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Scream
1996 1h 52m R
Crime
,
Horror
,
Mystery
7.4
81%
80%
74%
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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.
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Directed By
Wes Craven
Written By
Kevin Williamson
Studio
Dimension Films
,
Woods Entertainment
,
Miramax
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Cast of Scream
Neve Campbell
Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox
Gale Weathers
Skeet Ulrich
Billy Loomis
Rose McGowan
Tatum Riley
David Arquette
Dewey Riley
Matthew Lillard
Stu Macher
Jamie Kennedy
Randy Meeks
W. Earl Brown
Kenny Brown
Joseph Whipp
Sheriff Burke
Liev Schreiber
Cotton Weary
Drew Barrymore
Casey Becker
Roger L. Jackson
Ghostface (voice)
Kevin Patrick Walls
Steven Orth
David Booth
Casey's Father
Carla Hatley
Casey's Mother
Lawrence Hecht
Neil Prescott
Lois Saunders
Mrs. Tate
Lisa Beach
TV Reporter #1
Tony Kilbert
TV Reporter #2
C.W. Morgan
Hank Loomis
Frances Lee McCain
Mrs. Riley
Troy Bishop
Expelled Teen #1
Ryan Kennedy
Expelled Teen #2
Leonora Scelfo
Cheerleader in Bathroom
Nancy Anne Ridder
Girl in Bathroom
Lisa Canning
Reporter with Mask
Bonnie Wood
Young Girl in Video Store
Aurora Draper
Party Teen #1
Kenny Kwong
Party Teen #2
Justin Sullivan
Teen on Couch
Kurtis Bedford
Bored Teen
Angela Miller
Girl on Couch
Henry Winkler
Principal Arthur Himbry (uncredited)
Linda Blair
Obnoxious Reporter (uncredited)
Wes Craven
Fred the Janitor (uncredited)
Matt McDonald
Video Customer (uncredited)
Freddy W. Smith
Hall Monitor (uncredited)
Scream Reviews
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The picture is so full of cross-references, self-mockery and movies within movies (including a stalking that's recorded on video) that it can't help turning into a precious two-hour in-joke.
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Scream may be a cut above the gore fests that line the dimly lit back wall at your video store, but it is a far cry from genre classics like Halloween or Craven's own Nightmare On Elm Street.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
By the time Scream arrives at its final twist, Craven has done too many contortions of his own to give the finale much shock value.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Remains a highly polished piece of meta-slasher mayhem.
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
While Scream has its frights, it feels more like one of those solve-the -mystery jigsaw puzzles than a real movie.
Newsweek
David Ansen
No one will ever consider Wes Craven's Scream Oscar fodder, but this funny and scary little experiment in terror from the man who invented "Nightmare on Elm Street" puts some fun back into a very tired genre.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
Scream builds to a splattering finale that should leave genre fans highly satisfied. Here's one of the year's better thrillers.
Variety
Leonard Klady
The pic's chills are top-notch, but its underlying mockish tone won't please die-hard fans.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The assumption that there's something inherently clever about a slasher movie making reference to both its genre and the filmmaking process is a fundamental flaw of this tiresome, blood-filled comedy.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
If the people who made Scream were half as clever as they seem to think they are, this would be a much smarter movie.
Washington Post
Richard Harrington
The best fright fest of the '90s.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A bravura, provocative sendup of horror pictures that's also scary and gruesome yet too swift-moving to lapse into morbidity.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
The film plays lively games with the macabre.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Whatever you do, don't close your mind to such an inventive concoction. One last time, despite all your better instincts, go ahead -- open that theater door.
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
Craven has expressed a desire to get out of the horror business. Maybe that's why he's set out to make more than a horror movie. He's contributing to a long tradition of reflexive films, going back as far as the turn of the century.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I liked it. I liked the in-jokes and the self-aware characters. At the same time, I was aware of the incredible level of gore in this film.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Craven is obviously having a ball here, and it's impossible not to sit back and go grinning into this dark, gory ride.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Not even horror fans who can answer all this film's knowing trivia questions may be fully comfortable with such an exploitative mix.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Scream is a rarity: a horror movie spoof that succeeds almost as well at provoking scares as laughs.
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