Episode Report Card Aaron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT American Pie
By Aaron | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2001
DVD Commentary Note: It's at this point in the film (read: less than five minutes in) that Williamson utters the straw that breaks the camel's back, pretentiousness-wise. So far, we've learned that Scream is "special" because it "breaks all the rules" of your typical horror movies. Now he seems to feel that killing a star of Drew "Poison Ivy" Barrymore's magnitude in the first five minutes is a revolutionary development in cinematic history, and not (as we all know it to be) a huge fucking cliché. And as long as we're discussing cinematic history, how about we give (or possibly get) it up for the Poison Ivy films -- the only soft-core porn franchise that can boast not one, but THREE highly successful leading ladies: Barrymore, Alyssa "Charmed out of her dress" Milano, and Jaime "Neither Jack nor Jill (but looks like a Jack)" Pressley. I'm surprised (and somewhat gratified) that no one's asked for recaps on those yet. Although I'd definitely be interested. Back at the ranch, or ranch-style farmhouse in this case, Drew's parents have arrived. They race inside to look for their daughter, who is of course standing just outside their dangerously limited peripheral vision. Also, a stab wound to the left shoulder can apparently render you somehow incapable of speech, since Drew can't manage much more than a gurgle. Munch grabs her, and she collapses to the ground, where he delivers the death blow. Inside, Mom picks up the phone and listens to poor Drew's final breath. Good thing she didn't drop the cordless while being BRUTALLY MURDERED. Mom makes another in-joke reference to Halloween and then rushes outside, only to discover Drew's body hanging from a tree. Okay, first of all, that one's straight out of Silence of the Lambs. Or possibly Children of the Corn, considering how lowball the rest of his references are. Secondly, there were like five seconds between when Munch stabbed her and when the Mom walked outside, and we're supposed to believe that he not only had time to kill her, but also managed to suspend her body (Lecter-style) with some kind of highly complex block-and-tackle system? Whatever. Anyway, wave bye-bye to Drew, who's among the few actors in this film to move on to brighter pastures. Or has she? Smash cut to Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, which I believe may represent one of Williamson's few original character names, although I'm betting Sars burns me on that one. ["The name itself isn't repeated anywhere else, but it's pretty typical of Williamson to give female characters 'boy' names." -- Sars] Sidney's dressed for bed and seated at her computer, typing away (Doogie-style) on what appears to be a journal. As she nods, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at her bedroom window (tm Poe -- hey, if Kev gets to steal, so do I).Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Next