Scream 1 & 2 – 35mm

Visninger er gratis mot fremvisning av gyldig NFK-medlemskap. 

The screening is free of charge, but a valid NFK membership is compulsory.

Do you like scary movies?

Few directors have had a bigger influence on American horror cinema than Wes Craven. After a brief yet successful career as a pornography director, Craven directed the 1972 Rape-Revenge film Last House on the Left whose controversial success led him down a path directing bigger and better horror pictures, most famously the Hills Have Eyes and A Nightmare on Elm Street. 

As the 80s waned off, audiences seemed to grow tired of the stale old format of american horror pictures, with a masked slasher terrorising sex-proned teenagers in small-town USA. Having already made a bigger mark than most of his contemporaries, Craven could easily have rested on his laurels, already semented as a Horror-icon. Instead however, Craven saw the audiences disinterest as an opportunity to make something new; a hyper self-aware slasher, using all the well-known tropes of its own genre to subvert itself. What resulted in Scream is perhaps the zenith of what a slasher film can be; a genre piece turned into a meta commentary of itself, using the audiences awareness and anticipation of the genre against themselves.

The success of Scream made it into an ongoing franchise, which is still going strong to this day, with a seventh film currently in the works. As always happens with genre-franchises, the quality of these sequels drastically decline as the series go on, but before the series was completely neutered in the third film, the immediate sequel to Scream 2 managed to deliver a fitting and thrilling meta-continuation of the original, and we at Cinema Neuf hope you’ll join us on Halloween to watch the two Scream films in their original glory, on 35mm film.

Wes Craven

USA

1996 / 1997

35mm

111 min + 120 min

English dialogue, Norwegian subtitles