{"id":5837,"date":"2013-04-26T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:16:08","slug":"once-revolutionary-scream-now-feels-quaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/once-revolutionary-scream-now-feels-quaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Once revolutionary, Scream now feels quaint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s easy to forget how revolutionary Wes Craven’s Scream<\/em> seemed in 1996, and how influential it\u2019s been since. Rewatching it 17 years later, I’m struck by how\u2026 well,\u00a0quaint<\/em>\u00a0it seems in retrospect. Now every post-Scream<\/em> horror movie is required to be a postmodern deconstruction of the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the trend reached its apotheosis with The Cabin in the Woods<\/em>. But who knows, maybe in 17 more years another post-postmodern de-deconstruction will obsolete it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to forget how revolutionary Wes Craven’s Scream seemed in 1996, and how influential it\u2019s been since. Rewatching it 17 years later, I’m struck by how\u2026 well,\u00a0quaint\u00a0it seems in retrospect. Now every post-Scream horror movie is required to be a postmodern deconstruction of the genre. 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