Think on this: 25 years before the release of Wes Craven’s original Scream in 1996, almost none of the scary movies from which it took convention and reference had actually been made yet. The idea of a horror movie about horror movies wasn’t a new one – the director himself had already done it with Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, where Freddy Krueger came off film set and into the real world – but it drew a definitive line between old and new. It put a massive star — Drew Barrymore — front and centre on the poster, then (spoiler alert) offed her as an opening throw. It raised questions about the impact of film violence on the world. It acted as a bloody love letter to scary movies themselves. It tore up the rulebook by knowing exactly where to rip. A quarter ...