100 New Movie Classics: No. 75-51

Here's part two of our countdown of the films from 1983 to today that future movie buffs will still be loving 25 years from now — see why ''Unforgiven,'' ''There's Something About Mary,'' ''Scream,'' and more make the grade

By EW Staff Updated June 16, 2008 at 08:00 PM EDT

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2. SCREAM (1996)

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Poised on the knife's edge between parody and homage, Wes Craven's mock thriller revived the slasher films of the '80s in all their gruesomely ritualized glory. Except that the teenagers in Scream have been raised on endless replays of those films, so the sudden appearance of a mad killer becomes a case of life imitating schlock. The killer's mask suggests a plastic version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, and it has the eerie effect of reflecting the audience's fear right back at it.

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