Tagline
“What's your favorite scary movie?”
The Review
Wes Craven's Scream performed the impossible: it deconstructed the slasher genre while simultaneously being one of the best slasher films ever made. Kevin Williamson's screenplay is a love letter to horror that also functions as a razor-sharp satire of its conventions. The opening twelve minutes — Drew Barrymore's phone call with Ghostface — is the most perfectly constructed horror sequence of the 1990s. Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott is the post-modern final girl: she knows the rules, she knows the tropes, and she refuses to be a victim. Scream single-handedly resurrected the horror genre after a decade of diminishing returns and launched a franchise that remains culturally relevant.
Fun Fact
Drew Barrymore was originally cast as Sidney Prescott but asked to play Casey Becker instead, arguing that killing the biggest star in the first scene would shock audiences more. She was right. The Ghostface mask was found by a location scout in a random house during pre-production.
Score Breakdown
Total Score
25/30
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