Episode 171: Scream w/ special guests Raf Stitt & Valerie Morreale

Watch If You Dare

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

5.0 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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For Halloween 2025 and to wrap up the "High School Horror" Season of Spoop, Aaron and Derek are joined by Raf Stitt and Valerie Morreale of the Screenage Wasteland film website and The Canon Podcast to discuss 1996's slasher classic "Scream" directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. They talk about how "Scream" both honors and subverts slasher films, the thematic elements of mass violence in schools, and what it did in revitalizing horror in the 90s. They also get into the undertones of certain relationships between characters, the realism of Ghostface making the slasher more terrifying, all the references to other horror movies, and many other aspects of the film. Val and Raf have a favorite scary movie. Aaron and Derek's parents are going to be so mad at them.Check out Screenage Wasteland at https://screenagewasteland.com/The Canon Podcast can be found on Apple at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-canon-an-essential-movies-watchlist/id1680794257On Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/5WgmNfRzvbLNtPlBC2jkD3?si=ba78aaf2a23646f0&nd=1&dlsi=5b701af83fcb4fa4On Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@ScreenAgeWastelandThey are on Twitter @SAWasteland and @SAWpodcastsRaff's Bluesky: @rafstitt.bsky.socialRaff'x Twitter: @rafstittVal's Bluesky: @val-more.bsky.socialWe are on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio and CastBox. Please rate, review, subscribe, and share our show. Also, check out our Spotify Music playlist, links on our Twitter and Podbean page. Our socials are on Bluesky and Facebook and Twitter @WatchIfYouDare

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0:00.0	Guess what, ghouls and goblins? The Spoop boys have officially joined Patreon.
0:07.2	That's right, the show as you know it will remain the same, ad-free, but our patrons
0:11.8	will have exclusive access to bonus content. Interviews, franchise, deep dives, even are television.
0:18.7	Wait, did you say television? You heard right, Sally.
0:21.7	Becoming a patron means you're not only helping us keep the show running,
0:24.8	but that it also remains available on all platforms, and again, ad-free.
0:28.9	For more details, head on over to patreon.com,
0:31.8	where you can become an official member of the Spoop Troop today.
1:07.5	Welcome to us. member of the Spoop Troop today. Aaron, did you really start recording the podcast?
1:09.2	Bet your ass, I did.
1:13.6	Oh, man, my mom and dad are going to be so mad at me.
1:18.6	Welcome, everyone, to watch Dare, a horror movie podcast hosted by me, The Coward.
1:25.0	Nair and the horror movie Monster Boy, it is our final season of spoof episode for 2025,
1:26.9	our Halloween episode, if you will.
1:27.3	Oh! And again, we are doing high school horror. episode for 2025, our Halloween episode, if you will.
1:31.3	And again, we are doing high school horror.
1:36.0	And we're ending with maybe the ultimate high school horror movie.
1:38.0	Arguably, it's up there.
1:48.9	1996's Scream, which is West Craven's second game changer cementing yourself as a horror master movie in his career.
1:51.9	I would argue third, fourth, yeah.
1:57.4	Dude redefined the horror genre for like three decades straight, yeah.
2:04.1	Yeah, and is a major part of the 90s and any millennial and Gen Xer for sure.
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