Scream ( film)
Scream is a 1996 horror film, directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. The film revitalized the slasher film genre in the mid 1990s, similar to what Halloween (1978) did in the 1970s, by using a standard concept with a tongue-in-cheek approach that successfully combined straightforward scares with dialogue that satirized slasher film conventions. The film features many teen idols of the time, including: Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, and David Arquette.
Scream became
a major commercial success upon its release, and was one of the highest grossing
films of 1996. It was also highly acclaimed by many critics worldwide, who appreciated
the film's tongue-in-cheek approach.
Cast
David Arquette - Deputy Dwight 'Dewey' Riley
Neve Campbell - Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox - Gale Weathers
Skeet Ulrich - Billy Loomis
Rose McGowan - Tatum Riley
Matthew Lillard - Stuart Macher
Jamie Kennedy - Randy Meeks
W. Earl Brown - Kenneth Jones
Drew Barrymore - Casey Becker
Joseph Whipp - Sheriff
Burke
Lawrence Hecht - Neil Prescott
Roger Jackson - Phone Voice (voice)
David Booth - Mr. Becker
Liev Schreiber
- Cotton Weary
Kevin Patrick Walls - Steven Orth
Track
listing
"Youth of America" - Birdbrain
"Whisper" -
Catherine
"Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"(Don't
Fear) The Reaper" - Gus
"Artificial World" [Interdimensional
Mix] - Julee Cruise
"Better Than Me" - Sister Machine Gun
"Whisper
to a Scream (Birds Fly)" - Soho
"First Cool Hive" - Moby
"Bitter
Pill" - The Connells
"School's Out" - The Last Hard Men
"Trouble
In Woodsboro"/"Sidney's Lament" - Marco Beltrami
Plot
In the film, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) attempts to cope with the anniversary of her mother's brutal rape and murder. Meanwhile, two teenagers at her school, Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) and her boyfriend Steve Orth (Kevin Patrick Walls) have been killed. The next night, while at home alone, the killer, who calls his/her victims on the phone and taunts them before attacking, invades her house and attempts to kill her. The killer is known as Ghostface, who wears a Halloween costume reminiscent of the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
Sidney tries to sort through the trauma of being attacked and, in reaction to circumstantial evidence, points an accusatory finger at her boyfriend Billy Loomis, played by Skeet Ulrich. She decides to stay at the home of her friend Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) and Tatum's brother Dwight, nicknamed Dewey (David Arquette), the deputy sheriff. While there, she receives a phone call from the killer. Billy is released, as he couldn't have placed the call from jail. Already under considerable stress, Sidney is forced to deal with the scandalization of her own attack by ambitious tabloid television newswoman Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox). Gale is responsible for a tell-all book revealing the promiscuous affair between Sidney's mother and her convicted killer, Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber). School is soon cancelled as a precautionary measure, leaving the building temporarily abandoned. Despite the closing, the school principal (Henry Winkler) is killed and Sidney encounters her attacker a second time, barely managing to escape. Unaware of their principal's fate, the teenagers plan a party. They are joined by Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy), a horror movie buff, and Tatum's boyfriend Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard), who suggested the party. The party quickly becomes a bloodbath as the killer murders Tatum, who dies when she becomes stuck inside an automatic garage door.
In the interim, Gale, sensing the potential for a major scoop, hides a video camera inside the house. She then goes outside and begins searching for anything suspicious, with the help of officer Dewey. Meanwhile, at the party, Billy shows up and is confronted by Sidney; they eventually head upstairs and Sidney loses her virginity to Billy. The partygoers soon receive word of the principal's death, and head to the school football field to find his corpse.
Back at the house, Billy is stabbed by the killer while getting dressed, forcing Sidney to run out of the room to escape the killer. Randy, watching television, narrowly avoids death when the killer walks up to him only to be interrupted by Sidney's screams. The killer leaves Randy and chases after Sidney instead. Inside Gale's news van, her cameraman Kenny (W. Earl Brown) witnesses the killer's attempts to murder Randy and then lets a running Sidney inside. Kenny steps outside the van to try and warn Randy, but has his throat slashed by the killer.
Dewey leaves the house, and falls down to reveal a knife in his back. Sidney runs back to the house where she is greeted by Randy and Stu, who are presented as the only remaining suspects. When they both accuse each other of being the killer, Sidney doesn't know who to trust, and she slams the door in their faces.
Billy comes falling down the stairs, not dead, but seriously injured. Sidney helps him up and gives him a gun for safety. Suddenly, Billy shoots Randy (non-fatally), and shows the blood on his chest is corn syrup (as used in the production of Carrie). Sidney turns and finds Stu, who unveils the voice-changing box.
Finally, the truth is revealed: The murders were planned and carried out by Billy and Stu, as a means for getting revenge on Sydney's mother; it is revealed that Sydney's mother had an affair with Billy's father and this was the reason for the demise of Billy's parents' marriage. It is also revealed that it was Billy who murdered Sidney's mother and not Cotton Weary, who was convicted of the murder based upon Sidney's testimony; Billy's rage over his parents splitting up because of the affair with Sidney's mother is his motive. Sidney is saved by Gale, however briefly, (she forgot about the gun's safety) until she is again knocked unconscious. Stu and Billy also reveal they have abducted Sydney's father and it was his cellphone they used to make their ominous phone calls, and that they planned to murder Sydney and her father, then stab each other in non-vital places to make it seem like they were victims of Mr. Prescott's emotional and murderous breakdown while getting away with committing the murders. Things begin to fall apart though; Billy stabs Stu too deeply and he begins to bleed profusely. Sidney then manages to escape while they're dealing with Gale, before she kills Stu in self defense. Billy is shot by Gale but comes back for one more scare. However, Sid shoots him in the head, finally killing him. Dewey is shown being carried away in a stretcher, alive.
The film ends at daybreak, with Gale making an impromptu report on the events of the previous night as the authorities finally arrive on the crime scene.
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