**This is part of my 2022 HORROR Fridays**

I first saw Scream in theatres back in 1996. The usual affair for horror movies at the time was that I usually ended up liking them, and whatever girl I brought usually hated them. With Scream it was different. I fell totally in love with it, and even my girlfriend at the time enjoyed it.

Since then, I have seen it a few times more in the cinema, and loads of times on DVD and Blu-ray. Not much lately, though, but that might just be because of my lovely better half being deathly afraid of Ghostface, and, out of respect, I never take it out whenever she is around.

Well, I took it out today, and Scream is still a good movie, but it has lost some of its "allure". What Wes Craven did with Scream back in '96 was certainly revolutionizing, but as time went by, more and more horror creators imitated it, and of course we got the sequels, and well...maybe it got to be a bit much there for a while.

Now, don't get me wrong. I still love this movie, and I still recommend it to anyone that wants to get started with the horror genre. We still get a Courtney Cox that is as far away from Friends as you can possibly come. We still get a Neve Campbell before she became a "wild thing". And of course...a totally crazy Shaggy.

Scream is well worth the time investment. Especially if you haven't seen it in a while, or, god forbid, not at all.