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Scream

R·1996·112m

Crime

Horror

Mystery

Crime

Horror

Mystery

Summary

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Cast

David Arquette

Dewey Riley

Neve Campbell

Sidney Prescott

Courteney Cox

Gale Weathers

Matthew Lillard

Stu Macher

Rose McGowan

Tatum Riley

Skeet Ulrich

Billy Loomis

Jamie Kennedy

Randy Meeks

W. Earl Brown

Kenny Brown

Joseph Whipp

Sheriff Burke

Liev Schreiber

Cotton Weary

Drew Barrymore

Casey Becker

Roger L. Jackson

Ghostface (voice)

Kevin Patrick Walls

Steven Orth

David Booth

Casey's Father

Carla Hatley

Casey's Mother

Lawrence Hecht

Neil Prescott

Lois Saunders

Mrs. Tate

Lisa Beach

TV Reporter #1

Tony Kilbert

TV Reporter #2

C.W. Morgan

Hank Loomis

Frances Lee McCain

Mrs. Riley

Troy Bishop

Expelled Teen #1

Ryan Kennedy

Expelled Teen #2

Leonora Scelfo

Cheerleader in Bathroom

Nancy Anne Ridder

Girl in Bathroom

Lisa Canning

Reporter with Mask

Bonnie Wood

Young Girl in Video Store

Aurora Draper

Party Teen #1

Kenny Kwong

Party Teen #2

Justin Sullivan

Teen on Couch

Kurtis Bedford

Bored Teen

Angela Miller

Girl on Couch

Henry Winkler

Principal Arthur Himbry (uncredited)

Linda Blair

Obnoxious Reporter (uncredited)

Wes Craven

Fred the Janitor (uncredited)

Lynn McRee

Maureen Prescott (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Wes Craven

Screenplay

Kevin Williamson

Reviews

mooney240

September 3, 2022

**Scream was the first of its kind that redefined horror with new rules, a meta plot, and rebellious unexpected twists.**

Scream followed all the rules and simultaneously broke them in a brilliant self-aware genre reinvention that leveraged every horror movie trope to set up and subvert every expectation. Scream is a love ballad to horror movie fans that intimately knows and zealously honors the legacy of terror-filled films that came before while creating something new, innovative, bold, and surprising. Scream’s dark humor and admiration of overused horror plot points resulted in one of the first meta films in history. Characters know they are living a real-life horror film and yet make dumb and predictable horror movie decisions tricking the viewers into a sort of safety before breaking all the rules and surprising with unexpected twists and turns. Scream was the first of its kind and welcomed a whole new horror sub-genre and a movie franchise that still has no end in sight over 25 years later.