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Scream

Currently 7.12/10
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Rating: 7.1 / 10 (239 votes cast)

In Theatre : December 20, 1996
Director(s): Wes Craven

Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as half-parody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time lately: she's still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her mother a year ago, and now one of her friends (Drew Barrymore) has been killed by a lunatic who harassed her with terrifying phone calls, then stabbed her to death while wearing a Halloween costume. Soon Sydney is receiving similar phone calls, quizzing her on the arcane details of such films as Friday the 13th and Prom Night, and is attacked by the same cloaked maniac. With her father missing, she has hardly anyone on her side except her best friend Tatum (Rose McGowan) and Tatum's brother Dewey (David Arquette), a half-bright cop. As for the murderer, it could be any number of people: Syd's father; her cute but overly intense boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ullrich); Tatum's goofball boyfriend Stuart (Matthew Lillard); or Randy (Jamie Kennedy), who works at the local video store and seems to like horror movies just a little too much.

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Scream Review by DariosDarkness

Scream Someone has Taken Their Love Of Scary Movies One Step Too Far to go on a killing spree,and killing innocent victims but the main target is Sidney Presscott {Neve Campbell} to be killed, SO Don't Answer The Door,Do...

Scream (1996) Review by chris_gottschalk2

This is my review of the teen-slasher movie, Scream. The acting in this movie is overall good. I was impressed that Wes could actually find some really good actors of their age in this time period. The cast fits together...

Scream Review by TheFecalKid

From what I can gather, this film has generated two groups of people. The people who despise it, and the people who love it. Yours truly, falls in the latter. When I was younger, it was all about Star Wars, Indiana Jones...

Scream Review by myersfan72

Sydney is a high school girl, still troubled by the horrible rape and killing of her mother. But recently one of Sydney's freinds is brutally murdered and hung in her front yard.. Sydney then gets strange phonecalls fr...

Scream Review by Googopqp

Scream is about a town being terrorized by a masked killer, wearing the now infamous screaming ghost mask (note the name Ghost Face), and Sidney is caught in the middle of it. Sidney is just your average teen but her mot...

Scream (1996) Review by BlackTequilaKiss

A cult favourite among horror fans. So where does it stand with me? It's pretty damn good but not an all time favourite of mine. For where it succeeds, there are also areas where it fails too. A good movie if a tad over ...

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