Apologies for the lack of update yesterday. As you might have noticed over the past few weeks, I’ve kinda quietly adopted a daily-posting schedule that I’ve had no problem maintaining, and my only reason for not posting yesterday is, well, I forgot. But in general you can expect an update a day, until I get tired of it, at which point they’ll cease without notice because I hate these meta-blogging posts as much as you probably do!
But anyways, Matt at Black Lagoon reviews Scream, the film that, whether we like it or not, revived horror as a viable genre. (Of course, things stalled out at a certain point until The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project opened up some other avenues of exploration in ’99, but yeah, Scream started it.) It’s not necessarily a film I’m interested in revisiting, but I remember finding it scary at the time, and at any rate it’s probably as unfair to blame Scream for its shitty imitators as it is to blame Star Wars for Independence Day or Seinfeld for Caroline in the City, so Matt’s considered praise is worth your time.