Scream
“Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.”
Wes CravenCast
Neve Campbell Courteney Cox David Arquette
Credits
Written by: Kevin Williamson
Plot
A small-town teenager and her friends are targeted by a masked killer who calls them on the phone and quizzes them on horror films.
Sinekatalog’s take
Wes Craven's slasher plays with the rules of horror films while still being scary. Sharp, funny and self-aware, it revived the genre in the 1990s and its phone-call opening is a classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (455,259 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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