and following it a series of sequels was produced by the independent film company New Line Cinema. New Line often attributes the growth of their company to the success of the Nightmare franchise.

- A Nightmare on Elm Street is the third highest grossing franchise

Scary Movie Franchise

- The Scary Movie series is a series of films which mainly specialize in spoofing current, popular horror films

- The two main recurring actors of the series are Anna Faris and Regina Hall, as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, respectively. They are joined by new or recurring actors and characters.

- They were distributed by Dimension Films through two different studios: Miramax Films, as it was originally the studio's genre film label during executive producers Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein's run and produced the first three films, and The Weinstein Company, the brothers' newly formed studio, which currently produces the rest of the series' release after departing from Miramax and taking the Dimension Films label with them.

- Scary Movie 2 (July 6, 2001) is the second in franchise. In the U.S., the film grossed $71,308,997. Worldwide, it grossed $141,220,678. Although being a hit, out of the four Scary Movie films, this is the least successful to dat.

- Scary Movie 3 (October 24, 2003) is the third film in the series. With $220,673,217 worldwide, it is second most successful/popular film in the series. The plot of the film is a spoof combination of The Ring and Signs with other film/celebrity spoofs thrown in.