GBW #3: Is That a Knife in Your Pocket? (Scream / I Know What You Did Last Summer / Sleepaway Camp)

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed "good," "bad," or "what!?" within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor's filmography, and more!

On this episode, Chris picked slasher films, specifically the “whodunnit?” subsection of the slasher genre, and even more specifically, ones with deconstructionist and/or postmodernist elements. We start with what is likely the first film that comes to mind based on that description, which is 1996’s “Scream,” director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson’s razor-sharp cultural behemoth that is largely credited for revitalizing the slasher subgenre in the ‘90s. Then, we move onto the other film that along with “Scream” is credited for the slasher revival (and also penned by Williamson): 1997’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Chris and Ryan get into a slight debate over whether or not it constitutes the “bad” label. Before moving onto the “What?”, we naturally had to fit in some chatter on 2000’s “Scary Movie,” the spoof hit whose “plot” riffs heavily on “Scream” and “IKWYDLS.” Finally, we go back to the '80s slasher heyday with 1983’s “Sleepaway Camp,” an unconventional slasher that, for all its weird rhythms and the infamous twist ending, also subverts the expected tropes of the subgenre.

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