jupitersterrain four

"Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson let us believe that [the killer] might be anybody (though, according to the rules of horror movies, obviously it isn't the person you think it might be). But you don't watch 'Scream 4' to solve a mystery, or to identify with believable characters or situations (just one example: there's a scene set in a hospital that apparently has no medical personnel)


snarky geek 

 moved on after outwitting every previous Ghostface who ever lunged her way

 just as it seems that the climax has arrived in a big Stab-A-Thon night at which dozens of horror geeks have congregated to watch the series while Ghostface is on a new tear through town, the film downshifts as it prepares to string out the last series of murders as long as it can before the final revelations (not bad) about who's behind the mask this time and why


1.15am 15.12.12. 

ironic glory twisty plot


set the teasing toneThe creep's pattern remains more or less the same: Taunting verbal abuse over the phone,  The generational mix of actors works well enough, although Campbell too often seems stranded with little to do until the climax

taunting, black-hooded, anguished-faced freak,Out of Darkness, which purports to express her coming to terms with the dreadful ordeals she survived and are now presumably safely in the past. With the town square festooned with the ghoul's likeness hanging from every lamppost




self deconstruction self-referential film buff gags accompanied by a clockwork killing spree that seriously reduces the population of a small town

slasher films the knife rings like an anvil 


taking the day off to raise the dead



19.52, 14.12.12.

get the graveyard dirt on the devil’s chamber

giant, ominous horror techno beats featuring pulsing and pounding subsonic bass with sweeping synth-chords and samples weaving between snares, high hats and other percussion

dark, uncomfortable, and foreboding sounds