Scream is a 1996 all-star cast horror film directed by Wes Craven from a screenplay by Kevin Williamson, and the first of the Scream series. Filmed mostly in Santa Rosa, California, the film tells the story of the fictional town Woodsboro, California being terrorized by a masked killer who enjoys tormenting his victims with phone calls and movie references. The killer's main target is Sidney Prescott , a teenage girl whose mother Maureen fell victim to a brutal murder one year earlier. The film takes on a "whodunit" mystery, with many of her friends and townspeople being fellow targets and... suspects. Scream revitalized the slasher film genre in the late 1990s, similar to the impact Halloween had on late 1970s film, by using a standard concept with a tongue-in-cheek approach that combined straightforward scares with dialogue that satirized slasher film conventions. High school students Casey Becker and her boyfriend Steve are brutally murdered by a killer who taunts them on the phone, using famous horror movie clichés.
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| Release date: | December 13, 1996 |
| Directed by: | Wes Craven |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Cathy Konrad, Cary Woods |
| Editor: | Patrick Lussier |
| Music by: | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography: | Mark Irwin |
| Screenplay by: | Kevin Williamson |
| Estimated budget: | $15,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |