Scream (1996)

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If you've read any of my other reviews you know that I think that Wes Craven is a god. When I saw "Scream" in the movie theater it seemed like a horror comeback. Believe it or not it was originally in limited release until the response to the film was sold out midnight box offices. The actors were fresh eye candy and a new writer, Kevin Williamson, gave us a fresh take on the ole' slasher flick...rules to survive them.

Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) is making popcorn and waiting for her boyfriend to come over and watch a scary movie when the phone rings. Hence one of the films most iconic lines "What's your favorite scary movie?" Casey is tortured verbally by the mysterious caller who turns out has kidnapped her boyfriend who shortly gets gutted on the pool patio when Casey answers a question about horror trivia wrong. Just when you think Casey might get away from the killer who is dressed in a death hood and a ghost mask he stabs her from behind and hangs her dead body from a tree.

Title sequence! Gawd I'm a sucker for a good prologue.

We meet Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) getting ready for bed when her boy friend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) sneaks in her window for some "Raw Footage" and she quickly boots him out the window. Come to find out Sidney's mother Maureen was the victim of a brutal rape/murder exactly a year earlier. Sidney fingered the killer, Cotton Weary, who was sent to jail based on her testimony. With the news of Casey and Steve's murder out the media comes to town as everyone in the small town of Woodsborough has become a suspect. Trash media's ultimate ice queen Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) shows up on the scene. Turns ...

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