All-time horror classics like Psycho and Halloween are among the four best and most important slasher movies ever made.

After the slasher boom of the 1980s, horror was in dire straits for much of the early 1990s. That all changed when Wes Craven ...

In that context, the genius of Kevin Williamson’s screenplay for Scream is how it exposed the mechanics for an audience that already knew them by heart, while still making them work. The opening scene ...