The Reel Rejects - SCREAM (1996) IS META HORROR MAGIC!! MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:00:27 Thank you to Acorns for sponsoring this video. on them in just a bit. Shall we watch this? We shall. All right. When Tara counts us in, that's when we're going to watch, and she's going to... Three, two, one. There we go.

Starting point is 00:00:43 I click. Citizens of Reject Nation, we just watched Scream. The first of the franchise, baby. Yeah, man. Good stuff. Yeah, it was good stuff. well before we get into Patreon questions because we will

Starting point is 00:01:01 and we got several so I want to make sure we're spending a good amount of time there but just give me Tara your brief thoughts after I say thank you to Prepper shout to Prepper thank you guys so much for helping edits down we know horror Thursdays are difficult for you guys because there's so much stuff that you cannot show you guys do an amazing job

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Starting point is 00:01:35 that is the place to go. Behind the scenes. It is shining over there right now. Yep. All right, Tara, hit me with your overall thoughts on the first screen movie. Love this movie, really well written. I would think it's very, very tough

Starting point is 00:01:51 to make like a dramatic, not like, it's not like it's super dramatic, but a dramatic horror that actually keeps you on your toes. keeps you guessing written in a smart way but there's also times when it's funny but you're not like oh that's I'm laughing at a really bad time

Starting point is 00:02:07 you're like oh that's legitimately funny and it's also really good so I think it's great I similar to what I did with Halloween it's really interesting to have seen the most recent movies because going back now and I won't give you any spoilers

Starting point is 00:02:24 but it's making those movies so much better like because I have seen the most recent two scream movies and I didn't understand some of the things why some of the stuff was so revered. Oh, okay. And this made me get, oh, I see why people love this or this or I get where that character's growth has come from

Starting point is 00:02:46 and whatnot. So yeah, it was like an extra layer of cool for me. I really love that this movie does, pays such homage to all of the other horror movies, but that makes it its own. And I'm sure we'll get more questions about that, but those are my brief thoughts. Shall we jump right into the patrons?

Starting point is 00:03:06 One of the cool perks of being a patron. You get to ask us questions, and we answer them afterwards. So let's hit it. Malik says, hi, hi, Chejex. Hi, Malik. I hope you're both doing well. I'm so excited for you to both go on your scream journey

Starting point is 00:03:18 of all the final girls so far. Where do you rank Sydney, at least for right now? It's so unfair, Malik, for you to ask us to do this. that's her first one because I don't know what her journey in this franchise is but I guess just from jump Tara we kind of talked about this with other franchises

Starting point is 00:03:34 like really the only other final girl of a franchise is Lori exactly is Jamie Curtis because Nancy's the final girl too but she's like not in a vast majority except then she is but she's recast and whatever so I feel like so far

Starting point is 00:03:50 my favorite final girl would be Lori yeah but Sydney was great She's up there, you know, depending upon the journey there. Like who, otherwise it's just been like one-off final girls. The girl from Happy Death Day is a great final girl as well. She is too, yeah. She's awesome. And I was like, there wasn't anybody in smile.

Starting point is 00:04:07 No, because they all, they all died, they all die. Wrong turn. You want to talk about that? Wrong turn, no, I don't. You're going to compare this to wrong term bit? Nope, no. All right, then we're going to keep moving. Jay says, hi, Tara and Roxy.

Starting point is 00:04:19 Hi, Jay. You're Grenadian. Grenadian. Reject here. You're from Grenada. That's cool. My ex-boyfriend lived there for a while. And super-hyped. I just went silent. I was like, I don't know this word, so I'm going to just pause until it comes to me. And super hyped, y'all are watching my favorite horror franchise. The Conjuring is a close second. Do you think, oh, would she be a final girl? Not really. Maybe a little. I mean, there is. She's in. Yeah, yeah, okay. Do you think the original screen works so well because it's self-awful.

Starting point is 00:04:54 without mocking horror or because it actually reignited what horror fans love most about slasher's tension mystery and rules that bite back my answer is both yeah right you didn't say two opposing things you said two things that are true that are great because it is very self-aware that was like what what i was trying to say of like it it is such a thriller slash horror and then you when you're when you laugh you're like oh but this is like a really good moment like it's not added into a moment where you're like that was corny as hell. Yep. So both. It's good stuff.

Starting point is 00:05:29 Resident Z. A new Chejax adventure. Hell yeah. I thought that, I love the thought of rules of a scary movie. My question is, what are some of your rules that you look out for when trying to figure out who the killer is in a scary movie? P.S. I can't wait to see Roxy's movie with Kate Beck and Sale. That is so awesome. Gratz. Thank you so much. Just a quick chance to plug myself.

Starting point is 00:05:48 November 25th, Wildcat. It's coming to theaters. My movie is coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. November this month, November 25th, Wildcat, in theaters and on VOD, and I am in it. Love that. And it is starring Kate Beckinsale. And I'm stoked on that. So, Resonance, thanks for making me not pluck myself without you saying it.

Starting point is 00:06:06 It makes it way cooler. Going to the actual question, rules that you look out for trying to figure out who the killer is. Well, shoes, that's one thing that you like to clock. They did a good job with the close-up of the shoes. Backstory. Like, we should have known when Skeets' character was like, my mom. left my dad when my mom left my dad

Starting point is 00:06:27 you know what I'm talking about yes exactly you know like those little hints those are always things that usually we pick up on but there we were so annoyed with him we didn't we didn't at all but yeah they usually say a line that's like mm-hmm yeah but it's different because we haven't been on the

Starting point is 00:06:42 all the rules are different the guest the killer game has not been when we're at because for Halloween for Friday the 13th and for and for Swamp Boy guess the killers. Right.

Starting point is 00:06:56 Except for the first Friday of... Except for maybe the first ones. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, Swamp Boy is Friday. I meant Nightmare on Elm Street. You meant nightmare. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:05 So, you know, like, we haven't done like a good guess the killer in a while. This was the best guest the killer. Yes, for sure. Like, hands down. I loved it. Keep it pushing? Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:17 Jamie Gore. What's your favorite quote line in the movie? 24? I was 24 for a whole year. A super for a whole year fucking sent us. See, it was so good. This movie has loads of them I'll always love.

Starting point is 00:07:29 I'm feeling a little woozy here by Stu because of delivery. Love y'all's reactions. Yeah, mine's definitely the 24 one. I don't know why I thought that was so fucking funny. So good. What's yours? It was a great callback too.

Starting point is 00:07:44 Ooh. I don't know. I'd have to really think about it. Okay. My favorite quote line. Let me think about it. Let us know next week. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:54 I will. When we do the next screen movie, what your favorite line was. Okay. Noel Beltran, this is probably my favorite movie series to rewatch every year. Wow, that's cool. How many movies are there? What rules would you add to the list in order to survive a horror movie? Grab a weapon, clap your hands.

Starting point is 00:08:09 Yeah, done. I mean, that's what it is. And I can admit when I am in second place, first try to grab a weapon. That's always first. You don't try to clap your hands first. No, no, no. If you cannot, you clap your hands. Totally.

Starting point is 00:08:26 You do not want to be seen. The killer runs into the room and you're like. No, no. And then everyone's going, no, cut. You grab a weapon first. That comes second. Exactly. And we've been telling you that from day one.

Starting point is 00:08:39 Thank you. No excuses. Exactly. James Henry the second. So happy this franchise is next. This might be my favorite movies of all time and can quote so much. That's a great question. Of all the franchises you've seen, where does this land on your

Starting point is 00:08:52 debut franchise ranking, Nightmare, Childs Play, Friday, 13th, et cetera. Also, did you catch the West Craven cameo as Freddie? Oh, he's the janitor. No, I didn't even clock. That was him. That's great. Can't wait to discuss the franchise with y'all. Okay.

Starting point is 00:09:09 Tara, I'm going to make you answer this first. Sorry. Sucks to suck. Now, child's play always going to be up there. Number one, never not number one. It's going to be up there. Right now, with how well this first movie really got me, and I really love the writing.

Starting point is 00:09:31 Are you about to switch it for child's play? No, no, not for child's play. Okay, but for everything else, for everything else. This would be number two for me right now. That's what I was about to say. Because Nightmare, Friday, 13th, even some Halloween, there's some lacking stuff in the writing and the way that it was directed. Even in those first initial classic films,

Starting point is 00:09:49 which are very, very good, this one was done. done really well. We do take a lot of twists and turns, though, at the end, and I will say, some of them, I was like, okay, I get it, but it was still so, so well done. So, you know what else I loved was the first Purge movie? Oh, that was so good. So good. See, it's, the problem with these questions is that next time, when you guys ask this question, can you literally put multiple choice of everything we've watched? Because I guarantee you, I will forget. Yeah, same and same. But I think this is very, very high up. Yeah. fellow rejects maybe you'll identify with what i'm about to say i've never had the healthiest relationship

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Starting point is 00:12:44 A bit random, but why would Gail's cameraman, Kenny, ever agree to watch the party on a 30 second delay. What possible journalistic benefit did that feature have besides getting him killed? My apologies for the randomness is this question. I don't think he wanted to. I think that that's what happened. And there was without, there was no way to fix it. There was no quick fix for it. So it's better than no, not watching it at all. Exactly. And he was disappointed when he was like, yeah, 30 second delay. And I think mainly they wrote that in not for him as a character, but for us as the audience. So that when he opened the door and he goes, ah, that we call, kind of go 30 second delay with him.

Starting point is 00:13:22 You know what I mean? Yes, I do. Yeah. Oh, handsome ransom. What's up, dude? My personal opinion is that they should have stopped after the first one. Whoa. Is there any justification for a sequel in your minds after seeing this, not just as a franchise,

Starting point is 00:13:35 but as a movie that has a very meta approach to the genre, not saying all the following ones are bad, four is awful damn near parody territory, but just diminishing returns on each one and they make less sense each time around stay awesome and long live the hashtag Stryorverse I love that Yeah handsome ransom rocks You've always been amazing

Starting point is 00:13:56 That's interesting because Tara I had told you during this I've heard people say that this franchise doesn't miss So interesting perspective I don't know And when you see the fourth one I've never seen that

Starting point is 00:14:07 So what do you think Does it justify a sequel? Honestly, I think it does But here I get what you're saying with the horror genre and you're like, this is a tiny world and we're making fun of ourselves in this meta world. But I think in just them introducing the ghost face man that there's a lot to play with there. I understand we caught them both. But that still feeds into there's going to be people out there who want to recreate this psycho cuckoo bananas thing. So I still think that

Starting point is 00:14:44 there's a lot to play with, as long as the writing in the direction is just as good as it was here. And they could fall into a territory where they don't necessarily make fun of themselves and play the same game over and over of like, let's call out the tropes of all the horror movies. We can't do that again and again. We do it a little bit. But it can't. If they switch it up, then I'm cool with it. I do think that I would watch a sequel. It's super justifies a sequel to me because of how meta it is. They even make that joke at the end, like, and we need a sequel. And I feel like they do, especially because we left a lot of characters alive. We, you know, like, Gail is still alive.

Starting point is 00:15:23 Sydney's still alive. Dewey is still alive. The guy that blubbers that we never learned his name, the guy that was outside of the weird voice. It's still alive. The dad is still alive. There's just so many people to still play around with. Absolutely. And we saw people already using these masks.

Starting point is 00:15:41 It's kind of like the Joker. Like people clearly are looking up to the, or whatever. this guy emulating this guy so I definitely think it justifies it yeah I want to take a couple more are you good on time right now just so you guys know we only take the first few usually but we're feeling very generous today so here we go jaden road says I love this movie it's definitely one of my favorite horror movies while also being my favorite slasher movie my question is how do you all feel about the killers did you see them coming and how excited are y'all to dive into a new horror franchise I'm so glad we kept going I love this question yeah so the first part of this how

Starting point is 00:16:14 Did you see them coming? At different points, we saw different people. Different points, we saw different people. The one good thing about this is it keeps you guessing almost at every turn. That's why I said it's really well written, well directed. So, yeah, you could say that, yeah, I did call out of the boyfriend with the second he came in. I was like, why does his voice sound kind of sexy? Like they got on the phone.

Starting point is 00:16:37 But then I didn't know. I was guessing the entire time. And to the second part of this, how excited are you? all to dive into a new horror franchise every time I feel giddy about it yeah there's something about i'm sorry i not to do to our own horn there's something about the she jacks y'all like the the two of us watching horror movies in these studios it's it transcends it does i'm going through a lot today yeah terror's going through a lot always and when i come in for the two hours of this it's like i know it's going to be yeah so i'm stoked really into it.

Starting point is 00:17:14 Yeah. And it kind of rounds out our official like scream queen. And this is the last of the major franchises that we haven't seen all of them. Yeah. Because there's still obviously huge ones coming up. Like Hellraiser, Leprocom, people really want us to do to other franchises. But this is like one of the biggest of all times. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:33 Danny Rivera. Yes. This is one of my favorite horror movies. It's so self-aware and fun. I was even almost named Sydney. That's so cool. How do you think you both would do fighting against Ghostface? would you be the final girl, Tara?

Starting point is 00:17:45 We're both going to be like, yeah, duh, because find a weapon, clap your freaking hands. I do think that Tara and I would make a great duo in a horror movie to be the final girl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like... Wouldn't that be fun? Yeah, oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:18:00 Instead of the cycle pass, it's me and you. And we're freaking, we're getting it done. And letting the people know. I love it. I love it. We're going to take one more. Thank you so much to Stoned Terks. Thank you for being our last question of the day.

Starting point is 00:18:18 She texts first off, disappointed. Randy didn't include clap your hands on his rules of how to survive a horror movie. There you have you. Exactly. Stoned? Yep. He didn't understand. He thought that you had to be a virgin.

Starting point is 00:18:28 Exactly. And we know Sidney Prescott, not a virgin, still survived. It's more important to clap your hands than to keep your virginity. Put that on a Post-it. Bingo, baby. On a post-it? Why, Roxy? Secondly, how would you all rank Billy Stew ghostface compared to the other?

Starting point is 00:18:43 Horror Killers, Michael, Freddie, Swamp Boy, and Chuckie. See, these extra questions are good ones. That's a toughie. That's a toughie. I mean, I like ghost face. I do. I like the voice. I like how he would go from sexy voice to like, I'm going to gut you.

Starting point is 00:19:00 And you're like, what? In the actual F, you are cuckoo bananas person. He had a personality. He did. Because these other, like, Michael doesn't speak. Nope. And he's slow as shit. And he's just, so it's hard to.

Starting point is 00:19:13 He's intimidating, but, and same thing with Swamp Boy, which I love that you call them. Yeah. Thank you for using that. Freddie is twisted. We love Freddy. Freddie is twisted. Chuckie's obviously our number one, everything always. So I think that it's cooler when somebody's got a personality and he was like talking about other things and there's two of them.

Starting point is 00:19:35 I agree. Because it's like the out of the strongest, it's like it's Chuckie, Freddie and Ghostface have the personalities. They do. Right? they do so i don't know that's tough for to to rank it but like there's still some some crazy ass stuff in the jucky series of like having a gay uh or they them child and like that's cuckoo dude yeah like you know funny stuff like that and everything is jennifer tillie yeah i mean just wild wild wild wild but i really i love i love ghost face i'm loving this

Starting point is 00:20:10 Wait, I lied because one more because, Tara, we didn't realize this or talk about this. Hesena Ali said, which O.G. West Craven film is better scream or a nightmare on Elm Street. West Craven is the king of horror. And I do feel like we should kind of talk about the fact. Right. Comparing those two. Man, oh man. I think that those are, if I directed scream and a nightmare on Elm Street, my shit doesn't stink.

Starting point is 00:20:36 You can't tell me nothing in the streets. I was, I'd be like, do you know who I am? Because I'm West, mother effing, Craven. They just, the C's part, the people part, and they're like, here you go. Whatever you want. This is why everybody bows down to West Craven because, like, you did scream at a nightmare at Elm Street. I mean, that's classic. Dude, the ceiling shot, the face out of the wall.

Starting point is 00:21:03 I understand I'm not answering the question, but both. I mean, yeah. It's, I can't tell you which one is better because, and here's the thing, I'm obviously basing it off the first nightmare, just epic. Epic. Epic. Epic. Beyond epic. And this one so different because it has the, I mean, more of that meta comedic self-aware kind of type in this movie, which I just also, though, is mixed and perfectly timed while also being a real like thriller horror where I'm like

Starting point is 00:21:43 what? Who is it? Imagine doing it nightmare on Elm Street and then being like I'm actually going to start an entire new franchise. Right? And also it's like how many years later? You know? That's insane. A long time later. Yeah, that's insane. Damn. In West we trust. All right, let's get out of here, Tara. We will be back for what I presume is Scream 2?

Starting point is 00:22:06 Yeah, I think so. I don't know if it has a weird name. Scream 2. We'll see you guys. I'm guessing on Horror Thursday next week for Scream 2. Anything else you got to tell the people? Nah, just listen to the RagePod. I love you guys.

Starting point is 00:22:20 Later, she-jacks, later Rejects.

The Reel Rejects - SCREAM (1996) IS META HORROR MAGIC!! MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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