What’s your favorite scary movie? Scream, the 1996 horror classic, is a commentary on tech and media frights

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Scream was created against the backdrop of increasing anxiety about tech and media. And the film is practically screaming at all of us about it.

In this special Halloween episode, Bridget joins Annie and Sam from Stuff Mom Never Told You to examine how our collective fears about technology, fame, and the media play out in the lives (and deaths!) of the movies’ teenagers.

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0:00.0	There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:12.0	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:17.0	Happy Halloween! Halloween is my favorite holiday.
0:21.6	Yes, I am one of those people who starts preparing for spooky season even while we're still solidly in summer.
0:28.6	I live for a horror movie, and I think there's just something about how horror is able to do sharp satire or social commentary against the backdrop of a spooky story.
0:38.5	So when I sat down to rewatch the 1996 horror classic Scream last week, a movie that I have
0:44.3	not seen since I was a kid, I realize this is a movie that is desperately trying to tell us
0:49.4	something about our collective rights around media and technology. I joined my friend Samantha and Scream Scholar in Residence, Annie,
0:58.0	over at the podcast Stuff Mom Ever told you
1:00.1	to discuss how Scream is a commentary on all of our collective tech and media anxieties.
1:05.1	So listen, if you dare.
1:20.6	I do think there. I do think that there's something about anxiety around technology, communication systems. How many scary movies had the trope of like, the phone's gone dead, or like some bit of technology that we maybe don't fully understand or
1:30.0	don't fully respect or appreciate coming back to get us. Like that is a common, I believe,
1:36.8	like a common trope that is really related to our anxieties collectively around technology,
1:42.5	particularly new technology, or like over-reliance on technology,
1:46.3	that really sets us up for a kind of horror situation.
1:50.4	Yeah.
1:51.0	And I've noticed there's like a whole newish genre of like movies like unfriended or movies
1:59.0	about like social media and these kind of technologies that are part of our everyday lives.
2:04.6	It's also interesting to see other movies like missing or searching where they're trying to explain.
2:09.6	Because a lot of horror movies, yeah, it's like, oh, the phone's not working really.
2:13.6	Like trying to explain how technology can fit into that or how it doesn't and can't.
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