CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 23 - Scream (1996)

In this week's episode, Steve is joined int he Bear Cave by first-time guest host, Ben Raifsnider of the upcoming X-Files podcast, Little Dead Aliens. His horror movie of choice to talk about today is one of his absolute favorites, Wes Craven's Scream from 1996, the first of the long-running (30 years!) franchise, soon to welcome its seventh installment! Since this is the film that got him into horror in the first place, he shares his love of the original by detailing what makes it such an important film to him. Coming along in the mid-90s, Scream hit a nerve with the movie-going public who had become bored with big-screen horror, proving a hit with audiences across multiple demographics, kicking off a revival of sorts for the slasher/teens-in-the-crosshairs genre, as well as inspiring an era of more meta and self-aware horror. Spawning several o ...