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Scream (1996)

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Scream (1996)	label	Scream (1996)
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Scream (1996)	comment	Scream is a 1996 slasher movie directed by Wes Craven, from a screenplay by Kevin Williamson. It is the first film in the Scream franchise.In the town of Woodsboro, two teenagers are gruesomely killed by a mysterious stranger wearing a white mask. A panic breaks out in the town, as the killer continues to target more and more people, displaying an affinity for horror movie tropes in staging his murders. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), who is still reeling from the death of her mother a year before, becomes the killer's primary target as "Ghostface" slowly wipes out her friends one by one. Meanwhile reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) investigates the killings with deputy sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette), convinced that the deaths are linked to Sidney's past.Rounding out the All-Star Cast of the film are Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, Henry Winkler, W. Earl Brown, Liev Schreiber, and Drew Barrymore, with Roger L. Jackson providing the voice of Ghostface. The massive success of the film quickly prompted a sequel, Scream 2, released less than a year later.For the 1981 movie by the same title, see Scream (1981). For the 2022 reboot/sequel to this film, see Scream (2022).
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Scream (1996) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Scream (1996) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The high school's janitor, who is seen in a two-second shot wearing a red-and-green sweater and is named "Fred", is played by Wes Craven himself.
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Scream (1996) / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Scream (1996) / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Stu prefers him and Billy to be referred to as psychotic, and Billy admits he's a psychopath when he reminds Sidney they had sex, which SHOULD mean Sidney now has to die.
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Scream (1996) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Scream (1996) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: The reason why saying "I'll be right back" ensures you won't be back to wherever you said it, according to Randy.
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Scream (1996) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Scream (1996) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Kevin Williamson was inspired to write Scream after watching a television special on serial killer Danny Rolling.
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Scream (1996) / int_165308f6	type	The Commandments
Scream (1996) / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: Randy lays out the rules to survive a horror movie: You can never have sex. (Though Sidney has sex with Billy and survives.) Never drink alcohol or do drugs. (Though Randy drinks beer and survives, as do most of the kids at the party.) Never, under any circumstances, say, "I'll be right back". (Though Gale says this and survives - however, it was an afterthought, since the line is obviously dubbed over something else). Stu also says this and turns out to be one of the killers.)
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Scream (1996) / int_173327f8	type	I Can See You
Scream (1996) / int_173327f8	comment	I Can See You: The opening scene initially plays out like a series of ordinary conversations with a very persistent phone caller, only for things to take a turn for the worse when Ghostface reveals that he's watching Casey.
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Scream (1996) / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Scream (1996) / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Due to the meta-nature of the film, many characters are knowledgeable about horror films and their usual clichÃ©s. Billy and Stu qualify, as they invoke horror movie tropes to trick and kill their victims and invoke some Whodunnit tropes to avoid suspicion by their potential victims and the police. Subverted in that they eventually decided to stab each other before trying to kill Sidney and her dad. Tatum during her death scene. She continually mocks the killer and the idea of the helpless female victim scenario, until he actually pulls a knife on her: Sidney also qualifies when she first talks to the killer. This leads to an Ironic Echo, where she is forced to run upstairs instead of outside when the killer attacks moments later. Randy as the Meta Guy is naturally this without trying. In the fountain sequence, he unintentionally guesses Stu is Ghostface and pokes holes in Stu's alibi by noting that Stu could have been with Tatum before or after killing Casey and Steve. In addition, he believes that Billy is the real killer and that Sidney's dad is the Red Herring.
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Scream (1996) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Scream (1996) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At one point, Stu exclaims, "It's a scream, baby!" Gale says that the killing spree all started with "a scream over 9-1-1." A subverted example: the original title of the movie was Scary Movie, and there are several lines that are clearly, knowing the context, meant to be title drops, but thanks to the changed name, no longer are.
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Scream (1996) / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Scream (1996) / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: The killer explains that his motive for wanting to kill Sidney is that her mother Maureen had an affair with the killer's father, which caused his parents to divorce and his own mother to run away. Which, obviously, is hardly something that Sidney can be held personally responsible for.
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Scream (1996) / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
Scream (1996) / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: Averted. Ghostfaces Billy and Stu openly admit that no matter if the victim answers a question right or wrong, they die, even though they said that Casey would live if she did. It makes it all the more surprising when Sidney assumes this trope in play and doesn't even contradict Billy's Motive Rant, specifically the part where Billy claims that her mother slept with his father which was the reason for his mother leaving. Given all the deception he commits throughout the movie to her and many others, it's a bit surprising that Sidney believed him so easily.
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Scream (1996) / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Scream (1996) / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: A high-pitched flute combined with trombone and timpani is heard when Ghostface kills Principal Himbry.
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Scream (1996) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Scream (1996) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Linda Blair cameos as the reporter who asks Sidney, "How does it feel to almost be brutally butchered?"
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Scream (1996) / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Scream (1996) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Casey so very much. First she is psychologically tortured, including having to see her boyfriend die when she gets a question wrong, then she gets her throat cut as she tries to escape, before finally being disemboweled. As if this weren't horrible enough, the killer then hangs her body up where her parents are sure to see. Caseyâ€™s boyfriend Steve doesnâ€™t have it much better. He is beaten, tied to a chair, and then stabbed and disemboweled all in front of Casey. Tatum is chased around the garage and when she tries to escape through the cat flap, Ghostface turns on the garage door, resulting in Tatum getting her head crushed against the rim of the door. Steve himself is disemboweled, and in the uncut version you can briefly see his intestines hanging from his abdomen.
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Scream (1996) / int_1ebbebc5	type	Source Music
Scream (1996) / int_1ebbebc5	comment	Source Music: Randy and some of the other party guests are watching Halloween, which allows the movie to borrow John Carpenter's soundtrack to set the mood for certain scenes.
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Scream (1996) / int_1f52ab08	type	Unreveal Angle
Scream (1996) / int_1f52ab08	comment	Unreveal Angle: Casey unmasks the killer, but the camera moves up before the viewer can see the killer's true face. We only see Casey's reaction when she opens her eyes. On rewatch, it's obvious that she recognizes the person behind it as Stu.
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Scream (1996) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Scream (1996) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Tatum says that the killer "could easily be female". Both killers turn out to be male, although all subsequent films (barring the third) have a female killer.
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Scream (1996) / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Scream (1996) / int_21f3e32e	comment	Dewey's gun is a more literal example. It first appears on Dewey's person due to Dewey's job as a cop and becomes important by the third act. There, Dewey takes it out when investigating Stu's house, but after he is incapacitated, Sidney uses it to threaten Stu and Randy, but unfortunately hands it off to Billy, who betrays her trust. Later, Gale steals it and pulls it on Billy and Stu to buy Sidney time to get away, and it then turns into a Chekhov's Boomerang when Gale manages to shoot Billy with it.
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Scream (1996) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Scream (1996) / int_222dc873	comment	After Randy questions the legitimacy of Stu's alibi, Stu is noticeably less cocky and denies murdering anyone, to which Billy has to reassure Stu that no one seriously accused Stu of anything. When the conversation becomes more comedic again, Stu threatens to gut Randy, which in hindsight, becomes less funny when one realizes that later on, Stu comes close to killing Randy while the latter is too busy watching Halloween.
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Scream (1996) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Scream (1996) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Billy is able to enter Sidney's house by climbing to her window. It is implied this is how Stu (as Ghostface) manages to enter the house to attack Sidney, as Billy later shows up at the same window, which is revealed to still be open. Sidney stops her dad from entering her room while Billy is there by opening the closet door, which blocks the bedroom door. Later, the same obstacle prevents Ghostface from entering Sidney's room after chasing her upstairs. When Sidney opens a closet in her house, creepy music plays despite the fact that no harm has come to Sidney. Later on, Ghostface uses the same closet as a hiding spot before he attacks Sidney. The 30 second delay on the tape gets Kenny the cameraman killed. Dewey's gun is a more literal example. It first appears on Dewey's person due to Dewey's job as a cop and becomes important by the third act. There, Dewey takes it out when investigating Stu's house, but after he is incapacitated, Sidney uses it to threaten Stu and Randy, but unfortunately hands it off to Billy, who betrays her trust. Later, Gale steals it and pulls it on Billy and Stu to buy Sidney time to get away, and it then turns into a Chekhov's Boomerang when Gale manages to shoot Billy with it.
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Scream (1996) / int_22d639e6	type	If It Bleeds, It Leads
Scream (1996) / int_22d639e6	comment	The fame-hungry news reporter Gale has a dubious interest in Sidney for most of the film and would have a pretty obvious motive as the killer: If It Bleeds, It Leads.
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Scream (1996) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Scream (1996) / int_237404cc	comment	Sidney also qualifies when she first talks to the killer. This leads to an Ironic Echo, where she is forced to run upstairs instead of outside when the killer attacks moments later.
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Scream (1996) / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Scream (1996) / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of slasher movies. Frustrated that the characters in a slasher flick never seem to make the right decisions or lose intelligence around the killer? Here, the main cast are Genre Savvy, but so is the killer, which only makes the film more intense as the characters make sound decisions and still get cut down. The ending also wonderfully plays with so many horror movie expectations that it could almost take up a page by itself. The killer isn't a deranged mutant or horribly maimed individual, but two relatively handsome and popular young white teens. There are two killers at play instead of just one. The climax of the film is one of the killers making a mistake instead of the main characters, which then allows the Final Girl to get the upper hand. She then takes the gimmicks of Ghostface and plays them against the villains to freak them out as their plans fall apart, and dresses as Ghostface one final time to hide in the darkness of a closet and stab the killer when he's distracted.
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Scream (1996) / int_24ddbe2b	type	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times
Scream (1996) / int_24ddbe2b	comment	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: Played for Drama. Casey angrily declares that she's seen Friday the 13th (1980) "20 goddamn times" when the killer says that she gave the wrong answer to the trivia question about it (with the stakes being the life of her boyfriend Steve). Unfortunately for Casey, Ghostface was only talking about the original film, where the killer was not Jason Voorhees, but his mother. Steve gets Gutted Like a Fish soon after.
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Scream (1996) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Scream (1996) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: There are several Shout-Outs to A Nightmare On Elm Street, which was also directed by Wes Craven. Casey comments that the first Nightmare film was great but its sequels were bad. Billy meets up with Sidney by climbing through her bedroom window in a scene reminiscent of Glen doing the same for Nancy. There is also the brief appearance of a janitor named Fred, who dresses like Freddy Krueger and is played by Wes Craven.
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Scream (1996) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Scream (1996) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In the video store, when Randy is telling Stu that "there's always some stupid, bullshit reason to kill your girlfriend", a woman behind him takes notice and decides to get away as he keeps getting more animated.
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Scream (1996) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Scream (1996) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded by Randy as he lays out the rules for surviving a horror movie.
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Scream (1996) / int_2a2ee484	type	Genre Relaunch
Scream (1996) / int_2a2ee484	comment	Genre Relaunch: This movie's popularity revitalized the slasher sub-genre, which had been flailing for the last several years. At the time of its release, very few slashers were being released at all, let alone in theaters. Scream gave the sub-genre a credibility with critics it had never really had before (even receiving praise from critics like Roger Ebert who were notoriously harsh on most slasher films), and its success led not only to sequels but also a trend of slasher films featuring self-aware humor regarding horror cliches that also got theatrical releases (not to mention tons of Direct to Video releases). There were eventually so many of these meta-slashers that eventually slasher films that played things more straight came back into vogue as well.
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Scream (1996) / int_2ad8a2a1	type	Deathly Unmasking
Scream (1996) / int_2ad8a2a1	comment	Deathly Unmasking: An inverted example; after having her throat slashed, as she slowly bleeds out, Casey takes off Ghostface's mask as she dies. The audience doesn't see the killer's face, but she does. (Her look of recognition implies that the Ghostface in question is probably Stu, her ex-boyfriend.)
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Scream (1996) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Scream (1996) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Billy and Stu.
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Scream (1996) / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Scream (1996) / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Dewey is 25 but Gale jokes that he looks like a teenager. David Arquette was indeed up for the role of Billy due to his youthful looks.
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Scream (1996) / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
Scream (1996) / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: Randy gets a little excitable talking to Stu about who the killer might be: "There's a formula to it! A VERY SIMPLE FORMULA! EVERYBODY'S A SUSPECT!"
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Scream (1996) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Scream (1996) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Tatum's death has shades of this. First, the song that plays before Tatum enters the garage is "Drop Dead Gorgeous". Second, Tatum upon entering the garage immediately activates the garage door for light, and the camera notably has a lingering shot on the garage door and its smaller cat flap.
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Scream (1996) / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Scream (1996) / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: The Red Herring teenager Billy turns out to be the killer all along, with fellow classmate Stu as his accomplice.
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Scream (1996) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Scream (1996) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Pay attention when Principal Himbry (Henry Winkler) searches his closet to see if anyone's hiding in there. One of the items hanging on the rack is a leather jacket, nodding to the famous outerwear of his Happy Days character Fonzie. He also fixes his hair in the mirror the same way.
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Scream (1996) / int_397569de	type	Time Marches On
Scream (1996) / int_397569de	comment	Time Marches On: The police question Billy because of a cell phone. "Everyone has one." While that answer was somewhat hyperbolic in the 1990s, it's certainly true now. Also, the use of cell phones created a new frightening obstacle: you cannot rule out a suspect because he or she was on the phone while the killings happened.
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Scream (1996) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Scream (1996) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: A subtle one. Sidney and Tatum, upon being eventually threatened by Ghostface for the first time, both initially assume it's Randy playing a joke on them. Considering that both girls are shown to be pretty smart, and they come to this conclusion completely independently of each other, it does raise the question, what kind of pranks has Randy pulled before? Well, this wouldn't be an actual trope. Randy is definitely known for his knowledge of horror movies, and plus, you have to remember they only believed it was Randy before shit got real in their respective situations. In addition to this, Scream is a whodunnit as well, so as Randy states explicitly, everyone IS a suspect. So, this dialogue is intentional, to make Randy look suspicious. Casey and Stu apparently had a brief relationship. Why they broke up and any other details about said relationship are a mystery, although it's implied that this is why Stu killed her.
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Scream (1996) / int_3d1fbeb3	type	Virgin Power
Scream (1996) / int_3d1fbeb3	comment	Virgin Power: Parodied by Randy when he survives.
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Scream (1996) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Scream (1996) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: When Stu, one of the killers, is dying in his kitchen, the first thought that comes to his mind concerns how angry his parents are gonna be with him when they find out what had happened. Never mind that he was just stabbed, has lost a lot of blood, and will be in trouble with the law if he manages to live.
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Scream (1996) / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
Scream (1996) / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: The line "Don't you blame the movies! Movies don't create psychos! Movies make psychos more creative!" is a dig at the people who blame violent media for the actions of crazed individuals. In fact, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson put said line into the movie after dealing with the Motion Picture Association, who were concerned that the violence in Scream would inspire Copycat Killers imitating the film.
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Scream (1996) / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Scream (1996) / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: When Sidney flashes Billy near the start, the camera only focuses on her back and Billy's amused reaction. Likewise when Sidney and Billy prepare to have sex, there are multiple cuts of Randy and the other partygoers watching Halloween (1978) and cheering when Lynda, one of the Halloween characters, goes topless. Eventually, Sidney goes topless herself, but Billy's back blocks her body from view. One of the female partygoers even makes fun of Randy and the other guys for enjoying the Fanservice in Halloween.
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Scream (1996) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Scream (1996) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: For a pre-Columbine movie, the film shows the aftermath of the deaths of two high school students fairly accurately. The school atmosphere is pretty low, there's grief counselors meeting with the students, and the principal has a no-tolerance policy when two pranksters run around in the mask the killer wore. Injuries dealt by a knife are incredibly painful, even if the wounds are non-lethal. Billy and Stu learn this the hard way when they try to give each other staged injuries to better establish Sidney's dad as the scapegoat. When it's Billy's turn to stab Stu again, Stu is extremely reluctant to give him the knife. And it turns out that even when deliberately trying to be non-lethal, it's easy to make a mistake, as Stu's injury has him bleeding out a few minutes later (he ends up dying from having a heavy TV pushed on his head while trying to attack Sydney, but that's probably adrenaline; he would likely have been dead or at least unconscious in a few minutes from blood loss).
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Scream (1996) / int_3fa77b51	type	Head Smashes Screen
Scream (1996) / int_3fa77b51	comment	Head Smashes Screen: Stu Macher has a big-screen television dropped on his face by Sidney, shooting sparks and electrocuting him to death.
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Scream (1996) / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Scream (1996) / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: How the killer (both of them) plans to kill Sidney.
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Scream (1996) / int_422cefe3	type	True Blue Femininity
Scream (1996) / int_422cefe3	comment	True Blue Femininity: Rose McGowan personally selected Tatum's blue pyjamas with clouds on them as a way of making her cuter and more likable. The character was written as a tomboy, but these wardrobe choices (along with the blue cardigan) made her more feminine.
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Scream (1996) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Scream (1996) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	A downplayed example would be Kenny the cameraman. When Gale and Sidney discuss whether or not Cotton Weary was indeed Maureen's murderer, the camera briefly does a close-up on Kenny as if to suggest that he is the culprit.
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Scream (1996) / int_42d7e070	type	Face-Revealing Turn
Scream (1996) / int_42d7e070	comment	Face-Revealing Turn: How the Ghostface killer's iconic mask is first shown.
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Scream (1996) / int_438e94fa	type	Never the Obvious Suspect
Scream (1996) / int_438e94fa	comment	Never the Obvious Suspect: The film loves playing with this trope. Billy is the obvious suspect early on, but the film also likes pointing to Sidney's dad as an obvious suspect as well, given how the police have trouble tracking him down after the start of the Woodsboro murders. The trope is played straight with Sidney's father but subverted with Billy. It is also played straight with Stu, but with the twist that he's only one of the two killers.
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Scream (1996) / int_43eb61dc	type	Villain Teleportation
Scream (1996) / int_43eb61dc	comment	In the opening scene, Ghostface seemingly teleports around Casey's house. On a first viewing, this seems to be the movie being sloppy and giving Ghostface Offscreen Teleportation powers, a common horror movie trope. However, on repeat viewings, one realizes this teleportation is realistically possible because there are two killers at the house, not one. Also relevant, Ghostface's final trivia question to Casey: "What door am I at?" "He" was at both doors. Similarly, the fact that the killer knows his way around Casey's house is an early sign that it's someone familiar to Casey, like Stu, her ex-boyfriend, is. Look carefully at Casey when she unmasks the killer. She opens her eyes and then starts visibly gasping. Also, Ghostface only kills her after she opens her eyes. A subtle hint that she recognizes who's killing her.
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Scream (1996) / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
Scream (1996) / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: Billy and Stu, as it happens. This is also true in later films but is less of a twist after this first film set the pattern.
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Scream (1996) / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
Scream (1996) / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: High school students in an upper-class suburban town begin turning up dead, and the killers are two of their classmates, born and raised in town, who have been planning this murder spree for the past year since they killed the protagonist's mother.
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Scream (1996) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Scream (1996) / int_469e3e2f	comment	That being said, this might not be intentional. You can see that the blade is clean in one shot, stained in the next shot, and then clean, before being stained again when Ghostface cleans it off, so the lack of In-Universe fake blood on the knife might be a production mistake.
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Scream (1996) / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
Scream (1996) / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: The catch phrase that Randy says saying is against the rules for surviving horror movies, "I'll be right back", is exactly four words long. And the fourth character to die is Tatum, who is the first of the main characters to bite it.
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Scream (1996) / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Scream (1996) / int_4733b5a5	comment	Another downplayed example would be Tatum. Early in the film, she argues that the killer could easily be female, which can come across as the killer Saying Too Much. Tatum was also conveniently late to pick up Sidney, was the last person to call Sidney before Ghostface did, showed up almost immediately after Sidney's attack, and wears black boots similar to the killer's the next day at school. The reason this is ultimately downplayed is because there are notable scenes in which the killer stalks/calls Sidney while Tatum is at Sidney's side, meaning it would be impossible for her to be the killer unless one suspects that there is more than one killer involved.
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Scream (1996) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Scream (1996) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Woodsboro is located in the California Wine Country where the movie was filmed, and the shots of the landscape around the town, especially at sunset, make sure that you remember that.
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Scream (1996) / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Scream (1996) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: After stabbing Billy with an umbrella, Sidney sticks her finger through the wound to gain the upper hand.
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Scream (1996) / int_4a2de52e	type	Cruel Cheerleader
Scream (1996) / int_4a2de52e	comment	Cruel Cheerleader: A cheerleader appears in the bathroom scene. As it fits with the trope of the bitchy cheerleader, she badmouths Sidney, who has just been attacked by the killer.
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Scream (1996) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Scream (1996) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Randy admits that if the Woodsboro murders were a movie, he would be the prime suspect. When Billy and Sidney reconcile in Stu's house, Billy says that life is just a movie. While the killer is approaching Randy, he's watching Halloween and is saying "Turn around, Jamie" to Jamie Lee Curtis. Randy is played by Jamie Kennedy.
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Scream (1996) / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Scream (1996) / int_4d044580	comment	Directly after Billy mocks Sidney for asking a motive of him, with him pointing out that several classic horror villains are scarier for not having one, he gives a shockingly personal Motive Rant to her out of nowhere. Even his accomplice Stu was stunned by this.
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Scream (1996) / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Scream (1996) / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Sidney drops a TV on the killer in the first film. It can be taken as Death by Irony, since the TV is showing Halloween and the killer, who was an obsessive fan of horror movies who wanted to live one out, is now all the way into one. She also uses an umbrella to attack.
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Scream (1996) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Scream (1996) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In the intro, the phone call starts off like a friendly (if awkward) chat between two strangers, until... The line that reveals Billy as the killer just before he shoots Randy (albeit non-fatally): The line that not only reveals Stu as the second killer, but combined with (and immediately following) the above line, reveals there are two killers. After Billy and Stu reveal themselves as the killers, Sidney tells them they will never get away with it. Billyâ€™s response? Directly after Billy mocks Sidney for asking a motive of him, with him pointing out that several classic horror villains are scarier for not having one, he gives a shockingly personal Motive Rant to her out of nowhere. Even his accomplice Stu was stunned by this.
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Scream (1996) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Scream (1996) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: This is the only Scream film that doesn't have a Cold Open as the Title Card shows up before the first scene. Throughout the film, there are scenes of Ghostface in costume stalking Sidney. Later films would do away with these types of scenes. This is also the only Scream film in which Ghostface reveals their identity to Sidney (and the audience) without any form of dramatic unmasking. Thus, the killer in the first movie never has their face visible while in costume whereas in the sequels, certain Ghostfaces may unmask themselves but still commit to wearing the costume's robes while fighting the protagonists. Likewise, The Reveal has a subtle structural difference. The sequels generally uncover the accomplice's identity first before revealing the leader's identity because the lead Ghostface is usually a major character that has a strong relationship with the protagonist, so their betrayal consequently has the necessary dramatic weight for a Wham Shot. However, the first movie operates differently as it plays on the audience's expectation that there is only one slasher villain under the mask when, in reality, there are two killers working together. Thus, while Sidney's boyfriend Billy is the lead Ghostface, he is revealed first because the real Plot Twist is that his best friend (and Sidney's mutual friend) Stu is also Ghostface.
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Scream (1996) / int_4ff0627a	type	Suspect Existence Failure
Scream (1996) / int_4ff0627a	comment	Suspect Existence Failure: Billy asks, soulfully, what he has to do to prove his innocence. A second later, the killer leaps into the room and stabs him. Because Scream never met a trope it didn't want to play with, it turns out Billy's the killer anyway. There were two killers and they engineered the whole thing to screw with Sidney.
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Scream (1996) / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Scream (1996) / int_5029c444	comment	Principal Himbry is another major suspect, at least for the first half of the film. His introductory scene has him touching Sidney a little too fondly, to the point that the Sheriff gives him a concerned look. In a later scene, Himbry threatens two prankster students with scissors, which showcases his violent nature. What helps in this misdirection is that the sounds that his scissors make are the same sounds made by Ghostface's knife.
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Scream (1996) / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Scream (1996) / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Lampshaded by Randy as he lays out the rules for surviving a horror movie. Subverted, however, by Sidney, who has sex (with the killer!) and still survives. The killer does die after he has sex, so... played straight?
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Scream (1996) / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Scream (1996) / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Sidney gets one in before finishing off Stu.
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Scream (1996) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Scream (1996) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The prank of dressing up as Ghostface was insensitive and the two definitely deserved to be disciplined for it, but Himbry undercuts his point a bit by ranting about how they deserve to be gutted like Casey and waving scissors around in their faces.
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Scream (1996) / int_5102055b	type	Attack the Injury
Scream (1996) / int_5102055b	comment	Attack the Injury: After stabbing Billy with the point of an umbrella, Sidney digs her finger into the open wound a bit later.
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Scream (1996) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Scream (1996) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: At one point in the climax, Gale flubs the chance to shoot Billy with the gun she stole from him and Stu since it had the safety on; Billy then knocks her unconscious and snarks to her body about the safety. Later, as Billy's about to kill Sidney, Gale successfully shoots him and remarks, "Guess I remembered the safety that time, you bastard." Shortly afterwards, as Gale, Randy and Sidney stand over Billy's body, Randy notes that in scary movies, this is the moment when the seemingly defeated killer returns for "one last scare." Billy does just that, and Sidney immediately answers him with a bullet between the eyes before saying, "Not in my movie."
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Scream (1996) / int_582f5a70	type	This Is the Part Where...
Scream (1996) / int_582f5a70	comment	Shortly afterwards, as Gale, Randy and Sidney stand over Billy's body, Randy notes that in scary movies, this is the moment when the seemingly defeated killer returns for "one last scare." Billy does just that, and Sidney immediately answers him with a bullet between the eyes before saying, "Not in my movie."
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Scream (1996) / int_588c0bf5	type	Whodunnit
Scream (1996) / int_588c0bf5	comment	Billy and Stu qualify, as they invoke horror movie tropes to trick and kill their victims and invoke some Whodunnit tropes to avoid suspicion by their potential victims and the police. Subverted in that they eventually decided to stab each other before trying to kill Sidney and her dad.
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Scream (1996) / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Scream (1996) / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Hearing your daughter's weakening cries for "Mom" through the phone as she is dragged to her death is horrifying for any parent. As is having it punctuated with seeing her body hanging from a tree, entrails hanging out.
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Scream (1996) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Scream (1996) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: You can clearly Sidney realizing that she has a chance to turn the tables when Billy and Stu foolishly turn their backs to her.
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Scream (1996) / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Scream (1996) / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: The voice on the phone suddenly raising his voice to Casey, screaming that he'd kill her if she hung up, instantly dispels the "prank caller" notion and sends her into terrified mode.
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Scream (1996) / int_5dbf364d	type	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
Scream (1996) / int_5dbf364d	comment	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Ghostface mentions to Sidney that her mother begged for her life.
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Scream (1996) / int_5f54a67b	type	Enter Stage Window
Scream (1996) / int_5f54a67b	comment	Enter Stage Window: Billy visits Sidney in this fashion two times.
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Scream (1996) / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Scream (1996) / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Casey Becker is the most famous example of this in the entire series as her actress is Drew Barrymore, who at the time was the biggest cast name in the movie. Originally, Barrymore was supposed to play Sidney, but she decided to take the minor role of Casey because no one expected Barrymore to portray a Decoy Protagonist who dies in the opening scene.
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Scream (1996) / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Scream (1996) / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Tatum Riley is Sidney's Best Friend, and the movie signifies that she is a reliable character by placing her at Sidney's side during crucial moments when Ghostface calls/stalks Sidney, essentially giving her a strong alibi and hence a strong argument that she isn't the killer. Her death in Act 3 raises the stakes as it leaves Sidney with no one left to trust.
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Scream (1996) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Scream (1996) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Combined with Freeze-Frame Bonus, as Billy is "killed," he turns to Sidney with blood all over his shirt, but behind him you can see Ghostface quickly tuck the clean blade of the knife into his hand, making a kind of squeezing motion. Sidney looks to the killer, who shows her the bloody knife before wiping the blade clean again. Stu was applying the fake blood to the knife while Sidney was distracted. Billy's bloody shirt also looks more fake than the realistic on-screen wounds of the actual victims. This turns out not to be a coincidence. That being said, this might not be intentional. You can see that the blade is clean in one shot, stained in the next shot, and then clean, before being stained again when Ghostface cleans it off, so the lack of In-Universe fake blood on the knife might be a production mistake.
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Scream (1996) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Scream (1996) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Gale Weathers may be rude and egotistical, but she was right about Cotton Weary being innocent and Sidney ignoring the facts to defend her mother. Billy was manipulating Sidney all along into sleeping with him, but he wasn't wrong that letting her mother's death ruin her fears of intimacy was an unhealthy way to live. Principal Himbry goes a bit overboard when dealing with the Ghostface pranksters by expelling them and then threatening them with scissors, but he is completely justified in being angry at them for the insensitive prank, especially considering Sidney, a student at that school, had just barely survived an encounter with Ghostface the previous night.
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Scream (1996) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Scream (1996) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Likewise, The Reveal has a subtle structural difference. The sequels generally uncover the accomplice's identity first before revealing the leader's identity because the lead Ghostface is usually a major character that has a strong relationship with the protagonist, so their betrayal consequently has the necessary dramatic weight for a Wham Shot. However, the first movie operates differently as it plays on the audience's expectation that there is only one slasher villain under the mask when, in reality, there are two killers working together. Thus, while Sidney's boyfriend Billy is the lead Ghostface, he is revealed first because the real Plot Twist is that his best friend (and Sidney's mutual friend) Stu is also Ghostface.
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Scream (1996) / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Scream (1996) / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Drew Barrymore was prominently featured in the marketing campaign for the film as she was a huge star at the time. However, she is the opening kill.
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Scream (1996) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Scream (1996) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: When Billy reveals himself as the killer, Sidney has the fortune to run into the tall and formidable Stu, who could protect her. She finds out seconds later, that he's been a willing accomplice all along and is now trapped with two murderers.
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Scream (1996) / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
Scream (1996) / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Played straight, then later subverted. Gale attempts to shoot Billy twice with the gun she stole from him and Stu; the first time, the gun has the safety on unbeknownst to her, enabling Billy to render her unconscious. The next time, Gale has it figured out and is able to mortally wound Billy with a gunshot.
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Scream (1996) / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Scream (1996) / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: A lady at the video store asks Randy about "the werewolf movie with E.T.'s mom in it". Drew Barrymore, who appeared in E.T., plays Casey Becker in this film. The references to Meg Ryan are retroactively this as of Scream (2022), which features her son Jack Quaid as Richie Kirsch.
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Scream (1996) / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Scream (1996) / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: How Kenny meets his end.
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Scream (1996) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Scream (1996) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Gale is speeding away to get help, but Sidney rushes in front of Gale's news van in a plea for help, causing Gale to swerve off the road, crash into a tree, and knock herself out.
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Scream (1996) / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Scream (1996) / int_8151ec48	comment	The identity of the killer is often something given to the audience fairly early into a slasher movie, with the focus more around the scares and gore than anything else. In Scream, the identity of the killer is a huge plot point, arguably to the point of being a Driving Question, which only serves to ratchet up the tension as the body count gets higher and the list of probable suspects gets even lower. This also works in the film's favor when one of the supposed victims turns out to be the killer, and it's revealed that two people are acting in tandem as Ghostface.
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Scream (1996) / int_8a58bb81	type	Meta Guy
Scream (1996) / int_8a58bb81	comment	Randy as the Meta Guy is naturally this without trying. In the fountain sequence, he unintentionally guesses Stu is Ghostface and pokes holes in Stu's alibi by noting that Stu could have been with Tatum before or after killing Casey and Steve. In addition, he believes that Billy is the real killer and that Sidney's dad is the Red Herring.
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Scream (1996) / int_8c5afdf0	type	Gutted Like a Fish
Scream (1996) / int_8c5afdf0	comment	Gutted Like a Fish: The Trope Namer. After Casey fails Ghostface's trivia question, the patio lights go out while her boyfriend Steve is eviscerated, coming back on just in time for Casey to see his intestines hanging out. Casey winds up getting the same treatment by the end of the scene.
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Scream (1996) / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Scream (1996) / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: After Sidney falls off the house's second floor, she spots Tatum's corpse in the garage door. When Gale tries to escape in her news van, Kenny's corpse slips down the windshield.
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Scream (1996) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Scream (1996) / int_933576c8	comment	Ghostface is yet another dime-a-dozen slasher movie villain, but his ingenuity and sheer persistence make him intimidating and throws off the audience. They're used to the killer being a slow-paced, lumbering Mighty Glacier, so Ghostface sprinting towards his targets with his knife brandished makes him way more frightening, to say nothing of the ways he can manipulate people into falling for his tricks.
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Scream (1996) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Scream (1996) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Both Ghostfaces undergo this after Sidney escapes and reveals the police are coming after them, using their own phone call mind games on them to add insult to injury. Billy throws a violent hissy fit and screams blue murder at Sidney, while Stu blubbers like a baby over what his parents will do to him.
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Scream (1996) / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Scream (1996) / int_978a82e6	comment	Also relevant, Ghostface's final trivia question to Casey: "What door am I at?" "He" was at both doors.
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Scream (1996) / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Scream (1996) / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In the opening scene, Ghostface seemingly teleports around Casey's house. On a first viewing, this seems to be the movie being sloppy and giving Ghostface Offscreen Teleportation powers, a common horror movie trope. However, on repeat viewings, one realizes this teleportation is realistically possible because there are two killers at the house, not one. Also relevant, Ghostface's final trivia question to Casey: "What door am I at?" "He" was at both doors. Similarly, the fact that the killer knows his way around Casey's house is an early sign that it's someone familiar to Casey, like Stu, her ex-boyfriend, is. Look carefully at Casey when she unmasks the killer. She opens her eyes and then starts visibly gasping. Also, Ghostface only kills her after she opens her eyes. A subtle hint that she recognizes who's killing her. On a first viewing, Billy sneaking into Sidney's house is a romantic gesture. On repeat viewings, the implication is darker, as Billy has just finished murdering Casey and Steve, and is only visiting Sidney to set up an alibi. Rewatching the fountain scene casts many of the characters' behavior in a new light: After Casey Becker gets killed, the five main characters sit around discussing her murder, and Stu starts to describe in graphic detail how one would go about gutting her, at which point Billy admonishes him to shut up. At first glance, you might think that Billy just thinks Stu is being rather tasteless, but in retrospect, Billy told him to shut up because he realized the fact that Stu knew so much about how to gut someone could in itself be a giveaway. Immediately afterwards, Sidney and Randy reveal that Stu used to date Casey, but Casey dumped him for Steve, which gives Stu a motive in killing the two, contradicting Stu's later explanation that peer pressure prompted him to murder multiple people. Then, Randy jokingly accuses Stu of murdering Casey and Steve. In response, Tatum states that Stu was at her house at the night of the murders, but Randy counters that Stu could have been at Tatum's house before or after the murders. On repeat viewings, one can infer that Stu was at Tatum's house after the murders since Billy arrived at Sidney's house after the murders as well. Most importantly, this scene shows how thorough Billy and Stu's plans were, as they visited their girlfriends after the murders to set up their alibis. After Randy questions the legitimacy of Stu's alibi, Stu is noticeably less cocky and denies murdering anyone, to which Billy has to reassure Stu that no one seriously accused Stu of anything. When the conversation becomes more comedic again, Stu threatens to gut Randy, which in hindsight, becomes less funny when one realizes that later on, Stu comes close to killing Randy while the latter is too busy watching Halloween. After Tatum's murder, Billy shows up wanting to talk with Sid. Notice the look he gives Stu, clearly signalling that he took care of business. For a first time viewer, it seems like Stu's mockingly declaring "I'll be right back!" just seconds after being warned not to by Randy is just another instance of many of Stu being a dumbass. On repeat viewings, we realize that the real reason for his confidence and prankish tone is because he knows he genuinely has nothing to fear from breaking any of Randy's rules, as he is one of the killers himself. Not only that, Randy even mentions he'll see him later with a kitchen knife. And where's Stu later, and what is he holding? Combined with Freeze-Frame Bonus, as Billy is "killed," he turns to Sidney with blood all over his shirt, but behind him you can see Ghostface quickly tuck the clean blade of the knife into his hand, making a kind of squeezing motion. Sidney looks to the killer, who shows her the bloody knife before wiping the blade clean again. Stu was applying the fake blood to the knife while Sidney was distracted. Billy's bloody shirt also looks more fake than the realistic on-screen wounds of the actual victims. This turns out not to be a coincidence. That being said, this might not be intentional. You can see that the blade is clean in one shot, stained in the next shot, and then clean, before being stained again when Ghostface cleans it off, so the lack of In-Universe fake blood on the knife might be a production mistake. The scene at the video store has a lot: Randy pegs Billy as the killer and Stu tries to dissuade him by saying he thinks Sidney's dad is guilty because he's gone missing. Randy responds by calling Stu a lapdog and suggesting that Sidney's dad is a Red Herring. On rewatch, Randy is entirely correct, both by calling Stu a lapdog (since he's Billy's accomplice) and about Sidney's dad being a misdirect (as Billy and Stu plan to frame him for their crimes). It's also apparent that Stu is trying to make Randy think Mr. Prescott is guilty in order to frame him and keep suspicion off of Billy. Stu asks what Billy's motivation would be if he were the killer. Randy: "There's always some stupid bullshit reason to kill your girlfriend." Stu's girlfriend Tatum ends up being their next victim, killed by Billy. When Billy and Stu gang up on Randy, he's sandwiched between the two killers. Notice that during the third-act bloodbath, Sidney acquires a gun and is left to wonder who she can still trust between Stu and Randy. Randy yells that they need to get the fuck out of there, while Stu claims that Randy killed Billy and Tatum and tries to get the gun from her, and never once says that they need to escape.
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Scream (1996) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Scream (1996) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: When Syd is brough in to talk to the police, Principal Himbry briefly alludes to who her her mother was. This is despite talking to Sheriff Burke, who clearly knows about the case, and Dewey, whose sister is Sydney's best friend. In fairness, Himbry does cut himself off, and may not have known how connected they were.
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Scream (1996) / int_984c1906	type	Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults
Scream (1996) / int_984c1906	comment	Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults: Sidney hears a cheerleader and her friend heavily criticizing her and her mother in the bathroom of the school.
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Scream (1996) / int_9aaad071	type	HA HA HAâ€”No
Scream (1996) / int_9aaad071	comment	HA HA HAâ€”No: When Randy asks Stu if he thinks Sidney would go out with him, Stu laughs and points at him in the most flamboyant way possible before putting on a deadly serious face and saying, "No. I don't. At all. No."
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Scream (1996) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Scream (1996) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Stu, who's planned his murders based on slasher movies, dies after having a TV set (with a scary movie playing, no less) dropped on his head.
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Scream (1996) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Scream (1996) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Casey sees Steve tied to the chair outside, he looks first to his right, then to his left. Because there's actually two killers, one standing on each side of him outside of Casey's view. When Casey's parents return home, they notice that the front door is slightly ajar. This hints at there being multiple killers because the killer Casey saw entered through the broken patio doors. In the beginning of the film when Billy and Sidney discuss their relationship, a cover of "Don't Fear the Reaper" is playing, which is rather fitting because Ghostface's costume in-universe is known as the Father Death costume. It happens pretty early on, but after Ghostface mysteriously disappears, Billy conveniently happens to be going in Sidney's window, and Dewey also finds the mask nearby. At this point in time, it was Stu as Ghostface, but the timing is impeccable and too convenient to not have been set up. Billy's talk with Sidney right after being jailed is rather pointed as well. "I was in jail, I couldn't have done it, remember?" Gale Weathers states that she thinks that Cotton Weary was framed for murdering Sidney's mother. Turns out she's right; Billy and Stu did it. In the video store, Randy correctly states that Billy is the top suspect and that Sidney's dad is the Red Herring. Not only that, he calls Stu a "little lapdog" when he's the accomplice to Billy's rampage. In addition, scary music plays when Billy and Stu gang up on Randy. Stu celebrates the closure of the school after the principal is murdered, though that was not the reason classes were postponed in the first place. Tatum admits to Sidney that the Slut-Shaming rumors about her mother go further back than Cotton Weary and that there was talk about other men. She even speculates that it might have been because Sidney's father was always out of town, or that she was just a very unhappy woman. She's proven right in two out of three. Her mother wasn't just having an affair with Cotton Weary, but Billy's father, which caused his parents' separation. The third movie proves that she was indeed a very unhappy woman. After the rules speech, Stu's mocking "I'll be right back!" and Randy's response "I'll see you in the kitchen, with a knife!" foreshadow that Stu is able to break Randy's rules for survival because he's a killer. And guess what he's holding in what room a short time later? An even smarter one with the same sentence. Stu was going to "be right back!" after he grabbed some beers from the garage. Given this was the location where Tatum was very recently killed, and that Stu didn't feel like her fresh corpse hanging from the doors was worthy of a mention, this foreshadows both that there is more than one killer, and that Stu is one of them. And finally: the fact that Stu says "I'll be right back!" not once but twice foreshadows that he's going to be pushing up daisies before the credits roll, albeit delayed somewhat. The serial killer has an obsession with horror movies, right? Billy, before the sex scene, compares Sidney's situation to The Silence of the Lambs, a horror movie which spawned the Psychological Thriller genre, and also says, "It's all just a movie." When Principal Himbry catches the pranksters wearing the Ghostface masks, he unmasks two kids. At one point, Stu grabs Tatum and puts her on his shoulder. Unable to escape, she has one arm over Stu's shoulder and her other arm trapped behind Stu's other shoulder, which is uncannily the same position Tatum is found in when she dies. Before Randy explains the "rules", he pauses Halloween (1978) at the exact point when Michael raises his knife to stab Bob. Throughout his explanation of the slasher rules, Randy stands in front of the television with Michael's knife pointed ominously at his back. This foreshadows a later scene in which Ghostface raises his knife to stab Randy in the back but stops midway through his attack, allowing Randy to survive. In an example that wouldn't be paid off until the fifth film, you can see Billy in a split-second clip talking with a couple of random girls in the video store. It's a very subtle hint that he's probably not a faithful boyfriend to Sidney. His activities with other girls is given payoff in the form of Sam Carpenter, his daughter who takes over as the protagonist of the series starting with the fifth film. Kenny complains about the thirty-second delay of Gale's camera after Gale finishes setting it up. Later, when Kenny spots Ghostface menacing Randy on camera, he gets out of the van to warn him, just in time to remember that the footage is on delay and that Ghostface's location is currently unknown. Shortly after, Ghostface appears out of nowhere and slits his throat.
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Scream (1996) / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Scream (1996) / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: When Billy and Sidney reconcile in Stu's house, Sidney says: "But this is life. This isn't a movie."
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Scream (1996) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Scream (1996) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: When Stu, one of the killers, is informed that the cops are on their way, rather than reacting negatively to that, or the fact that he's coughing up quite a lot of blood, he starts crying and says, "My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me!" You almost feel sorry for him. Almost. This was Billy's motivation for the murders. His father was having an affair with Sidney's mother, which caused Billy's mother to move out and abandon him.
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Scream (1996) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Scream (1996) / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Dementia 13: The shot of Casey being dragged across the grass is one. Suspiria (1977): Casey's death hanging from the tree is one to the hanging death.
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Scream (1996) / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
Scream (1996) / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Randy gets thrown backwards several feet by a gunshot courtesy of Billy.
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Scream (1996) / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Scream (1996) / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Drew Barrymore.
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Scream (1996) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Scream (1996) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: At the climax of the film, Billy and Stu leave Sidney alone in the kitchen to deal with Gale, giving her the opportunity to escape and ultimately kill them.
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Scream (1996) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Scream (1996) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Not only that, Randy even mentions he'll see him later with a kitchen knife. And where's Stu later, and what is he holding?
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Scream (1996) / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Scream (1996) / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Played with beautifully in the case of Billy, in that the red herrings aren't red herrings at all. The movie practically screams "this is the killer" whenever Billy's onscreen (a phone falling out of his pocket after a call from the killer, an unstable attitude, his tendency to show up only after someone is killed), and does it so much that everyone assumes this is the film trying to distract you from the real killer. The trickery is upped further when Sidney is taunted by Ghostface while Billy is being held by the police, and again when Billy is apparently killed. At this point, the viewer is led to think "so obviously that means it was Sidney's father the whole time!" It then takes the usual horror denouement of "the too-obvious red herring is killed off, and the real killer is the person the Final Girl thought she could trust the most (her father)" in a very inventive direction by doubling back on itself: the Red Herring was the killer, his death was faked, there were actually two killers, and the guy you thought you could trust was trustworthy after all! In addition, with the revelation that Stu and Billy are the killers, the other suspects, including Sidney's father, are the real red herrings of the movie.
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Scream (1996) / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Scream (1996) / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: At first, Billy admits to not having any particular motive for the killings, and claims to just be committing them for the fun of it. When pressed for a motive, however, he reveals that it's also revenge for Sidney's mother having an affair with his father and breaking up his parents' marriage. On the other hand, Stu appears to have been an outright example of this trope, although the film implies that Stu murdered Casey and Steve because Casey dumped him for Steve.
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Scream (1996) / int_afcc92c4	type	Self-Defense Ruse
Scream (1996) / int_afcc92c4	comment	Self-Defense Ruse: Billy and Stu's plan was to kill Sidney and her father, Neil, and claim that he had gone insane and killed everyone in a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit. Presumably, this relied on nobody being able to notice that Neil had been tied up in Stu's house for a day, and that the murders were actually committed by two people. It's also implied briefly towards the end that this is Billy's ultimate plan regarding Stu, as he stabbed Stu too deep with the knife (which Stu notices). It's possible, although not outright confirmed, that Billy was planning to frame Stu as Neil's partner.
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Scream (1996) / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
Scream (1996) / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: Examined. Sidney doesn't want to admit that her mother may have been having an affair, precisely because it would destroy her image as a Madonna. She also has to deal with other characters Slut-Shaming her, and it's implied her fear of intimacy is brought on by being ashamed of her mother's promiscuity.
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Scream (1996) / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Scream (1996) / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: When Ghostface attacks Sidney the first time, he slams her head on the floor to stun her.
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Scream (1996) / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
Scream (1996) / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: There is a famous bit where Sidney punches Gale in the face for annoying her by asking questions. In Sidney's defense, she was undoubtedly really scared and stressed about all that had happened.
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Scream (1996) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Scream (1996) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board." When this movie was in production, scenes were to be filmed at Santa Rosa High School in northern California. Days before filming was to begin, however, the school board raised objections to the gory nature of the movie since the community was still recovering from the Polly Klaas murder in the nearby town of Petaluma. After a lot of small town political theatre, shooting for the school scenes was moved to a community center in the nearby town of Sonoma. In response, Wes Craven threw that phrase into the credits, right after the "special thanks" portion. The city of Santa Rosa, once a popular filming location, was essentially blacklisted from Hollywood as a result of the experience. Wes Craven later admitted in the Biography Channel's Inside Story program that he understands now why the timing was just too uncomfortable to be acceptable.
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Scream (1996) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: The killer Billy Loomis pulls off an epic one near the end. While his partner yammers on about "watching a few movies, take a few notes", he merely stands there and silently starts smiling, until it's a full-on grin, heading into Technically a Smile territory. Interestingly, while all the other Ghostfaces pull off some form of Psychotic Smirk during the movie, Billy Loomis is the only one to really look like he's going to become Laughing Mad from revealing his plans. It sends a shiver down your spine.
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Scream (1996) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: When called by the killer, Sidney, who dislikes horror movies, badmouths them, saying they all just involve some eye candy girl who always runs upstairs instead of out the front door. When Ghostface attacks moments later, Sidney tries to run out the door but she's put the safety chain on it - so she has no choice but to run upstairs.
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Scream (1996) / int_c340ed70	comment	And You Thought It Was Real: When searching Stu's seemingly empty house, Dewey initially mistakes Laurie's screams from Halloween (1978) to be the cries of a real victim.
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Scream (1996) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: How Sidney finishes off Billy.
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Scream (1996) / int_c4454787	comment	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: Billy says this to Sidney right after the reveal to taunt her — speaking into the Ghostface voice changer, no less.
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Scream (1996) / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: When Sidney comes back home and calls Tatum, a womanâ€™s faint singing can be heard throughout the scene.
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Scream (1996) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Scream (1996) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: It has its own page.
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Scream (1996) / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Used when Randy and the other teens are watching a sex scene from Halloween (1978) and their commentary matches up with Sidney and Billy having sex upstairs.
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Scream (1996) / int_c9561e8b	type	Slashers Prefer Blondes
Scream (1996) / int_c9561e8b	comment	Slashers Prefer Blondes: Redheaded Drew Barrymore wore a blonde wig to play the film's opening victim Casey. Tatum, who is also blonde, dies, and her actress likewise is not a natural blonde. Both female survivors are brunette.
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Scream (1996) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Casey saying that all the sequels to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) sucked. This could also be seen as a Take That!, since Craven only directed the original and Wes Craven's New Nightmare (and only co-wrote Dream Warriors). He only decided to keep it in once its self-deprecating nature was pointed out; he apparently thought it was a bit mean-spirited at first.
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Scream (1996) / int_c972d624	comment	Tatum admits to Sidney that the Slut-Shaming rumors about her mother go further back than Cotton Weary and that there was talk about other men. She even speculates that it might have been because Sidney's father was always out of town, or that she was just a very unhappy woman. She's proven right in two out of three. Her mother wasn't just having an affair with Cotton Weary, but Billy's father, which caused his parents' separation. The third movie proves that she was indeed a very unhappy woman.
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Scream (1996) / int_cbd0ac32	type	Environmental Symbolism
Scream (1996) / int_cbd0ac32	comment	Environmental Symbolism: In the opening sequence, Casey's popcorn burns and expands as the scene gets more intense.
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Scream (1996) / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Scream (1996) / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: The principal expels two students for insensitivity because they were roaming the halls dressed as Ghostface the day after the real Ghostface killed two students. To really drive it in, he threatens to kill both for their actions AND hits BOTH with a Precision S Strike.
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Scream (1996) / int_ce389717	comment	Harassing Phone Call: In the opening scene, the killer calls Casey repeatedly before killing her. The next day, he calls Sidney repeatedly, too.
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Scream (1996) / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Scream (1996) / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: invoked Kevin Williamson wrote the script for Scream at a time when the slasher genre was largely discredited by poor sequels and tired clichÃ©s. Interestingly, while Scream reinvented the slasher genre by popularizing postmodern elements, most notably Genre Savvy characters who know and reference other horror movies, its whodunnit formula is reminiscent of early slashers like Black Christmas and Friday the 13th where the killer's identity was not revealed until the climax.
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Scream (1996) / int_d17d7135	type	Death by Genre Savviness
Scream (1996) / int_d17d7135	comment	Death by Genre Savviness: Almost happens to Sidney when she has the foresight to lock the front door after receiving a threatening phone call from Ghostface... only for it to turn out that he was already inside the house, meaning that she had just locked herself in with the killer. Unable to get the front door open in time, she winds up having to run upstairs to escape — exactly the move that she mocked as a cliche of Too Dumb to Live slasher victims only minutes before! Randy almost dies because Ghostface sneaks up behind him while he's watching Halloween and berating Laurie Strode to look behind her. Had Ghostface not been distracted by Sidney shouting outside, Randy almost surely would've been killed right there. The kicker is that he is played by Jamie Kennedy, and Laurie is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, so his calls of "Look behind you, Jamie!" work two ways. If Tatum stopped her rant about how obviously contrived her Alone with the Psycho situation was even a few seconds earlier to think, she might have been able to get the upper hand and escape.
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Scream (1996) / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
Scream (1996) / int_d4ba9971	comment	Billy and Stu's plan was to kill Sidney and her father, Neil, and claim that he had gone insane and killed everyone in a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit. Presumably, this relied on nobody being able to notice that Neil had been tied up in Stu's house for a day, and that the murders were actually committed by two people.
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Scream (1996) / int_d80fb43b	type	Murder Simulators
Scream (1996) / int_d80fb43b	comment	Murder Simulators: The killer states that violent movies "don't create psychos, they only make psychos more creative."
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Scream (1996) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Scream (1996) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Randy pegs Billy as the killer and Stu tries to dissuade him by saying he thinks Sidney's dad is guilty because he's gone missing. Randy responds by calling Stu a lapdog and suggesting that Sidney's dad is a Red Herring. On rewatch, Randy is entirely correct, both by calling Stu a lapdog (since he's Billy's accomplice) and about Sidney's dad being a misdirect (as Billy and Stu plan to frame him for their crimes). It's also apparent that Stu is trying to make Randy think Mr. Prescott is guilty in order to frame him and keep suspicion off of Billy.
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Scream (1996) / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Scream (1996) / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: When Tatum hears a noise in the empty garage, she turns just in time to see a startled cat scramble out the pet door.
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Scream (1996) / int_de6bd03e	type	Trashy True Crime
Scream (1996) / int_de6bd03e	comment	Trashy True Crime: Gale Weathers the Immoral Journalist is presented this way, as she had made her fame off covering Maureen Prescott's rape and murder in a way that suggests that Cotton, who Sidney believed, committed the murder, is actually innocent. She also follows Sidney (who is about seventeen at the start of the series) around, confronting her repeatedly and trying to mine her trauma for more content. However, this is also presented firmly as Jerkass Has a Point, as Gale is right that Cotton is wrongly accused. Though she and Cotton don't cover themselves in glory when they respond to being vindicated by stalking Sidney at college and trying to ambush her into an interview.
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Scream (1996) / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Scream (1996) / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Never drink alcohol or do drugs. (Though Randy drinks beer and survives, as do most of the kids at the party.)
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Scream (1996) / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
Scream (1996) / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Inverted. Wes Craven had to make many cuts to bring the MPAA's NC-17 rating down to an R.
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Scream (1996) / int_defd0c58	type	A Taste of Their Own Medicine
Scream (1996) / int_defd0c58	comment	A Taste of Their Own Medicine: During the climax, Sidney escapes and hides from Billy and Stu and uses their own phone call games to taunt them that the police are on their way. They don't take it well.
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Scream (1996) / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Scream (1996) / int_dfe687c9	comment	If Tatum stopped her rant about how obviously contrived her Alone with the Psycho situation was even a few seconds earlier to think, she might have been able to get the upper hand and escape.
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Scream (1996) / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
Scream (1996) / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: Sidney with Billy as the body count rises and she's hitting her breaking point.
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Scream (1996) / int_e1f4de4e	type	Common Knowledge
Scream (1996) / int_e1f4de4e	comment	Common Knowledge: In-Universe — during the opening trivia game, Casey states that Jason Voorhees is the killer in the original Friday the 13th and objects to being told that this is the wrong answer. However, Ghostface is quick to point out that despite Jason becoming the Breakout Character of his franchise, he didn't become the lead villain until the first sequel.
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Scream (1996) / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Scream (1996) / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Lampshaded. Billy is shot in the face immediately as he is getting up to do this.
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Scream (1996) / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
Scream (1996) / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: While the story carries a lot of Genre Deconstruction quirks, Scream functions as an attempt to revitalize the slasher movie genre by playing with particular tropes and making them frightening again. Ghostface is yet another dime-a-dozen slasher movie villain, but his ingenuity and sheer persistence make him intimidating and throws off the audience. They're used to the killer being a slow-paced, lumbering Mighty Glacier, so Ghostface sprinting towards his targets with his knife brandished makes him way more frightening, to say nothing of the ways he can manipulate people into falling for his tricks. The identity of the killer is often something given to the audience fairly early into a slasher movie, with the focus more around the scares and gore than anything else. In Scream, the identity of the killer is a huge plot point, arguably to the point of being a Driving Question, which only serves to ratchet up the tension as the body count gets higher and the list of probable suspects gets even lower. This also works in the film's favor when one of the supposed victims turns out to be the killer, and it's revealed that two people are acting in tandem as Ghostface.
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Scream (1996) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Scream (1996) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: By the killer, (both of them).
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Scream (1996) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Scream (1996) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Upon being revealed to be one of the killers, Billy is shown to be a deranged teenager who talks Stu into being his accomplice in terrorizing and murdering their friends. He also turns out to be a manipulative creep of a boyfriend as he gets Sidney to sleep with him, shortly before revealing he and Stu are the ones who murdered her mother. Not even Billy's issues with his mother and his family breaking apart garner him sympathy, as he's seen by the survivors, with nothing but disdain. Ironically the only one who still cares for him is his mother, as the second movie shows.
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Scream (1996) / int_eaa3f1a5	type	Helpless Window Death
Scream (1996) / int_eaa3f1a5	comment	Helpless Window Death: Casey watches helplessly through the windowed sliding doors as Ghostface kills Steve, who is tied up on the porch.
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Scream (1996) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Scream (1996) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: After giving her hell the entire movie, Gale ends up playing a decisive role in Sidney's ability to turn the tables on Billy and Stu after they reveal themselves to be the killers.
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Scream (1996) / int_efdc0552	type	Obvious Villain, Secret Villain
Scream (1996) / int_efdc0552	comment	Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: Exploited by Ghostface. Billy, Sidney's dark and brooding boyfriend, is set up to be the killer; he acts suspiciously and heâ€”gasp!â€”has a cell phone, which he reveals after Sidney's already got a harassing call from Ghostface. As it turns out, he is the killer, but, in what was a new twist for slashers at the time, there are two killers: Billy and his accomplice Stu, a funny class clown.
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Scream (1996) / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Scream (1996) / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Stu, who seemingly goes crazy following The Reveal.
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DimensionFilms	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Don't Tell Mama / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Dramatic Unmask / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Duct Tape for Everything / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	False Friend / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Floating Head Syndrome / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Forgotten Fallen Friend / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Graceful Ladies Like Purple / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Grievous Bottley Harm / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Gutted Like a Fish / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	HA HA HAâ€”No / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Hair-Contrast Duo / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Head Smashes Screen / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Help, I'm Stuck! / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Helpless Window Death / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Hollywood California / int_aa7d9eae
HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	I Can See You / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	If It Bleeds, It Leads / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Indecisive Parody / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Insistent Terminology / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Irony as She Is Cast / int_aa7d9eae
KDOCFirstNight	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Kensington Gore / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Life-or-Death Question / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Make Sure He's Dead / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Mask of Sanity / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Meta Twist / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Miles Gloriosus / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Moe / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Monster Misogyny / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Mortal Wound Reveal / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Motive Rant / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Murder Simulators / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Mutually Fictional / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Nature Abhors a Virgin / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	'90s Hair / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Not Quite Dead / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Not With the Safety On, You Won't / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Obvious Villain, Secret Villain / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Once is Not Enough / int_aa7d9eae
100 Scariest Movie Moments	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	One Phone Call / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Out of the Ghetto / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Postmodernism / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Practically Joker / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Preview Piggybacking / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Recurring Extra / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Reference Overdosed / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Relative Button / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Remember the New Guy? / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Revenge Myopia / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Rhetorical Question Blunder / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_aa7d9eae
RoseMcGowan	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Rule #1 / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Scapegoat Creator / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	School Stories / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Self-Defense Ruse / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Sequel Snark / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Sex Signals Death / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Shut Up, Scary Thing! / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Sins of Our Fathers / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Slashers Prefer Blondes / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Spanner in the Works / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Spot the Victim / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	SteadiCam / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Steven Ulysses Perhero / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Stunt Casting / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Suburban Gothic / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Suddenly Shouting / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Suspect Existence Failure / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	The Commandments / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	The Movie Buff / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	The Scourge of God / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	This Is Reality / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	This Is the Part Where... / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Town Girls / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Trashy True Crime / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Two Dun It / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Two Girls to a Team / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Undercrank / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Unreveal Angle / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Villainous Friendship / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Wag the Director / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Whole Costume Reference / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	Working Title / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	You Remind Me of X / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	You Watch Too Much X / int_aa7d9eae
Scream (1996)	hasFeature	You're Insane! / int_aa7d9eae
Dillon Dixon Band (Music)	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
KDOC First Night	seeAlso	Scream (1996)
The Stalker (Web Video)	seeAlso	Scream (1996)

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