Scream (1996, 79%)
Having eaten its own guts, Antropophagus-style, through endless sequels and bottomed-out budgets, the horror market dried up by the ’90s, as Hollywood perfected blockbuster filmmaking and golden-age American indies flooded theaters. What to do with people who have become bored with horror movies? In the case of Wes Craven, make a horror movie…about people who have become bored with horror movies, killing them at their most meta-vulnerable. The teen slashers flowed again, this time with Millennium-approaching snark.