Michael_Elliott Scream (1981) * 1/2 (out of 4) A group of people pay $100 each to take a raft down a river and spend the night at an old ghost town that was used during the gold rush. Pretty soon each of them is getting picked off so is the murdering someone from the group or an outsider? There are two ways to look at low-budget filmmaking. You can praise it that sometimes the directors manage to make something special and they end up with a cult item on their hands. You can also bash it because the lack of money usually means there are going to be all sorts of problems with the production and the finished film. SCREAM was one of many slashers that were made after they started to make a ton of cash at the box office but sadly it's certainly not among the most memorable.Going back to what I said, the biggest problem with SCREAM is the fact that it's obvious they didn't have enough money to do anything. I say that because all of the death scenes are either off screen or shot in a way that you really don't get to see any good stuff. The special effects are what made slashers so popular so when you're watching one without any good effects it almost seems pointless. Of course, gore wouldn't be needed if scares or some sort of tension was delivered instead but that doesn't happen either.The performances certainly weren't the greatest but at the same time it was a nice group of characters and I thought they were entertaining. It's just too bad that there really wasn't anything around them. The mystery really isn't that interesting and in the end it's easy to see why SCREAM has pretty much been forgotten.

gwnightscream This 1981 horror film begins with of a group of rafters heading up river and into the hills where they rest at a small, abandoned town. Soon, they're stalked by a mysterious figure who kills some of them one at a time. The others assume it's an outsider and try protecting themselves, but eventually discover it's someone or something else. This film had potential for it's bleak atmosphere, but disappoints. I'd say the first few minutes or so starts OK, but goes downhill after and the ending just doesn't make sense. The film is also very dark in many scenes and I probably only recommend a one time viewing if you like slasher/horror flicks, but other than that it's a waste of time.

insomniac_rod First of all, this movie should only be seen by die hard slasher fans. And I mean, those who can stand almost 90 minutes of mediocrity, terrible cinematography, boring plot, and stupid characters. Yes, there is a "mysterious" killer but that isn't enough.The plot deals with a bunch of teen rafters that get lost in a Ghost Town. You don't need to know more because before we can understand what's going on; the characters start to get killed one by one in off-screen scenes! So don't expect a serious slasher flick.The locations weren't that bad, and actually, looked creepy at some points but the horrible cinematography ruins it all.I found a VHS copy of this crap some time ago and I can only say that it serves for historic purposes only. Otherwise, I don't see the point of watching it.

Chainsaw Slasher This movie is just plain boring. You have a group of hikers stop at this ghost town, where there is a slasher. But the picture of the movie is soo dark that you can barely make out anything. Film has horrible lighting. And the deaths weren't all that special. Had a few knifings, but the blood dosage was very small. I'm all up for slashings, but it's meaningless without the lots of blood. I guess it wouldn't matter anyway because the picture was so dark. Not worth watching, maybe worth adding to your 80's slasher collection just for the reason it being the first slasher film to be called Scream before the more updated blockbuster "Scream."