Scream
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Scream
Director: Wes Craven
Starring:
David Arquette
Neve Campbell
Courteney Cox
Matthew Lillard
Rose McGowan
Skeet Ulrich
Jamie Kennedy
Drew Barrymore
Released: December 18, 1996 (Los Angeles)
December 20, 1996 (United States)
Budget: $14–15 million ($27.4M today)
Box Office: $173 Million ($326.6 Million in 2022)
Ratings: IMDb 7.4/10 Rotten Tomatoes 79%
Metacritic 65% Google Users 85%
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1996 International Horror Guild Best FilmScreamWon[72]
Saturn AwardBest ActressNeve CampbellWon[68]Best DirectionWes CravenNominated[73]Best Horror FilmScreamWon[68]Best Supporting ActorSkeet UlrichNominated[73]Best Supporting ActressDrew BarrymoreNominated[73]Best WritingKevin WilliamsonWon[68]
1997MTV Movie AwardBest Female PerformanceNeve CampbellNominated[74]Best MovieScreamWon[74]
Gérardmer Film FestivalGrand PrizeWes CravenWon[69][70]
First Time You Saw It:
Plot:
High school student Casey Becker is home alone when she receives a flirty phone call from an unknown person, during which they discuss horror films. However, the caller turns sadistic and threatens her life. He reveals that her boyfriend Steve Orth is bound and gagged outside on her patio and demands she answer questions about horror films. After Casey answers a question about Friday the 13th incorrectly, Steve is murdered in front of her. Casey is then stabbed and murdered by a person wearing a black robe and a ghost mask, and her parents find her disemboweled corpse hanging from a tree.
News media descend on the town and a police investigation begins. As Sidney Prescott struggles with the first anniversary of her mother Maureen's rape and murder, a news reporter, Gale Weathers, who Sidney dislikes, arrives. Gale was responsible for spreading rumors and conspiracy theories about Maureen's death, insinuating that the imprisoned Cotton Weary, who had been tried and convicted of Maureen's rape and murder, was not responsible for her assault and killing. In the evening while waiting at home for her best friend Tatum Riley to arrive, Sidney gets a taunting phone call and is attacked by the killer. Sidney's boyfriend Billy Loomis arrives shortly after. When he drops his cell phone, Sidney suspects him of making the call and flees. Billy is arrested and questioned, but later, at Tatum's house, Sidney receives another ominous call.
The next day, Billy is released and suspicion shifts to Sidney's father Neil Prescott, due to the ominous phone calls having been traced to his phone. As school is suspended in wake of the murders, the killer stabs Principal Arthur Himbry to death in his office. Tatum's boyfriend and Billy's best friend, Stu Macher, throws a party to celebrate the school's closure. Gale attends uninvited, as she expects the killer will strike again. Tatum's older brother, Deputy Sheriff Dewey Riley, also looks out for the murderer at the party. The killer then murders Tatum by crushing her neck with the garage door. Many party attendees are drawn away after hearing of Himbry's death, leaving only Sidney, Billy, their friend Randy Meeks, Stu, and Gale's cameraman Kenny.
After having sex, Sidney and Billy are confronted by the killer and Billy is seemingly killed. Sidney escapes from the house and seeks help from Kenny, but the killer fatally slashes his throat. Gale crashes her van while escaping and Dewey is stabbed in the back while investigating in the house. Sidney takes his gun for protection. Randy and Stu show up and accuse each other of being the killer, but Sidney retreats back into the house where she finds Billy wounded. After they let Randy inside, Sidney gives Billy the gun, but Billy shoots and injures Randy, revealing himself to be the killer, having faked his attack. Stu reveals himself to be the second killer by talking into a voice changer.
Billy and Stu corner Sidney in the kitchen and discuss their plan to kill her and pin the murder spree on her father, whom they have taken hostage. They also reveal that they murdered her mother and framed Cotton for it, as she was having an affair with Billy's father, which drove his mother away. Gale intervenes, and it allows Sidney to escape and turn the tables on the killers, taunting them with a phone call and donning the killer's costume, before knocking Billy out and dropping a television set on Stu's head, killing him. An enraged Billy awakens and attacks Sidney, but Gale shoots and injures him. Randy is revealed to be wounded but alive, and remarks that the killer always resurfaces for one last scare. As Billy rises, Sidney shoots Billy in the head, finally killing him for good. As police arrive, Dewey, badly injured, is taken away by ambulance as Gale makes an impromptu news report about the night's events.
TOP 5 Facts
1: Henry Winkler, who asked to go uncredited because the producers did not want to detract any attention from the younger, lesser known actors, only ever appears in three scenes in the film, all of which take place in his office.
2: Reese Witherspoon turned down the role of Sidney Prescott.
3: To date, this is the only Scream film in which the two killers are of the same gender, in this instance, Billy and Stu who are both male. Every other subsequent sequel with two killers featured one male and one female killer.
4: At the start of the film when Sidney and Billy are together, "don't fear the reaper" is playing; this is preempts the identity of the killer.
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**REVIEW AND RATING**
Trey 3
Chris
Stephen 2
Tucker 1
TOP 5
Stephen:
1 Breakfast club
2 T2
3 Sandlot
4 Color out of space
5 Mail order brides
Chris:
1. sandlots
2. T2
3. trick r treat
4. rocky horror picture show
5. hubie halloween
Trey:
1) Boondocks Saints
2) Mail Order Brides
3) Tombstone
4) Very bad things
5) She out of my league
Tucker:
1. T2
2: Tombstone
3: My Cousin Vinny
4: John Wick
5: Scream
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