Very disappointing...

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

***SPOILERS*** Incredibly bad and totally bloodless, despite a person getting decapitated, slasher film that has a group of people stuck in this Texas ghost town being hunted down and murdered by an unknown and faceless psycho killer. It's only when this guy Sailor Charlie, Woody Strode, rode into town with his dog Brutus that we got some kind of clue in what was going on and who was the person doing all the killing. Up until then some half dozen people were murdered with the survivors having no idea who the killer is but why he has it in for them.It seems that the killer was once the Old Salt's, Charlie the Sailor, captain who went crazy after sailing the Cape of Good Horn for the 35th, a world record, time that finally freaked him out and turned him violent. After Sailor Charlie explained to the huddled survivors what exactly was gong on he and his dog Brutus disappeared from sight only to reappear in the end to put an end to the killer's madness. Why Charlie waited that long where the killer added some two more victims to his body count can only be explained in lengthening the movie to over 80 minutes so it can qualify as a feature film.Very uninteresting and one dimensional characters including Charlie the Sailor makes "Scream" one of the most boring and deadest, in putting its audience to sleep, of the many slasher movies that came out back in the 1970's & 1980's. So dead that if you were staring in it getting killed would be the only reason, forget about the money, to take the part so you wouldn't have to suffer through the entire movie.P.S It's reported in the IMDb that "Scream" made a whopping $1,023,000.00 in ticket sales after it's release on New Years Day 1981. I'd be surprised if it even cost as much as $10,000.00 to produce! And most of that going to actor and former San Francisco 49er running back Woody Strode who was in it for less then five minutes!

The best and only real good thing about Scream is the creepy ghost town setting. Even with a very familiar concept, Scream could have been promising but was spoiled by terrible execution to the extent that important components were almost non-existent. The movie is very badly made from a visual standpoint, you can't enjoy the setting properly because the photography ranges between haphazard and indulgent the entire time and the movie is far too darkly lit that you cannot see what is going on properly or work out who's who and who's been killed. The music had its atmospheric moments, but that is a big emphasis on moments, much of it is pretty much one speed and mood which is ponderous and over-bearingly monotonous, doing nothing to enhance what's happening. The dialogue makes next to no sense and sounds very random and improvisatory, almost like an incomplete rough draft, while the execution of the story is most likely the worst thing about Scream, it starts bizarrely in an opening sequence so strange and almost irrelevant it makes the jaw drop. It's also completely predictable and moves at just one pace which is excruciatingly dull, it doesn't explain anything(the ending can't even be called an ending for reasons that have been covered in previous reviews who explain the movie's problems very well), there's no suspense, scares or fun whatsoever, and for a slasher the deaths and the gore are incredibly tame in a way that it doesn't feel like a horror in any way. The characters are underdeveloped ciphers and some of them, especially Lou, are irritating too(the most rootable is actually the unseen and never revealed killer), while the direction is barely competent and the acting is atrocious, the annoying Joe Allaine being the biggest offender, making the most bored-looking zombies imaginable seem more animated. Woody Strode is the least bad and has a decent introduction but that's not saying a lot, his character is far too weakly written for him to count as a saving grace. In conclusion, a real clunker, whether it's the worst slasher is debatable but it's down there. Not to be confused with the 1996 film of the same name which actually is a great film. 2/10 and that is only for the setting. Bethany Cox

This movie was AWFUL! The summary on the back of the cover was much more entertaining reading than watching the movie itself. This movie is about a bunch of rafters that end up stranded in an old "ghost town" that looks to me like more of a set of a cheap western than a haunted ghost town. One by one the lame characters are killed off by an unseen killer. The only characters other than the helpless rafters are two bikers and an old man riding on his horse with his dog that claims to have been a sailer from the year 1890 something. This movie is just plain awful and I do not recommend that anyone should rent this movie. It has lame killings, low gore and stupid pathetic acting and on top of all that a horrible ending!

I am sorry but I have seen tons and I mean tons of bad movies before. You name it and I have probably seen it but this movie was pain old terrible. There are so many characters and they look actually the same you cant tell who is who and there is little diagolue I doubt they even had a scirpt. There is no plot. People are stuck on an island as people die. I love 80's slasher movies but I can't get over how bad this movie was. They really don't give any information on the killer and they don't really show any death scenes. I have watched this film 3 times because I could not get the point. I tryed to understand it but I just couldn't. I recommend you try to get this film so you know what I am talking about. After you see this movie email me and tell me what you think. Ifyou can sit through this whole movie strait without falling asleep I have tons of respect for you. 0* out of ****