Dead calm prevails over the Atlantic.

The Goddess again comes to his rescue and pieces him together, but she cannot find his phallus, for disincarnate specters on the astral do not possess the physical organs of generation.

What makes Scream so effective, and so timeless, is that it’s both a winking and self-referential breakdown of the tropes of the horror genre and a nearly flawless embodiment of the same.

We interact with them in ways that we don’t with inanimate appliances. (...) We do this because robots have what experts call “social valence,” meaning we ascribe to them human qualities, like personality.