What's your favorite Scary Movie?
By SOPHIE OJDANIC
SNN Staff Writer
Looking for a fun horror movie to watch this Halloween? Scream (1996) may be perfect for you. It adds a bit of comedy and self-awareness to a scary and thrilling story.
It started off with a young teen, Casey Becker, waiting for her boyfriend to come over. She receives a phone call from the infamous ghostface killer. Her boyfriend is found, but he is not in the greatest situation. He is duct-taped to a patio chair in Becker’s backyard. After some horror movie trivia and a brief chase scene, the killer takes out his prey.
After the death of the series’ first two characters, Scream follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell, The Craft) through high school life, though there is a bit of a problem. A killer who has seen one too many horror flicks terrorizes the school while sporting a ghostface mask and is out to get Sidney and her friends. Prescott attempts to find the killer with the help of Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard, Scooby Doo), Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich, The Newton Boys), Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan, Charmed), Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy, Ghost Whisperer), Dewey Riley (David Arquette, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl), and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox, Friends).
The 1996 horror-slasher film runs for 111 minutes (1hr and 51min.) Scream is rated R, and was directed by the late-and-great Wes Craven, who directed other classics such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes and Last House on the Left. It made its in-theater premiere on Dec. 20, 1996.
Rotten Tomatoes rates the film a 78 percent and Metacritic rates it a 65 percent. I, however, would give the film a bit higher of a rating. Most viewers of the film nowadays claim the plot line is over-done. Just think about it, though.
Scream was one of the first films of its age to follow that plot line. Only after Scream did films really start to overuse the “teenage girl and her friends get chased by *insert killer here* at *insert scary setting here* until there is one lone survivor” formula.
This classic film also has a lot of quirky details; here are a few:
SNN Staff Writer
Looking for a fun horror movie to watch this Halloween? Scream (1996) may be perfect for you. It adds a bit of comedy and self-awareness to a scary and thrilling story.
It started off with a young teen, Casey Becker, waiting for her boyfriend to come over. She receives a phone call from the infamous ghostface killer. Her boyfriend is found, but he is not in the greatest situation. He is duct-taped to a patio chair in Becker’s backyard. After some horror movie trivia and a brief chase scene, the killer takes out his prey.
After the death of the series’ first two characters, Scream follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell, The Craft) through high school life, though there is a bit of a problem. A killer who has seen one too many horror flicks terrorizes the school while sporting a ghostface mask and is out to get Sidney and her friends. Prescott attempts to find the killer with the help of Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard, Scooby Doo), Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich, The Newton Boys), Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan, Charmed), Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy, Ghost Whisperer), Dewey Riley (David Arquette, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl), and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox, Friends).
The 1996 horror-slasher film runs for 111 minutes (1hr and 51min.) Scream is rated R, and was directed by the late-and-great Wes Craven, who directed other classics such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes and Last House on the Left. It made its in-theater premiere on Dec. 20, 1996.
Rotten Tomatoes rates the film a 78 percent and Metacritic rates it a 65 percent. I, however, would give the film a bit higher of a rating. Most viewers of the film nowadays claim the plot line is over-done. Just think about it, though.
Scream was one of the first films of its age to follow that plot line. Only after Scream did films really start to overuse the “teenage girl and her friends get chased by *insert killer here* at *insert scary setting here* until there is one lone survivor” formula.
This classic film also has a lot of quirky details; here are a few:
- Drew Barrymore was set to play Sidney, the main character, but called Wes Craven and told him that she wanted to be Casey, who was the second in the film to die. She wanted to do this to make the film less predictable. The studio had already made posters with her on it for the film, so they decided to keep it despite the change in casting.
- Billy Loomis is an homage to writer Kevin Williamson’s “favorite scary movie,” Halloween.
- Dewey was supposed to stay dead at the end of the original Scream movie. The crew found his character too likeable and decided to have him give a sign of life at the end of the movie.
- Matthew Lillard was talked to about reprising his role as Stu Macher to be the killer in Scream 3.
- Randy Meeks’ death in Scream 2 angered many fans of the series. Meeks was a fan favorite and many fans claimed that “Randy would have never done something as stupid as turn his back to a van while on the phone with a killer.”
- In the first Scream, Stu yells at Billy after being hit with the phone. Skeet Ulrich, who played Billy, was not supposed to hit Matthew Lillard, who played Stu, with the phone and this line was said from Lillard to Ulrich.
- The MPAA wanted to remove the line: “Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!” from Scream.
- Wes Craven did a cameo as “Fred the Janitor” in Scream. Fred is seen sporting clothes like those of Freddy Krueger. In fact, Craven wore the clothes used on set of Nightmare on Elm Street for his cameo.