10 Classic Horror Films That Aren't Scary Any More

7. Scream

After years of third-rate films, horror fans welcomed the arrival of a movie that wasn€™t stupid, cheap or Maniac Cop III: Badge Of Silence, and Scream went on to become one of the highest grossing slashers of all time, grossing $173 million worldwide. The film references Psycho and Halloween, but unlike those pictures, it€™s not interested in portraying the world of horror that lurks just outside normality. Scream€™s killer isn€™t a faceless assassin whose sudden appearance sends a jolt through the audience, but a pair of hyperactive teenagers who want to test their victims trivia knowledge before killing them. For all its attempts to be smart and edgy, the film is really a Scooby Doo episode writ large, complete with a climactic unmasking and a Talking Villain. The situation isn€™t helped when one of the killers is revealed to be Matthew Lillard, who later played Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movie and voiced the character in Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated. In fact, an actor from every Scream film has voiced a character in the show, including Patrick Warburton, who played Steven Stone in Scream 3. His character in Mystery Incorporated, by the way, is named Sheriff Bronson Stone.