Scream

This is what I love about this movie. It’s meta as fuck, has iconic kills, presents a really good killer reveal, it’s funny as fuck, and makes you love each and every character no matter if they’re the final girl, the killer/villain, the idiot, the bitch, the resident best friend or love interest, the movie buff, etc. They give each character the horror movie stereotype but they still give them a personality outside of that and a good backstory and motive for everything that they do. They actually make you care for the characters, and you actually feel sad when they die which is not what they do nowadays. They shoe in random characters just to add to the body count and they refuse to give them a story or any sort of importance outside of that - but ‘Scream’ doesn’t do that, it actually gives a fuck about its characters and they cared to make a good story. And even if you can correctly guess the killer(s), they still cast reasonable doubt on them being the big bad while still casting suspicion onto the other characters. Even on rewatch, it’s still fun to watch every single time with seeing the little details on how the killers act. Plus the soundtrack just has me throwing it back every time I hear it and we know how I feel about a good soundtrack. Wes Craven, I miss you and your storytelling more than ever.