Starring: David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Lisa Beach, David Booth (II), W. Earl Brown Average Rating: Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC Label: Walt Disney Video Number of Items: 1 Release Date: December 02, 1997 Running Time: 110 minutes Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1996
Amazon.com essential video: With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson
Great Experience Got the movie in excellent condition. A little later than expected but Amazon took care of the confusion right away. Thanks Amazon
A mix scream has those quick jumping parts you now when you don't expect it some one pops in other than that its more of a comady than horror but i think the twisting of the plot and humor pull this all into a movie you can sit down and watch i enjoy watching over and over kinda like those movies you have laying around and pop in every now and then.
Another great trilogy. Scream started off by making fun of the other established horror franchises. It succeeded brilliantly. My favorite line in the movie? "What do you want?" "To see what your insides LOOK LIKE!!!". UUGH, terrible, but in a good way. A great script, fast and fun with great acting, a great cast and a super ending. Scream started out the new horror wave that was hip and cool. A must see for horror fans, I just wish they had come up with a better costume for the killer. He's just not very scary. Still........... Recommended.
Perfect Scary Movie! This movie is amazing! Terror, Comedy, Triller, and blood a lots! The first girl that is killer (Barrymore) is very very very incredible!!! This one have scary moments all time! Perfect
Scream Review Scream is a suspenseful slasher with fine score by Marco Beltrami. The dialog and acting are good. Unfortunately, the 2.35:1 widescreen DVD is NOT enhanced for 16:9 TVs, but the picture and sound are very good, though.
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