Post by FireStar on Apr 3, 2011 22:12:57 GMT -5
Scream is a 1996 slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. Scream is widely responsible for reinvigorating not only the slasher sub-genre of horror but horror itself during the middle 1990s.
The movie opens with one of the most impressive scenes of the slasher genre, complete with a Hitchockian Psycho fake out. Casey Becker is waiting for her boyfriend Steven to arrive for a night of horror movies when a mysterious caller begins taunting Casey. The calls start benignly enough being more along the line of a standard obscene phone call but the caller soon reveals a more sinister side when he suggests they 'play a game'. The object being for Casey to answer the question right or watch he boyfriend be gutted in her backyard. Unfortunately Casey answers the second question wrong and it spells the end for Steve, and Casey becomes the killer's next target. Too traumatized to answer his third question, the killer than breaks into the house and begins stalking her. Try as she might Casey is unable to escape and is stabbed multiple times and found by her parents hanging from a tree in the front yard.
The next day the murders are top of the news at Woodsboro High, where the news reaches the ears of Sidney Prescott. The campus is crawling with reporters, most notably Gale Weathers. This could not come at a worse time for Sidney, for just a year earlier her own mother was raped and murdered in her home. That night the killer contacts Sidney with the same threatening phone calls culminating in the killer attacking Sidney in her house. Fortunately Sidney manages to barricade herself in her room and call for help. The killer disappears and almost at the exact same moment Sidney's boyfriend Billy appears through her bedroom window. The timing is too much for Sidney and she accuses Billy of being the killer.
The next morning Billy is released on lack of evidence and confronts Sidney. That same day school is canceled as a safety measure and Stu, the boyfriend of Sidney's best friend decides its the perfect time to throw a party. During the party, Gale shows up on a hunch that something might happen during the party and decides to stick around, Billy and Sidney reconcile in Stu's parents bedroom and there is a particularly amusing scene where one of Sidney's friends, Randy, gives the rules for surviving a slasher movie. As the party goes on, a call is received at the house informing everyone that the principal has been killed and hung from the goalpost at the football field. Eager to see the carnage, nearly the entire party leaves. Leaving only Sidney, her best friend Tatum, Billy, Randy, and Stu in the house, with Gale hanging around in her van a little ways down the road.
Before long the killer makes his appearance and the final chase and the final reveal begins. This final chase differs from many in the slasher genre in that it is not straightforward and much of the information about the killer and his motivation is saved for the very final moments of the film.
The movie opens with one of the most impressive scenes of the slasher genre, complete with a Hitchockian Psycho fake out. Casey Becker is waiting for her boyfriend Steven to arrive for a night of horror movies when a mysterious caller begins taunting Casey. The calls start benignly enough being more along the line of a standard obscene phone call but the caller soon reveals a more sinister side when he suggests they 'play a game'. The object being for Casey to answer the question right or watch he boyfriend be gutted in her backyard. Unfortunately Casey answers the second question wrong and it spells the end for Steve, and Casey becomes the killer's next target. Too traumatized to answer his third question, the killer than breaks into the house and begins stalking her. Try as she might Casey is unable to escape and is stabbed multiple times and found by her parents hanging from a tree in the front yard.
The next day the murders are top of the news at Woodsboro High, where the news reaches the ears of Sidney Prescott. The campus is crawling with reporters, most notably Gale Weathers. This could not come at a worse time for Sidney, for just a year earlier her own mother was raped and murdered in her home. That night the killer contacts Sidney with the same threatening phone calls culminating in the killer attacking Sidney in her house. Fortunately Sidney manages to barricade herself in her room and call for help. The killer disappears and almost at the exact same moment Sidney's boyfriend Billy appears through her bedroom window. The timing is too much for Sidney and she accuses Billy of being the killer.
The next morning Billy is released on lack of evidence and confronts Sidney. That same day school is canceled as a safety measure and Stu, the boyfriend of Sidney's best friend decides its the perfect time to throw a party. During the party, Gale shows up on a hunch that something might happen during the party and decides to stick around, Billy and Sidney reconcile in Stu's parents bedroom and there is a particularly amusing scene where one of Sidney's friends, Randy, gives the rules for surviving a slasher movie. As the party goes on, a call is received at the house informing everyone that the principal has been killed and hung from the goalpost at the football field. Eager to see the carnage, nearly the entire party leaves. Leaving only Sidney, her best friend Tatum, Billy, Randy, and Stu in the house, with Gale hanging around in her van a little ways down the road.
Before long the killer makes his appearance and the final chase and the final reveal begins. This final chase differs from many in the slasher genre in that it is not straightforward and much of the information about the killer and his motivation is saved for the very final moments of the film.