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Once upon a time in horror cinema, the victim — often female and preferably wearing a backlighted diaphanous gown — would inch up the creaking stairs toward the inevitable. In 1996 “Scream” helped upend the genre with savvy characters who, because they’re as thoroughly steeped in horror-movie clichés as the audience, don’t fall for the [...]