1. Scream
Scream might very well be the most brilliant and unique horror movie of all time, and it's certainly Craven's best work. At a time when slasher films were becoming a dead genre, recycling the same crap over and over, Craven came along and both mocked and celebrated everything about the genre he helped popularize. It's among the first instances in film of characters being highly aware of horror movie tropes; in most of these films, the leads have clearly never even seen a horror film. Scream brilliantly mixes humor with horror in a way that so many later directors would try and fail to emulate. It's laugh out loud funny, but Craven knows when to bring the scares too, and Ghostface is a downright terrifying killer. We're never any less afraid of him just because the rest of the movie has a sort of tongue and cheek style to it. Craven is able to both make fun of the slasher genre while also becoming one of the best slashers out there, creating another major horror icon in Ghostface and bringing the world one of the great horror heroines, Sidney Prescott. It's simply one of the all time best American horror films, and it's the movie that Craven will be remembered for for decades to come.
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