The 1996 horror movie Scream revolutionized its genre because, unlike most of the movies that had come before it, the characters had been raised watching horror movies, and they knew all the cliches.
Now the writer of that movie franchise, Kevin Williamson, is back with The Vampire Diaries, a new CW series he is writing and executive producing about teen vampires, debuting September 10th.
So do the Diaries characters exist, as in Scream, in a world that is overrun with fictional vampires?
“Yes, the characters live in the real world,” Williamson tells TheTorchOnline.com. “They go to the movies, they turn on the TV at night, they’ve read Twilight. We actually wrote the scene yesterday when one of the characters finds out Ian Somerhalder is a vampire, and her first question is ‘Why don’t you sparkle?’”
“Because I live in the real world where sunlight and vampires don’t mix!” adds Diaries co-writer and executive producer Julie Plec with a laugh.
Still, Williamson cautions that this isn’t exactly like any of his previous projects.
“This is not going to be Scream or Dawson’s Creek’s heightened pyschobabble,” he says. “It’s going to be its own show. It’s based on a book, and we’re trying to be true to the book.”
Still, he says, “It’s me. I try to have fun where I can. ”
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Is this based on the book series with the same/similar title? I didn’t think that book was cliche free enough to qualify, starting to regret my lack of tv.
Is it really Dairies? Like the Dairy Queen? Seriously? Cause I would have thought Vamps were Lactose intolerant, and none of us want a series with bloated and constipated vamps.
Ha! No, thanks for catching that. I’ve been writing it all day, and making that SAME DAMN MISTAKE!
Could be a whole new direction for the vamp genre.
For the record, your initial comment gave us all a big laugh here. Very funny.
‘Scream’ was really the first major scary movie I saw, having come out when I was 15 or 16, and I loved it. Afterwards, I became a huge horror fan and wanted to see all the movies it pays homage to, but found it difficult to watch these movies where the characters were not endowed with that meta-awareness of Williamson’s characters.
It’s interesting, though, if the Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer/Faculty self-consciousness was post-modern, are we now post-post-modern? Will characters in horror films beware quoting and referencing previous horror movies, lest they sound like the characters in Scream and surely end up dead?
Oh, there it is, I’ve just gone cross-eyed.