Wes Craven re-invented and revitalized the slasher-horror genre with this movie, which manages to be funny, clever and scary, as a fright-masked knife maniac stalks high-school students in middle-class suburbia. Craven is happy to provide both tension and self-parody as the body count mounts – but the victims aren’t always the ones you’d expect.
This film is rated R and runs 111 minutes.