Scream

1996

1h 52m

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7.4/10

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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.

Directors

Wes Craven

Writers

Kevin Williamson(screenplay by)

Stars

David Arquette

Neve Campbell

Courteney Cox

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Top cast

Dewey Riley

Sidney Prescott

Gale Weathers

Tatum Riley

Stu Macher

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Casey Becker

Sheriff Burke

Kenny Brown

'The Voice' (voice)

Steven Orth

Casey's Father

Casey's Mother

Neil Prescott

Cotton Weary

Mrs. Tate

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Directors

Wes Craven

Writers

Kevin Williamson(screenplay by)

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**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.

mooney24003 Sep, 2022