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- 1996
- TV-14
- AMC Theatres
- 1 h 51 m
- 1996
- TV-14
- AMC Theatres
- 1 h 51 m
Summary After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) become the target of a masked killer. As the body count begins to rise, Sydney and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one. [Miram...
Directed By: Wes Craven
Written By: Kevin Williamson
- 1996
- TV-14
- AMC Theatres
- 1 h 51 m
- 1996
- TV-14
- AMC Theatres
- 1 h 51 m
Scream
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8.6
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Summary After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) become the target of a masked killer. As the body count begins to rise, Sydney and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one. [Miram...
Directed By: Wes Craven
Written By: Kevin Williamson
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
65
64% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
28% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
65
64% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
28% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Wes Craven continues to explore (and blur) the lines between reelity and reality with his latest, and perhaps best, cinematic slice of horror.
It's sensational in both senses of the word: a bravura, provocative sendup of horror pictures that's also scary and gruesome yet too swift-moving to lapse into morbidity.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 892 User Ratings
8.6
91% Positive
816 Ratings
816 Ratings
4% Mixed
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
5% Negative
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 892 User Ratings
8.6
91% Positive
816 Ratings
816 Ratings
4% Mixed
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
5% Negative
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
Scream was rated TV-14 on a channel, so I decided to watch it, and I think it's one of the best horror movies of all time.
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Craven is obviously having a ball here, and it's impossible not to sit back and go grinning into this dark, gory ride.
Compared with most of what passes for scary movies these days, this is golden: It's not stupid, it's not wussy and it pulls off a couple of pretty nasty jolts.
Just another basketcase with a blade.
Tiresome, blood-filled comedy.
An artificial and hypocritical effort to escape the artistic limitations of teenage slasher flicks.
Vor einem Jahr wurde Sidney Prescotts Mutter ermordt. Sie hat es immer noch nicht verarbeitet und ist sehr schüchtern und vorsichtig. Tage vor dem Jahrestag wird die Klassenkameradin Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) umgebracht. Nun wird jetzt auch Jagd auf sie gemacht.
Es ist das zweite Mal das ich Scream gesehen habe. Das erste Mal ist schon Jahre her. Trotzdem weiß ich noch wer der Mörder ist und das ist halt so bei solchen Art von Filmen, wenn man herausfinden muss wer der Killer ist. Scream ist beim zweiten Mal, trotzdem noch super und unterhaltend. Obwohl man weiß wer der Killer ist hat der Film immer noch genug zu bieten das man sich nicht langweilt. Man achtet immer bei den Tätern (die man beim zweiten mal schon kennt),wie man drauf kommen könnte wer es ist. Beim ersten Mal sehen habe ich eher überlegt wer der Mörder ist und viele Details übersehen. Die übersehenen Details kann man beim zweiten Mal gucken besser bemerken, weil man nicht die ganze Zeit nachdenkt, wer der Mörder ist. Der Film ist perfekt inszeniert und hat keine Lücken. Die Charaktere verhalten sich natürlich und die meisten sind sympatisch. Sindy und Dewey sind meine Lieblingscharaktere gefolgt von dem Nerd Randy. Für Filmfans ist der Film ein muss. Die Charaktere handeln so wie man so in einer Situation handeln würde und nicht so Klischeehaft wie in Horrorfilmen. Die Anfangsszene im Film ist perfekt und ikonisch. Dewie ist hier noch ziemlich nervös und unsicher was sich in den anderen Teilen verändert.
Die Metakommetare sind witzig, aber für einige könnten sie nervig sein.
Ein perfekter Film der einen der größten Filmcharaktere mit "Ghostface" geschaffen hat. Scream hat den Horrorfilmgenre stark verändert und hat ein perfektes Drehbuch, mit tollen Schauspielern. Einige Charaktere sind überdreht (Stu), aber solche Menschen gibt es auch im wahren Leben.
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Scream. What's your favorite horror movie? Wanting to revive the horror genre, which was almost never heard of, Wes Craven decided to create his own masked monster. As a result, the monster ("Ghostface") turned out to be very recognizable and maniacally frightening, but at the same time a little funny. In the film itself, apart from the final action, there is nothing memorable. The main characters are well thought out and the actors play them well, and the gore scenes in some places look even better than the Halloween franchise. Otherwise, "Scream" is quite a typical slasher film about teenagers with a very recognizable antagonist due to the appearance.
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A good parody of horror films?
This "horror" movie is set in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, and tells how the young Sidney Prescott, a year after the brutal murder of his mother, is pursued by a mysterious psychopathic killer, masked with black clothes and a mask that looks like something out of a Munch painting. Directed by Wes Craven (who became famous with the franchise "Nightmare on Elm Street"), has a script by Kevin Williamson and includes Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette in the lead roles, playing respectively the young Casey, the protagonist Sidney, an ambitious reporter called Gale Weathers and the sheriff's deputy, Dewey.
As audience, we are in doubt about what really is this film: if it is a mere horror movie then we are facing one of the worst: although some situational scares, the film does not scare anyone, on the contrary: the killer is bumbling, fumbling and spends at least half of the film playing with the phone and stumble around the stage. In turn, the victims are mostly young immature teenagers, so pathetic and mentally **** that we come to the point of delighting us with their deaths. There is no terror, just false terror, and there is no suspense, only false suspense.
If this movie isn't a horror movie but a teen film (perhaps one of the most indigestible film genres that exists), then they are on their favorite ground and I just wish, when they saw the sad end of the teenagers here, they decided to spend more lifetime devoting themselves to reading and developing their maturity.
Finally, if this isn't a teen or horror movie, it can only be a comedy that seeks to parody both genders. And, if this is true, then this is a great film, which made us laugh from start to finish and ridicules, in a funny way, both film genres. The dialogs of the adolescents, seeking to theorize the "formulas" of horror films and how to survive in a horror movie, are particularly funny. It's quite possible that it was the Wes Craven's intention with this film, instead of making a conventional horror film. May have been ...?
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Scream is a slasher horror/mystery film with everyone thinking who's the killer? Bits of humour are added and Scream was directed by Wes Craven in 1996 and it stars Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard and Henry Winkler who's Fonzy in Happy Days which was amusing to see him in this film. This film is more or less the same or similar concept to the Halloween films or Friday the 13th films, someone going round in a mask killing people but it's always with a knife and a ghostface mask. The horror parts don't work and Scream isn't scary or terrifying one bit and some of the humour is good but others fall flat as a pancake. Rose McGowan's character is likeable and Drew's but some of if not all the male characters are loud, annoying, dull or unlikeable and this feels more most of the time like a television comedy with blood more than a horror. Some of the male acting is overacted into moronic stupidity and way over the top and the cops are dumb with little if any logical intelligence so this films just laughable and embarrassing. Truly awful and the films boring too which is the biggest sin of any director or film maker.
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Production Company
Dimension Films,
Woods Entertainment
Release Date Dec 20, 1996
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline A new thriller from Wes Craven
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
