Fans of the genre can enjoy the way it plays with horror's conventions. Others can just chew their fingers in fright.
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09/21/07
Scream (1996)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:43
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A great mixed of bone chilling suspense and witty dialogues.
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: A hyper-intelligent serial killer preys on the teenage denizens of a small town, using their fascination with horror movie conventions to set up his diabolical doings. An intelligent, well-crafted... [More]
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore, Skeet Ulrich
Director: Wes Craven
Reviews for Scream
Top CriticAt last, a horror movie to shout about!
06/24/06
Top CriticClever, quick and bloody funny. 'Bloody' being the operative word.
01/01/00
Top CriticIf there's a problem with Scream it is that its very success dooms it to spawn a wave of cash-in imitations, few of which will exhibit their predecessors skill and intelligence.
01/01/00
It appeared to be clever, dangerous, witty, and fresh, but it sadly became victim to the movies it mocked, even before it had ended.
05/30/01
Top CriticIt's not stupid, it's not wussy and it pulls off a couple of pretty nasty jolts.
09/21/07
Top CriticA fun, scary and entertaining movie
01/25/05
Whatever you do, don't close your mind to such an inventive concoction. One last time, despite all your better instincts, go ahead -- open that theater door.
01/01/00
Strap in and enjoy the ride.
01/01/00
It's a... well... a scream.
01/01/00
The movie is less concerned with explaining motivations than it is with dismantling the social mechanisms which produce them.
01/01/00
Scream is so hip and irreverent that you almost forget it's a slasher movie. Almost.
01/01/00
It breaks new ground, and hopefully, it opens us up to new formulas and creative situations in these movies.
01/01/00
Its commercial success was well-justified.
09/04/03
A pointedly knowledgeable, frequently funny satire on slasher conventions and a terrifically scary, joyously suspenseful horror picture.
10/15/08
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01/01/00
Scream is a rarity: a horror movie spoof that succeeds almost as well at provoking scares as laughs.
01/01/00
a nineties-style teenage slasher movie with just enough tongue-in-cheek understanding of its own silliness to make it gruesomely fun without being insulting
02/27/01
The image of Barrymore on her portable phone, with her sweater sleeves draped over her palms, in the house with the big picture windows, has already become one of the great indelible images of the 1990's.
01/01/00
Craven has expressed a desire to get out of the horror business. Maybe that's why he's set out to make more than a horror movie. He's contributing to a long tradition of reflexive films, going back as far as the turn of the century.
01/01/00
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September 25, 2009:
Neve Campbell Returning for Scream 4? 
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June 09, 2009:
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