10 Most Underrated High School Horror Movies

3. Scream 4 (2011)

In 2011, Scream 4 did the unthinkable and went meta inside an already doubly-meta universe (That's like... 16 metas!), ushering in a new era of Scream that could step out on its own while staying true to Wes Craven's original vision. Unfortunately not everyone saw it this way, judging its eager embrace of slasher clichés – a tool it used to subvert audience expectations – as the easy way out rather than a new super-subversion.

Many years since Ghostface was unmasked, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) returns to Woodsboro, and evil rears its ugly white face once more. But neither are prepared for a new generation of youngsters raised on the Stab movies, who are in awe of violence and the notoriety that follows it. Twisting some of the core concepts and subverting expectations, Scream 4 has Sidney's cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) become the killer, embracing the zeitgeist by showing the lengths teens will go to in order to secure internet fame.

While not as reviled as Scream 3 (2000), which suffered from a knot of writerly devices that desperately tried to link the first three films into a trilogy, Scream 4 is still the second worst rated entry in the series. But it allowed the whole affair to continue, and it's about time we gave it another chance.