Scream [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Wes Craven Wes Craven

Overview

Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as half-parody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time lately: she's still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her mother a year ago, and now one of her friends (Drew Barrymore) has been killed by a lunatic who harassed her with terrifying phone calls, then stabbed her to death while wearing a Halloween costume. Soon Sydney is receiving similar phone calls, quizzing her on the arcane details of such films as Friday the 13th and Prom Night, and is attacked by the same cloaked maniac. With her father missing, she has hardly anyone on her side except her best friend Tatum (Rose McGowan) and Tatum's brother Dewey (David Arquette), a half-bright cop. As for the murderer, it could be any number of people: Syd's father; her cute but overly intense boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ullrich); Tatum's goofball boyfriend Stuart (Matthew Lillard); or Randy (Jamie Kennedy), who works at the local video store and seems to like horror movies just a little too much. Much like Halloween, Scream spawned a series of sequels and inspired a large number of similar films -- its original working title, Scary Movie, became the title of the 2000 parody film by Damon Wayans.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/02/2021
UPC:	0191329206133
Original Release:	1996
Source:	Miramax
Language:	English
Time:	1:50:00
Sales rank:	2,889

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

David Arquette	Dep. Dewey Riley
Neve Campbell	Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox	Gale Weathers
Drew Barrymore	Casey Becker
Skeet Ulrich	Billy Loomis
Matthew Lillard	Stuart
Rose McGowan	Tatum Riley
Jamie Kennedy	Randy,Ghost Teen No. 2
Henry Winkler	Principal Himbry
Lawrence Hecht	Neal Prescott
Liev Schreiber	Cotton Weary
W. Earl Brown	Kenny
Linda Blair	Obnoxious Reporter
Kevin Patrick Walls	Casey's Father
Carla Hatley	Casey's Mother
Lois Saunders	Mrs. Tate
Joseph Whipp	Sheriff Burke
Lisa Beach	Reporter No. 1
Tony Kilbert	Reporter No. 2
C.W. Morgan	Hank Loomis
Frances Lee McCain	Mrs. Riley
Troy Bishop	Ghost Teen No. 1
Leonora Scelfo	Cheerleader in Bathroom
Nancy Ann Ridder	Girl in Bathroom,Girl in Bathroom
Lisa Canning	Mask Reporter
Bonnie Wood	Young Girl
Lucille Bliss	Check-out Lady
Aurora Draper	Party Teen No. 1
Kenny Kwong	Party Teen No. 2
Justin Sullivan	Teen on Couch
Kurtis Bedford	Bored Teen
Angela Miller	Girl on Couch
Roger L. Jackson	Actor,Voices
David Booth	Actor
David Castaneda	Actor
Wes Craven	Actor
Marco Beltrami	Composer

Technical Credits

Kevin Williamson

Kamar Bitar	Special Effects
Tony Cecere	Stunts
Frank Ceglia	Special Effects
Cathy Konrad	Producer
Marianne Maddalena	Executive Producer,Producer
Bob Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Producer
Cary Woods	Producer
Kevin Williamson	Screenwriter
Wes Craven	Director
Noby Arden	Stunts
Stuart M. Besser	Producer,Executive Producer
Dixie J. Capp	Producer
Rick Alexander	Sound Effects
Roy Baker	Sound Effects
Linda Beach	Casting
Richard Bryce Goodman	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

With contemporary horror master Wes Craven at the helm and a cheekily self-aware script by Kevin Williamson, Scream (1996) single-handedly resuscitated the teen slasher genre for the media-saturated 1990s. From the opening slaughter of blonde star Drew Barrymore through the last-minute heroics of final girls Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox, Scream simultaneously sent up and reenacted 1970s and 1980s slasher film conventions (with a nod to founding father Alfred Hitchcock). With a telephone-and knife-wielding psycho taunting beset babes, clueless authority figures, and references to such slasher chestnuts as Friday the 13th (1980) and Halloween (1978), Scream played off the teen audience's pop knowledge while taking a jab at the debate over the effects of media violence. The teen audience responded by turning the unheralded horror flick into a $100 million smash. Along with spawning the inevitable sequels, Scream's success reestablished the strength of the adolescent demographic and resulted in a host of teen horror movies, including the Williamson-penned I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and The Faculty (1999), as well as establishing Williamson as the teen scribe for the late 1990s.

All Movie Guide - Lucia Bozzola