{"id":7333,"date":"2012-05-07T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2014-05-02T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T23:00:13","slug":"scream-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7333","title":{"rendered":"Scream 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tag5seconds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6687\" title=\"tag5seconds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tag5seconds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tag5seconds.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tag5seconds-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7334\" title=\"scream4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream4.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scream4-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Considering the original <em>Scream<\/em> single-handedly revived the horror genre in Hollywood fifteen years ago, its somewhat ironic and perhaps fitting that the franchise has now mimmicked the sequel fatigue of the cult classic films it took influence from.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scream 4<\/em> is a really unremarkable horror film.\u00a0 There is <em>nothing<\/em> special about it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s predecessors and dozens of contemporary horror films have been more creative, more interesting and more pointed in delivering any form of social commentary.\u00a0 Given that the original film was a razor sharp satire of Eighties horror, its kind of depressing that this version is just a paint-by-the-numbers example of a lazy sequel.<\/p>\n<p>The film appears to be made by people who have seen many horror films but don&#8217;t understand what made the best ones so good.\u00a0 It has a real workmanlike pace, with a death every ten minutes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so predictable that it lacks any tension whatsoever.\u00a0 It&#8217;s most unforgivable crime is that its boring.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a looong two hours.\u00a0 <em>Scream 3<\/em> was pretty bad and <em>Scream 4<\/em> just kills the franchise dead.\u00a0 So I expect at least two more sequels, maybe straight to DVD ones, before anyone has the sense to leave this once great franchise alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the original Scream single-handedly revived the horror genre in Hollywood fifteen years ago, its somewhat ironic and perhaps fitting that the franchise has now mimmicked the sequel fatigue of the cult classic films it took influence from. Scream 4 is a really unremarkable horror film.\u00a0 There is nothing special about it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s predecessors and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[296,1268],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-films","tag-5-second-reviews","tag-scream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14275,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/14275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}