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Scream
High school student Casey Becker receives a flirtatious phone call from an unknown person, asking her, 'What's your favorite scary movie?' The situation quickly escalates as the caller turns sadistic and threatens her life. He reveals that her boyfriend Steve Orth is being held hostage. After Casey fails to answer a question correctly about horror films, Steve is murdered. When Casey refuses to cooperate with the caller, she is attacked and murdered by a masked killer.
24 January 1970, Lansing, Michigan, USA
2 August 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 October 1973, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
28 July 1944, York, Pennsylvania, USA
25 May 1970, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
21 September 1972, Warren, Ohio, USA
5 September 1973, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
8 September 1971, Winchester, Virginia, USA
April 04, 2011
...a fun, well-paced slasher...
September 21, 2007
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.
October 06, 2013
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.
May 20, 2011
Remains a highly polished piece of meta-slasher mayhem.
October 06, 2013
The movie's only wrinkle is that it is, in a crude fashion, post-modernist. Pardon me while I alert the media.
October 06, 2013
The movie contains the usual stock horror characters, but they are supplied with dialogue, often surprisingly smart and funny, that serves as a running, biting commentary on slasher conventions.
October 06, 2013
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.
October 06, 2013
It is a fright film that takes elements from classics that evoked the screamin' meemies and reinvents melodramatic applications offering a new spin to slice-and-dice antics. Gallows humor runs rampant, too.
October 06, 2013
Scream builds to a splattering finale that should leave genre fans highly satisfied. Here's one of the year's better thrillers.
September 21, 2007
The pic's chills are top-notch, but its underlying mockish tone won't please die-hard fans.
October 06, 2013
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.
April 19, 2016
Cleverly penned.