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Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore.
- Scream (Franchise)
About. The first four films follow Sidney Prescott and her...
- Gainesville Ripper
Daniel "Danny" Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25,...
- Characters
Appeared in: Scream (1996), Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4,...
- Lynn McRee
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to...
- Rose McGowan
Rósa Arianna "Rose" McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an...
- Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an...
- Matthew Lillard
Matthew Lillard (born January 24, 1970) is an American...
- Cathy Konrad
Cathy Konrad (born June 29, 1963) is an American film and...
- Gale Weathers
Gale Weathers is a fictional character of the Scream film...
- Casey Becker
Casey Becker is a fictional character from the Scream...
- Scream (Franchise)
Scream: Directed by Wes Craven. With Drew Barrymore, Roger Jackson, Kevin Patrick Walls, David Booth. 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.
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- Horror, Mystery
- Wes Craven
- 1996-12-20
About. The first four films follow Sidney Prescott and her struggle against a succession of murderers who adopt the guise of Ghostface to stalk and kill their victims, the killers often motivated by revenge, jealousy, and seeking notoriety.
Scream is a 1996 American slasher movie directed by Wes Craven. It was written by Kevin Williamson . The film stars David Arquette , Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , Matthew Lillard , Seth Green , Dax Shepard , Freddie Prinze Jr. , Rose McGowan , Skeet Ulrich , Jamie Kennedy and Drew Barrymore .
- Plot
- Cast & Characters
- The Rules
- References to Other Horror Films
- Satirical/Self-Referential Style
- Reaction
- VHS and DVD Releases
- Mistakes
- Trivia
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Synopsis
A year after Sidney's mom is murdered, more murders start to occur. She begins to suspect if these murders are related and tries to find the killer as everyone seems to be a suspect.
Summary
Casey Becker, home alone, answers her ringing phone. The man on the other end says he must have dialed the wrong number and hangs up. Soon after he calls again, making flirtatious comments and asking about her boyfriend. At first, Casey plays along, but soon the man starts making threatening and sadistic comments. From there, he goes on to reveal that her boyfriend is tied up on the back patio. Now in control, the caller turns the situation into an extreme horror trivia contest. If Casey answ...
Main characters
1. Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott: Sidney is going through a rough time throughout the film, dealing with problems such as the anniversary of her mother Maureen's murder, as well as her boyfriend wanting to lose their virginity to each other. She has a rivalry with the obnoxious news-reporter Gale Weathers due to her writing a book filled with lies and rumors about her mother's murder trial. Along with Gale, Sidney manages to defeat the killer at the end of the film. 1. Courteney Cox as Gal...
Notable minor characters
1. Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker: The false protagonistwho is murdered in the opening of the film. 1. Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface. 1. C.W Morgan as Hank Loomis: the father of Billy Loomis. 1. Henry Winkler as Principal Arthur Himbry(uncredited): The school principal. He expresses concern for the insensitivity of two students who mock Casey and Steve's murder, until he himself is killed by Ghostface. 1. Lawrence Hecht as Neil Prescott: Sidney's father. He is away on business an...
Major cameo characters
1. Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary: the accused killer of Sidney Prescott's mother and with whom she had a secret affair. 1. Kevin Patrick Walls as Steven Orth: Casey Becker's boyfriend who gets killed in the beginning of the movie. 1. Lynn McRhee as Maureen Prescott(photos only, uncredited): Sidney's mother.
A signature device, started in Scream and continued in future films, was the typical "rules" for the slasher subgenre of horror movies being stated by the characters. In Scream, those rules (as described by Randy) are: 1. You may not survive the movie if you have sex. 2. You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs. 3. You may not survive...
The film features numerous in-jokes and references to other horror projects. The victims in Screamare quite self-aware: they each make clear their familiarity with, and poke fun at, teen slasher and horror flicks, which sets up their fairly ironic responses to the film's situations. Two of the most common references are to A Nightmare on Elm Street...
Scream is very much aware that it is a movie, and has fun with this. During the opening scene, Casey discusses movies, sequels, and trivia with the killer on the phone. Randyseems almost unable to tell the difference between a movie world and his own world. He constantly compares what is going on to situations in horror films, and at one point even...
Box office performance
The film opened in 1,413 theaters, taking $6,354,586 in its opening weekend. The film made almost 87 million dollars in its initial release, and was then re-released to theatres on April 11, 1997 and went on to make another 16 million, making total a domestic gross of $103,046,663, with, as of 2007, a worldwide lifetime gross of $173,046,663. It peaked at number 3 in the U.S. domestic box office. The film's success made it the highest grossing slasher movie as of 2009.
Critical reception
The reaction to Scream was generally very positive amongst film reviewers, who appreciated the shift from the teen slasher films of the 1980s and their "endless series of laborious, half-baked sequels." Williamson's script was praised as containing a "fiendishly clever, complicated plot" which "deftly mixes irony, self-reference and wry social commentary with chills and blood spills." Roger Ebert appreciated "the in-jokes and the self-aware characters", but was confused over whether the level...
Awards
The film won several awards, including Best Movie at the MTV Movie Awards 1997, and Saturn Awards for Best Actress (Neve Campbell), Best Writer and Best Horror Film. Craven was awarded the Grand Prize at the Gérardmer Film Festival.
The original, gorier version of the film was released on VHS in 1997. The box covers classified the film as rated "R" even though it was actually the unrated version. The unrated cut was only available on video when the film was released for sale to the general public while the rental version, released earlier that year, still contained the theatri...
Like in all movies, there have been some mistakes or "goofs" in the Scream saga. Here are some of them: 1. When Billy is being put in the cop car, some equipment is visible (mic, camera) 2. When Ghostface is pulling Casey, you can see some protection around her neck, so she doesn't get hurt while being pulled. 3. At the same scene as above, when Gh...
Filming took place over eight weeks.To keep Drew Barrymore looking scared and crying, director Wes Craven kept telling her real life stories about animal cruelty. She is a keen animal lover in real life.Barrymore shot all of her scenes in the first five days of production.William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying(1930) features a character named Skeet McGowan (Scream features actors Skeet Ulrich and Rose McGowan) and a character named Dewey just as Scream does.Scream at the Internet Movie DatabaseScream at Rotten TomatoesA peaceful town in California turns into a bloodbath when a masked killer haunts the town. Sidney Prescott, a young teenage girl, whose mother was killed a year before, becomes the target of the mask killer! Her boyfriend Billy Loomis becomes the main suspect along with Sidney's father.
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Dec 20, 1996 · “Scream” is self-deconstructing; it's like one of thosecans that heats its own soup. Wes Craven's “Scream” violates one of the oldest rules in moviehistory: It's about characters who go to the movies.
