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Scream
Directed by
Wes Craven
R
1996
1h 52m
Crime
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Horror
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7.4
78%
80%
7.4
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In the small town of Woodsboro, California, a masked killer known as Ghostface begins murdering high school students, and a group of friends must use their knowledge of horror movies to unmask the killer.
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Cast of Scream
David Arquette
Dewey Riley
Neve Campbell
Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox
Gale Weathers
Skeet Ulrich
Billy Loomis
Matthew Lillard
Stu Macher
Rose McGowan
Tatum Riley
Jamie Kennedy
Randy Meeks
W. Earl Brown
Kenny Brown
Joseph Whipp
Sheriff Burke
Liev Schreiber
Cotton Weary
Drew Barrymore
Casey Becker
Roger L. Jackson
'The Voice' (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 / Casting
Tony Kilbert
TV Reporter #2
C.W. Morgan
Hank Loomis
Scream Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jeff Daniel
Scream succeeds through its ability to elicit both shrieks of horror and hilarity, as every bad horror movie moment becomes a target for ironic deconstruction and campy send-up.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Michael H. Price
Scream raises the cheesy formula of the stalk-and-slash movie to an unexpected level of intelligence and valid suspense, propelled by believable characters and true-to-life response to extravagant threats.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It's the ultimate game of gotcha.
Dallas Morning News
Beth Pinsker
It's edgy and fun, but not brilliant. And it's no better than it would have been as just a straight horror film.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It can be scary, even when it's mocking the genre's clichéd ways of scaring you. That Scream can get away with doing this is due to the deft touch of horrormeister Craven.
Arizona Republic
Bob Fenster
Scream is not the reinvention of the slasher flick. It's a reinvention of the marketing of a slasher flick.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Remains a highly polished piece of meta-slasher mayhem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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