Scream Movie
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Don't Answer The Phone. Don't Open The Door. Don't Try To Escape.
Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.
Someone's Taken Their Love Of Scary Movies One Step Too Far!
Make Your Last Breath Count.
Now someone is victim and someone is a suspect
From The First Name In Suspense Comes The Last Word In Fear
Don't Answer The Door, Don't Leave The House, Don't Answer The Phone, But Most Of All, Don't SCREAM.
Now everybody is a victim and everybody is a suspect!
A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed Campbell's mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Campbell's boyfriend (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the prime suspect.
| Matthew Lillard | Stuart Macher |
| Courteney Cox | Gale Weathers |
| Drew Barrymore | Casey Becker |
| Kevin Patrick Walls | Steven Orth |
| Neve Campbell | Sidney Prescott |
| David Arquette | Deputy Dwight 'Dewey' Riley |
| Rose McGowan | Tatum Riley |
| Skeet Ulrich | Billy Loomis |
| Jamie Kennedy | Randy Meeks |
| Joseph Whipp | Sheriff Burke |
| David Booth | Mr. Becker |
| Lawrence Hecht | Neil Prescott |
| W. Earl Brown | Kenneth Jones |
| Roger Jackson | Phone Voice |
| Liev Schreiber | Cotton Weary |
| Wes Craven |
7.10 out of 10 (64281 votes)
Visitor Reviews
It isn't even funny how bad this is...
posted on 27 Aug 2009BRIEF SPOILER AHEAD!Even though this movie isn't totally boring, this is by far one of the dumbest 'slasher' films ever. The killers in the film are unbelievable idiots, and I don't see why they bothered murdering all Sidney's friends since she was the only one they were after. I cannot believed they made this movie into a trilogy. The creators should have just stopped after this atrocity.* / **** stars. Just horrible.
New Breath for the Horror Genre
posted on 18 Aug 2009Horror movies had sort of run into a rut before Scream came along with its wit and new take on these predictable films. It is, in the simplest terms, a spoof, (a very scary spoof). But there were two things that made it so good: 1, Everyone was a suspect, 2,The Killer could have been anywhere at anytime. The fact that the audience had to deal with something popping out around every corner and hints at every character being the evil-doer made it intriguing and frightfully entertaining. Our movie buff, Randy, directed us through the film with his accurate insight into the horrific plot unfolding around him..."There's always some stupid bulls!@t reason to kill your girlfriend, that's the beauty of it all: SIMPLICITY! Besides, if it gets too complicated, you lose your target audience." Comments like these made it so enlightening and showed writer Kevin Williamson's ingenuity and brilliance. Overall it should be remebered as the horror film of the 90's.
Truly a Classic
posted on 31 Jul 2009Scream without a doubt can be considered a cult classic in the horror genre. It's sarcastic humor, extreme gore factor, and creepiness combined make Scream one of the best, if not, the best horror movies of all time. It's strong ensemble, probably the best ever in a horror movie, consisting of Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Skeet ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, and drew barrymore all bring out their characters in an unbelievable way (considering horror is not a genre known for its great acting) The script written by Kevin williamson is probably one of the best parts of the movie especially the sarcastic humor as it refers to other movies of the genre and the suspenseful and witty dialogue undoubtfully along with the great acting. Let's not forget suspense master wes Craven, who pretty much created the death scenes and shocking violent movies that truly made this movie one to be remembered.
Tricky, clever, and just fun
posted on 31 Jul 2009The reason that I find this film to be so clever, is that all of the characters are aware of the formula to slasher movies, yet they seem to be in one. The story involves a teenager named Sydney Presscott (Neve Campbell) who's mother was killed one year before the murder's start to happen again. No matter where Sydney seems to go, everyone around her begins to die. When the killer is revealed, you'll be shocked. Something you can't help but love about Scream is all of the quotes and references to older slasher movies. Scream can be just as funny as it is scary, and can be enjoyed by just about anybody. My only problem with Scream is the dragged out climax, but overall a real thrill. 10/10
***1/2 out of ****; Grade: A-
posted on 25 Jul 2009Rightfully imitated revival of the teen slasher flick follows a group of high school students through the usual threats and deaths, with a twist: they have seen many films just like the one they are starring in, and comment incessantly about what is happening. Terrific film features a multi-talented cast, a witty, starmaking script by Williamson, and tense, perfect direction from Craven. Very funny and very scary. Followed by two sequels.
Rrrriiinnnngggg....Hello ! What´s your favorite scary movie ??
posted on 22 Jul 2009That movie is the movie that brought the horror genre back to the screen ! The director Wes Craven already had experience, he directed great horror films like " Nightmare on Elm Street " and " The People Under the Stairs ". Here, just the beginning shows to us what Wes Craven and Kevin Willianson together can make. Well, the movie began already with a good and pretty actress Drew Barrymore, a blond and innocent girl, who was alone in her house, making popcorn, waiting for the boyfriend to watch two good scary movies, but then, the phone rings, no big deal...But....I wouldn't tell you nothing about this movie, in case of you are not seeing it yet, because it is really better you watch that movie without knowing anything at all...Well, enjoy the movie, the blonds ( and brunettes ), the killer, the stabs, the blood, and everything..
Well Done Wes Craven
posted on 22 Jul 2009Wes Craven is the master of horror in my opinion. Scream was the best horror movie in a long while. Before Scream came out horror fans had been starved of any great horror films.The idea may not be original but it didn't matter; Wes Craven made a good film in Scream. Most people will know the plot. It was great and there was plenty of gore throughout. The best part was trying to guess the identity of the killer. There were so many suspects both male and female and plenty of red herrings throughout the film.The casting for this movie was spot on. Neve Campbell was brilliant as Sidney Prescott and I particularly enjoyed Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers. Credit must also go to David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard. This was a great film but unfortunately it spawned a host of imitators none of which could hold a candle to this film (although I Know What You Did Last Summer and it's sequel were very good). I doubt whether anyone who watches this film will correctly guess the identity of the killer.
A change for the horror genre
posted on 19 Jul 2009"Scream" is completely entertaining and totally terrifying. In a time when horror was losing its touch, Kevin Williamson wrote this clever script and Wes Craven brought it to life beautifully, reinventing the modern slasher and still remaining better than most of the films that followed it.Neve Campbell is Sydney Prescott, a shy girl who's life is turned upside down when somebody begins murdering her friends. In comes Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) and a hilarious reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox, the best character in the film) to investigate the murders and stay alive.The movie is funny and scary, with homages to famous older horror classics the entire way through, and the climax is excellently tense. A horror movie that started a legacy.
The Ideal Movie
posted on 13 Jul 2009This movie is almost without flaw. The concept to make fun of slasher movies in a slasher movie is genius. Mutiple killers never saw it coming.
The best scene of the movie is when Jamie Kennedy pauses Halloween, stands up in front of the television set and explains the rules to survive a scary movie "There are certain rules one must abide by to survive a horror movie.
Rule number 1, you can never have sex, big no no, big no no. Rule number 2, you can't drink or do drugs, the sin factor. And rule number 3, Never say I'll be right back, because you wont be back". Another reason the movie is great is because they explain that a serial killer without any apparant motive is always scarier(Michael Myers H1, Norman Bates Psycho, Hannibal Lecter Silence of the Lambs, and Phone rambler Black Christmas). Which I do strongly agree with. The thing that I love about this movie is that the killer's are so inventive with their style and methods.10/10.
The best movie I've ever seen
posted on 10 Jul 2009I love horror movies, but lately I have not been impressed with the genre Scream was every thing I had been waiting for. It starts with a bang and ends with a bigger bang. Unlike your average horror movie it isn't all slash 'em kill 'em with no plot. Scream started the new age of horror movies. I could not figure out who the killer was. I think that added to the movie and made it more intersting. I changed my guess to the killer about five times and I ended up being wrong. If you only see one horror movie it should be scream.
Scream is funny, hip,and scary. What else could you ask for.
posted on 07 Jul 2009Scream was definitely more than I thought it was going to be. I thought it would be typical slasher movie with the killer who never kills twenty people, and the one person left alive has to come back and destroy the killer in the ten other sequels. I was amazed at how great the script was and hot well it was acted. I felt the screenplay should have won an Oscar for best movie and screenplay. The dialogue in this movie is exactly the same as a what a teenager would say. (I should know because I am one myself.) Because of all the plot twists, you never know the outcome of the film or who the killer is. I loved this movie and I recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.
The horror movie of the 90s
posted on 07 Jul 2009Scream is without a doubt the best horror movie of the 90s. It has everything, great murder scenes, a memorable ending, even comedy. It has made careers for many actors/actresses just because it was so good. Kevin Williamson's script is masterful, he keeps you guessing until the death (sorry that's not funny is it). The film is completed by Wes Craven the master horror director. DO NOT MISS IT!!!
A modern dramatic horror tale
posted on 07 Jul 2009Not to be compared with Shining, mainly because they are both Horror movies but different in the genre. While one is psychological, Scream is almost a slasher movie, a horror movie based in all others of the 70s and 80s. Also, very well directed as Shining was - really, Wes Craven almost reach the Kubrick's status in that movie.Scream is not to be taken that serious as Shining does. Scream is a compilation of 80s gore flicks which terrified children and were the favorite hobby of young adults to watch in terrifying nights as Halloween's.Slasher movies weren't made to be taken seriously and always were a bunch of B-crap with B-actors, B-script and B-director. Well, being Scream a compilation of all those then you got to say it has to be way better than those ones. Mainly because, as you may know, a COMPILATION is a compendium of all the best works of something or someone. Then, try like this: gather all the tiny good scenes from that 80's horror flicks and you'll get it - SCREAM, from WES CRAVEN and KEVIN WILLIAMSON (what good scriptwriting for a teen horror movie!) and from 1996 - next to the "MILLENNIUM".To conclude I must say the performances really admired me. Neve Campbell was amazing as was the rest of the crew - Skeet Ulrich and Matt Lillard surprised me too but it was the old Monica from Friends that I was looking forward to - Courtney Cox.Enjoy this terrifying tale! Well, not so terrifying... but, at least, for a horror movie these days... well, it was well done!!!
Parody at its apex.
posted on 28 Jun 2009A movie that so many people, including a reviewer on this very website, fail to properly comprehend or get, and one that I'm sure will be looked upon far more affectionately as the years pass. From beginning to end it's one huge tongue in cheek exploration into the conventions that follow and define the slasher movie genre. Never does it take itself as seriously as many of it's viewers do, and never does it lull you into taking it seriously as a plethora of overt clues (the big star death in the opening scene; the movie geek who predicts everything that happens before it actually does; the fumbling underdog who becomes an unlikely hero; the ridiculously overdrawn murder sequences etc) crop up throughout the film time and again just in case those pretentious little twits among us ever get the urge to place this alongside Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," or something as equally outrageous. The habitual camera winks the script and the performers give and encourage (Particularly the brilliant Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy) are what sets this apart from many other feeble attempts within the genre and this arrogant form of film-making is probably what made many viewers misconstrue just what the film aims to do.Yes, this movie could be considered horror ("slasher" is the ridiculous term more commonly abused), but to pigeonhole as such is to do one of the 90's greatest parodies/black comedies an immense disservice. If I could hyperbole for a second: not since Shakespeare have comedy and tragedy met in such a dynamic concoction; and rarely has a film captured the imagination of the its viewers so firmly that it's actual premise and concept have been completely ignored and misinterpreted to a point where it has been taken far more seriously than the writers, the director and or the script ever intended it to. That's the beauty of this most wonderful film. So clever it hurts. In fact, it was so good, it still, to this day, continues to be taken seriously. Magnificence personified.
Entertaining Horror
posted on 22 Jun 2009The first time you watch Scream, you'll be scared to the death from its suspense, phone calls, blood and twists. It surely is one hell of an experience watching it the first time, easily one of the most successful horror's of the 90s. After a second, third, fourth or even fifth viewing it doesn't have the same feeling that it did the first time. You know the twist, the ending, what's going to happen. Similar to Saw in it's own way, it still provides entertainment but not that scariness and thrills it did from the first viewing. No doubt it created a modern horror icon and was directed by a living horror legend "Wes Craven" (Nightmare on Elm Street). A very suspenseful horror loaded with plenty of violence, a twist and the typical but executed well elements. All in, a great horror.
Not Bad
posted on 19 Jun 2009I don't like most of the actors, I don't like any of the sequels, but I do like the original. Scream is a great film. Scream 2 was bad, Scream 3 was worse, Friends is bad, Neve Campbell is worse, Skeet is a nobody, but still Scream is cool. I gave Scream 7/10. It has a great script, great characters, great atmosphere, and what every great horror film needs, plot twists. I beg all of you to buy Scream and watch it, and then rent Scream 2&3 and before you watch them burn them.
I'll scream right back!
posted on 07 Jun 2009The Best: Being the first in the series of the over explored teen horror movies, the fact of being the pioneer. This first chapter as well as the third were the ones that scared more the viewer as well as were the more laughable ones relating to the black humour. The Worst: The movie has almost two hours but as well as any good movie it passes like it had only half an hour, which is something that can be not good. Rating: 8/ 10Two young teenagers have been murdered by a dysfunctional killer that took his love for scary movies one step too far… the day after on the local high school of Woodsboro, the police is in a commotion, every student his being asked about their relationships with the frustrated students. This story is particularly interesting the young student Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her group of friends, her boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich), Tatum (Rose McGowan), Dewey (David Arquette), Stu (Mathew Lillard) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy) and the opportunist reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox). Sidney's relationship with Billy isn't the best currently as her mother's one year death anniversary approaches, having in the background all of these sudden and macabre deaths on campus. Deaths are becoming more frequent, bodies ‘pile' up, Sidney gets attacked, never knowing in who to trust she realizes that the deaths are all coming each time closer to her… The killer seems to be everywhere at any time, to scare everyone.As I said, after this movie movies with a killer with a knife chasing high school students and killing them start appearing countlessly. Although, the script and general quality of this movie started being insulted and imitated with movies trying to let themselves too seriously, of course failing… Anyway, Scream always came out as a winner and it still remains so as a common know. Not to be forgotten that this movie is considered one of the all time best horror films, and my God it deserves it so much! Like a declaration I heard sometime ago: ` Horror/ Scary movies are only good and really frightening when they can happen to anyone, at any place, at any time'.I was to write this review a few time ago, but I decided to go rent this movie again so I could be more inspired doing it. One tip: the perfect set is alone at house or with your friends at night lights off, closed doors, window(s) opened and curtains closed dancing in the wind! One last thing, a goof actually, one that really p***ed me off: when Casey Becker gets killed, and hanged on the tree, you can clearly see that she is a toy or a stunt as the faces are completely different, and when `someone' is killed on the garage and electrocuted you can clearly tell that it is a toy by the look of its skin.Don't wait and go see it, if you already have, do it again! 8/10
Good, in and of itself
posted on 01 Jun 2009A lot of people hate this movie, mostly because it inspired the glut of awful postmodern horror flicks we've endured over the last few years. The complaint is valid (don't get me started about Urban Legends: Final Cut), but don't let that stop you from watching and appreciating this movie for what it is. Scream really is a good film. Sure, some of the characters are a bit annoying and some scenes just kind of slow things down, but as a whole the movie is exciting, well-written, and occasionally truly frightening. The Drew Barrymore sequence, as overly familiar as it has become, is horror filmmaking of a high order--Craven proves that even the same old cliches can be frightening if they are used with the right timing and balance. It's nearly impossible to make a good slasher film, since the genre has been so overdone; Scream pulls it off, and does it with a smile on its face.Sure the sequels and imitators and spoofs are awful. Sure Craven and his colleagues fell back into the same old rut that this movie protested. But Scream exists on a higher level than the rest of the pack.
i love scream
posted on 30 Aug 2009i thought this movie was awesome and scary i love scary movies of course who doesn't i think you should make more of them there awesome my favorite part was when that chicks boy friend was caught by scream and tied in a chair and scream said turn out the lights and she did and heard a noise so she turn on the lights and her boy friend had no stomach that part was so cool i hope you come out with a whole lot of more scary movies in the future you make the best I'm am such a big fan and the only reason I'm still writing is because i have to have 10 lines to post this comment and i am running out of things to write well like you really care you are the one who said so.