{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Born To Watch - A Movie Podcast","title":"Scream (1996)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5939,"description":"Our Scream (1996) Review takes Born to Watch into Woodsboro, where answering the phone is dangerous and throwing a party during a killing spree apparently makes perfect sense. Welcome to the movie review podcast where we do not take the movies or ourselves too seriously. This time, Matt welcomes longtime listener and horror enthusiast Sean Hopkins, the movie lover behind @Moviedad16, for a Halloween double shot with Ghostface.\nWith the usual crew less enthusiastic about horror, Matt has recruited someone who knows this film backwards. Sean first saw Scream at thirteen on a trip to the cinema with his dad, and he promptly became obsessed. Once the VHS arrived, repeat viewings became practically compulsory. Decades later, that enthusiasm remains, making him the perfect guest to revisit a movie that turned horror trivia into a potential survival skill.\nFor Matt, this is another trip back to his cinema-going prime, with the added perspective of introducing Scream to his own family. Their shared affection sets the scene, but nobody gets a free pass. Loving a film and questioning its increasingly ridiculous decisions can absolutely happen at the same time, especially when there is a bloke wandering around a supermarket dressed like the town’s most wanted murderer.\nWes Craven's direction and Kevin Williamson's screenplay give the conversation plenty to chew on. The boys explore a slasher that understands the clichés, openly discusses them and still finds ways to make its characters stumble straight into trouble. Is knowing the rules enough when everyone keeps breaking them? And can a movie take the piss out of horror logic while occasionally relying on exactly the same nonsense?\nThe opening sequence gets plenty of attention, with Drew Barrymore's performance, the escalating phone calls and the horror quiz setting an unforgettable tone. Sean remembers sitting in the cinema convinced his movie knowledge would have helped him survive. Matt brings a slightly more practical...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UW701-GqukZr-1D14eBt8sR44lYKfmwl9ME2kRN8CZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5NzkzLzE2NTQ0/ODExODMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}