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Red Eye Rundown
Just answering your phone can get you killed!
Why not try When a Stranger Calls.
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Reviewed by Julia Smith Drew Barrymore (Charlie's Angels) kicks starts this movie as teenager Casey Becker being plagued by constant phone calls whilst preparing to watch a movie. Barrymore provides us with fantastically spine chilling entertainment in this opening scene. She shows her character experiencing a ride of emotions from harmless flirtation with the caller to absolute terror.
Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell, Wild Things) is the main character that links the trilogy together surrounding the death of her mother. Sydney’s naivety is evident in this first Scream movie as she is still raw from losing her mother so suddenly. Neve turns her character around when the mysterious caller focuses on Sydney by becoming fearless and challenging. Neve gives a solid performance throughout this movie as various characters are introduced around her.
There is also comedy thrown in for good measure in this slick horror flick which David Arquette (Beautiful Girls) naturally brings to this movie as Officer Dewey Riley. Courteney Cox (Friends) plays alongside David as determined Television Reporter Gayle Weathers who is out for a killer story. In typical film fashion the hardnosed career women Gayle takes a shine to the quirky, young Officer Dewey. They prove their relationship works well together on screen and off!
The other characters that make this movie happen include Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich, The Craft) who plays Sydney's patient boyfriend, Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard, Hackers) as his out there friend, Dewey’s sister Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan, Bio-Dome) and last but not least loveable Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy, Romeo & Juliet).
This movie is backed up by a morbidly great soundtrack with chilling tunes which add to the eerie, remote scenes.
The constant ironic mention of horror films and characters and the play on director's names by the characters is amusing and a clever tie into this movie.
Director Wes Craven certainly struck gold with this fantastic start to the Scream trilogy, so much that he is in the movie somewhere!
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Directed by: Wes Craven
Written by: Kevin Williamson Starring: Drew Barrymore, Kevin Patrick Walls, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Lawrence Hecht, Courteney Cox, W.Earl Brown, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, David Arquette Genre Information Genre: Horror Production Information Produced in: USA
Language: English Release Information Released: 1996
UK cinema: // UK DVD: 16/02/2001 |
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