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.
"Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder."
Top Billed Cast
Neve Campbell
Sidney
Skeet Ulrich
Billy
Rose McGowan
Tatum
Matthew Lillard
Stuart
David Arquette
Deputy Dewey
Courteney Cox
Gale Weathers
Jamie Kennedy
Randy
Drew Barrymore
Casey
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
T The Movie MobVerified TMDB Critic
2022-09-03
**Scream was the first of its kind that redefined horror with new rules, a meta plot, and rebellious unexpected twists.**
Scream followed all the rules and simultaneously broke them in a brilliant self-aware genre reinvention that leveraged every horror movie trope to set up and subvert every expectation. Scream is a love ballad to horror movie fans that intimately knows and zealously honors the legacy of terror-filled films that came before while creating something new, innovative, bold, and surprising. Scream’s dark humor and admiration of overused horror plot points resulted in one of ...
N NathanVerified TMDB Critic
2023-03-05
**_Scream delivered a breath of fresh air into the slasher franchise and holds up rather well nearly 30 years later._**
The plot of this film follows a cookie-cutter structure that models nearly all of the great slasher franchises of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but that is entirely the point. Scream is completely aware of the tropes of horror movies and utilizes them in a creative way by adding commentary and subtle comedy delivered by the characters throughout the film. It is not a full-fledged comedy by any means; there is no forced humor or jokes, but it is more of a dark comedy that...
