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Title: Scream (1996)
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Can you picture Molly Ringwald as Sidney Prescott? Or Ben Affleck as Billy Loomis? We go through all the young Hollywood stars who were almost cast in this horror classic.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Drew Barrymore | ... | Casey Becker | |
| Roger Jackson | ... | Phone Voice (voice) | |
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Kevin Patrick Walls | ... | Steve Orth |
| David Booth | ... | Casey's Father | |
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Carla Hatley | ... | Casey's Mother |
| Neve Campbell | ... | Sidney Prescott | |
| Skeet Ulrich | ... | Billy Loomis | |
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Lawrence Hecht | ... | Neil Prescott |
| Courteney Cox | ... | Gale Weathers | |
| W. Earl Brown | ... | Kenny Jones | |
| Rose McGowan | ... | Tatum Riley | |
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Lois Saunders | ... | Mrs. Tate |
| David Arquette | ... | Deputy Dewey | |
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Joseph Whipp | ... | Sheriff Burke |
| Matthew Lillard | ... | Stuart | |
A year after her mother's death, Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell), and her friends started experiencing some strange phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of many questions, the main one being: Whats your favorite scary movie? Along with many scary movie trivia, ending with bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the small town of Woodsboro. Written by Joss Oran
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I thoroughly enjoyed SCREAM. I haven't seen too many horror movies that struck me as great, especially since most of them are the same. I like THE SIXTH SENSE, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and SCREAM for the same reason, they are more original than the default horror flick.
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is still mourning the death of her mother, who died nearly one year ago. She seems very distant, even from her best friend Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) and her boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). She, and most everyone else, thought that the killer was already behind bars. But when people close to Sidney start to get killed, Sidney realizes the the killer is still at large. Deputy Dewey Riley (David Arquette) is there to protect Sidney and reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) is there to get the scoop.
I think the plot of this movie is very interesting and fun. The best part of it is that the killer does his murders in the style of horror movies. The rules of horror movies are often referred to and horror movies are even spoofed fairly often as well.
The actors do a very good job. Neve Campbell is excellent as the primary target/victim and main character of this movie. David Arquette does a fair job as the inexperienced cop (but not as good as in the sequel) and Courtney Cox does a great job as the bitch reporter. Drew Barrymore did very good in her very brief part as Casey Becker. Jamie Kennedy does an OK job as Randy Meeks, the movie expert (but again, not as good as in the sequel). Roger Jackson is the best possible choice for the phone voice and Henry Winkler had a great cameo.
The character development in this movie is good. You'll probably often yell "Look behind you, moron" or "Get out of the room, idiot" at your TV, which this movie is probably going for. Sidney is the most interesting character, with Dewey and and Gale at a close second.
I was surprised that I found Scream 2 to be even better than Scream was. But both are really good. Go out and buy them.