Scream
Directed by Wes Craven
Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.
| Released | December 20, 1996 |
| Global Box Office | $173.05m |
| Budget | $14m |
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.
Starring David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox... Show All
- David Arquette - Dewey Riley
- Neve Campbell - Sidney Prescott
- Courteney Cox - Gale Weathers
- Matthew Lillard - Stu Macher
- Rose McGowan - Tatum Riley
- Skeet Ulrich - Billy Loomis
- Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks
- W. Earl Brown - Kenny Brown
- Joseph Whipp - Sheriff Burke
- Liev Schreiber - Cotton Weary
- Drew Barrymore - Casey Becker
- Roger L. Jackson - Ghostface (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
- Tony Kilbert - TV Reporter #2
- C.W. Morgan - Hank Loomis
- Frances Lee McCain - Mrs. Riley
- Troy Bishop - Expelled Teen #1
- Ryan Kennedy - Expelled Teen #2
- Leonora Scelfo - Cheerleader in Bathroom
- Nancy Anne Ridder - Girl in Bathroom
- Lisa Canning - Reporter with Mask
- Bonnie Wood - Young Girl in Video Store
- Aurora Draper - Party Teen #1
- Kenny Kwong - Party Teen #2
- Justin Sullivan - Teen on Couch
- Kurtis Bedford - Bored Teen
- Angela Miller - Girl on Couch
- Henry Winkler - Principal Arthur Himbry (uncredited)
- Linda Blair - Obnoxious Reporter (uncredited)
- Wes Craven - Fred the Janitor (uncredited)
- Lynn McRee - Maureen Prescott (uncredited)
Reviews
Adam Smith, Empire:
What director [Wes] Craven, creator of possibly the most distinguished kiddie mangler of shock-flick history, Freddy Krueger, does with the twitching corpse of the [slasher] genre is to turn it into a kind of chaotic post-modern pyjama party, with the imperilled teens constantly remarking on the similarities of what's going on to every slasher ever made…
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times:
Scream is self-deconstructing; it's like one of those cans that heats its own soup.
Adam Smith, Empire:
In less talented hands this could have been a lumpen disaster… Craven succeeds not only because of an intimate knowledge of the type of movie he created… but because of a capacity to leap with balletic deftness from exuberant in-jokery… to ball-retracting moments of terror.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times:
Writer Kevin Williamson, who clearly knows the genre inside out, and Craven succeed in keeping us guessing the identity of the killer and suspecting literally everyone, even Sidney, at one time or another.
Tom Charity, Time Out:
Craven throws in half a dozen of Hollywood's brightest hopefuls: [Neve] Campbell in the central role of the teenager haunted by the murder of her mother; [David] Arquette as a naive local deputy; [Courtney] Cox as a TV star; [Rose] McGowan as the doomed best friend; and [Skeet] Ulrich as the evocatively named Billy Loomis.