How is Scream postmodern?
The way Scream is a postmodern film is because it understands the audiences idea of what are the typical conventions of a horror film and use this knowledge to make as almost 'funny' slasher film. They play on ideas such as the "big breasted" blonde one is always killed off first, people always run into the house when the logical thing to do would be to run away, or running up the stairs where they are most likely to get killed. These conventions happen throughout the film and both the killer and victims are aware of the too. The characters in the film joke about how horror films they have seen before and let the audience know that they are also aware- just like those watching. There is also a scene where they point out that the killings happening are just like from a film and say what they should and shouldn't do because they've seen it in a film previously. They discuss rules that they should follow to survive if they are in a scary movie. The killer tries to reenact other horror films killing characters off one by one. The trailer describes the killer as "Someones who's seen one too many scary movies. Now, he's taking his love of fear, one step too far" so this also adds to the film and characters being influenced by other horror films. All of these aspects of the film help to create this film to be postmodern.
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