Baby Sitter, Beware: That Top Step Is a Lulu
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
Once upon a time in horror cinema, the victim — often female and preferably wearing a backlighted diaphanous gown — would inch up the creaking stairs toward the inevitable. In 1996 “Scream” helped upend the genre with savvy characters who, because they’re as thoroughly steeped in horror-movie clichés as the audience, don’t fall for the usual traps, or at least not with the customary naïveté. There’s a formula to it, one character explains, a very simple formula. Yet while they know the rules for surviving a horror movie (no sex, for starters), this awareness can’t save them. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4388 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 29 Ottobre 2009
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