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Dom Robinson reviews

Scream

Distributed by
Pioneer LDCE

Scream has been critically-acclaimed as the definitive horror thriller of the 1990's from master of the genre Wes Craven.

The residents of a picturesque small town are being victimised by a sly psycho with a twisted love for scary movies, who originally struck exactly a year ago when he killed Sydney's mother. As this masked predator continues to mimic horror films with real-life acts of terror, it becomes clear that solving this mystery is going to be murder!

Wes Craven's clever horror tale has quite a cast involved, beginning with Drew Barrymore who is first on the list for termination so doesn't get a great deal of screen time, but the babe quotient doesn't end there as the film's main heroine is Neve Campbell from TV's Party of Five, closely followed by Friends star Courteney Cox as a hot-shot TV reporter on the verge of breaking the biggest story in her career.

David Arquette takes the male adult lead as the local deputy, while the teenagers caught up in the murders are Skeet Ulrich as Sydney's boyfriend, plus Jamie Kennedy, Kevin Patrick Walls and Liev Schreiber.

Finally, there are notable, uncredited cameos by Linda Blair, most notable as The Exorcist's Regan, Wes Craven himself as the janitor, plus Henry Winkler as school principal Himbry. Heyyyyy!

The picture quality is superb, bringing out flesh-tones and gore in equal measures. The disc is made all the better for being presented in widescreen 2.35:1 as shown in the cinema.

It's interesting to note that the widescreen process has some strange effects used at times, sometimes to make a face appear slightly stretched across the screen (see Drew Barrymore in first scene; and a close-up of Courtney Cox later on), while other scenes leave the middle of the picture normal, but squeeze the sides of the picture, resulting in more picture info being enclosed within the 2.35:1 ratio (see scene of Henry Winkler making his last entrance into his classroom; and all the kids sat in the lounge watching TV at the party).

While the film was shown in cinemas in Dolby Digital 5.1, the Dolby Surround soundmix on this disc is also very effective. As you'd expect in a horror film, there are shocks at every turn, jumping out at you crisp and clear.

The version of the film on this disc is the 'R'-rated version as shown in the UK and USA cinemas, although a director's cut has been released on NTSC Laserdisc which includes a commentary track by Wes Craven, plus twenty seconds of restored footage, namely :

  • 1. In the prologue, two seconds are cut of Drew's Boyfriend's entrails spilling out onto the floor (replaced with a previous face-shot of him looking anxious), plus less lingering on Drew's entrails, done by doubling the speed of the zoom.
  • 2. In the film, there are cuts for Rose going crunch in the garage dog flap.
  • 3. There is less lingering on the cameraman with slashed throat (a second or two cut - pun not intended!)
  • 4. Less on-screen mutual mutilation by the killers (3 scenes).

    Alas, there are no extras on this disc.

    Overall, completists will go for the NTSC director's cut which is this disc's main competition, but, lack of extras aside, this is definitely a worthy release in terms of picture and sound quality. 

    FILM	 		: ****
PICTURE QUALITY		: *****
SOUND QUALITY		: *****
EXTRAS			: 0
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OVERALL			: ***

    Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1998.

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