The Horror Film That 'Scream' Allegedly Ripped Off
December 18, 2018
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as posted by the channelIn 1989, Rolfe Kanefsky, who was then 19 years old, cobbled together $100,000 to make his dream film. That’s how the first selfaware, metatextual horror film was born. Then, five years after Kanefsky's film "There's Nothing Out There" tanked at the box office, Wes Craven would make millions on a very, very similar film... called "Scream." Read more
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