What's your favorite scary movie?
This movie started out setting the tone for a mixture of humor & horror. Ghostface ended up being one of the scariest killers in a movie IMHO. But the humor is what kept me watching. Randy Meeks (played by Jamie Kennedy) has a nerdy obsession with horror flicks and guides Sidney Prescott (played by Neve Campbell) through the original and first 2 sequels of the series.
I like the Scream series for it's "winking straight at the camera" way of dealing with the horror genre.