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.
Writing
Kevin Williamson's razor-sharp rules that rewrote horror forever.
Direction
Craven winking at his own Nightmare legacy while inventing new rules.
Acting
Campbell's Sidney: final girl evolution in real time.
Director
Wes Craven
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
'The Voice' (voice)
Kevin Patrick Walls
Steven Orth
David Booth
Casey's Father
Carla Hatley
Casey's Mother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scream single-handedly revived the dead slasher genre and made horror commercially viable again after years of direct-to-video obscurity.
The Ghostface mask was a cheap Halloween store find—Craven had to fight the studio to keep it instead of a custom design.
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