In 1996, Scream was released to theaters and revitalized the teen slasher genre that had fallen out of favor for much of the decade. It led to a slew of similar off-shoots (I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Faculty to name a few) as well as several sequels of its own. By the early 2000s the subgenre it originated had also grown stale, with the likes of Saw and Hostel becoming the new horror du jour in a paranoid, post-9/11 world…