Scream Queens: Not Your Average Scare
Scream Queens is a new series that has just started airing on Fox; in a nutshell it is a new genre called Horror Comedy that takes place on an “everyday” college campus. Seemingly out of the blue a masked “Red Devil” begins targeting what is thought to be the “IT” sorority, Kappa Kappa Tau. The audience wants to know if it’s by random or grand design. The big question remains throughout the show, is the Red Devil someone who is just plain evil, or a reminder of the past of Kappa Kappa Tau? Like most “whodunit” shows, it keeps viewers guessing, every episode has the audience questioning a different character each week. Although it may seem like a typical mystery show it should not be overlooked, everything …show more content…
In fact it seems very tacky from the previews, in fact it is pretty tacky. Coincidentally, this is what gives the show at lot of its pizzazz. Mixing humor and scare tactics all in one usually ends up being all funny with a watered down scare factor. This is not the case for Scream Queens; it focuses every bit on the scare as it does on the humor. There is something eerie about a red devil targeting a particular group of people. Thinking about it in a real life situation, it is extremely possible to have someone dress up in a costume and start murdering people. Ghosts and demons are all scary concepts, but that’s just it, they are concepts. A person murdering other people is very real and happens every day. The fact that this could happen at any college is enough to make anyone’s blood run a little cold. On top of the obvious scare of the killings, the squeamish factor of this show is exactly where it needs to be. Scream Queens does not hold back on showing the deaths of the characters. It shows just about everything that most viewers probably don’t even want to see. Scream Queens shows you blood spraying, cut off limbs, faces melted off, decapitation, and other scenarios that will have the audience covering their eyes, or even saying “wow, that was