‘Scream’ movie review: 2022 version is a fun exercise in horror
The Hindu
While not overtly scary or gory, the movie trips along smoothly on its meta wheels
Woodsboro and Ghostface are back in action. Starting like the movie that started it all, 1996’s Scream, with a girl alone at home, and a slasher-film-obsessed killer on the phone, the movie trips along smoothly on its meta wheels.
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A character talks of the need for the return of legacy characters in “re-quels”, naming Jurassic Park, The Terminator, Halloween, Ghostbusters and Star Wars. Didn’t we cheer Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor’s (Linda Hamilton) return in Terminator: Dark Fate or Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in Halloween (2018)? So too will we cheer the return of Sidney (Neve Campbell), Gale (Courteney Cox) and Dewey (David Arquette). And do not try too hard to stifle the Scary Movie giggles.
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Since its invention, the Rubik’s Cube has turned up regularly in blockbuster movies and TV shows. As you might imagine, a wildly popular 3D puzzle is an easily identifiable metaphor — for life-challenges, dilemmas of the heart, the frenetic feeling that life is passing you by and you need to ‘solve’ the attitudes that are holding you back.