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7.4/10 • 7K

1996-12-201h 52m

CrimeHorrorMystery

Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.

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
Editors
Patrick Lussier

Top Billed Cast

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  1. David Arquette

    David Arquette

    Dewey Riley

  2. Neve Campbell

    Neve Campbell

    Sidney Prescott

  3. Courteney Cox

    Courteney Cox

    Gale Weathers

  4. Matthew Lillard

    Matthew Lillard

    Stu Macher

  5. Rose McGowan

    Rose McGowan

    Tatum Riley

  6. Skeet Ulrich

    Skeet Ulrich

    Billy Loomis

  7. Jamie Kennedy

    Jamie Kennedy

    Randy Meeks

  8. W. Earl Brown

    W. Earl Brown

    Kenny Brown

  9. Joseph Whipp

    Joseph Whipp

    Sheriff Burke

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The Movie Mob

Sep 3, 2022

10/10

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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$14,000,000.00
Revenue
$173,046,663.00
Keywords
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