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Scream (Ws) |  | Artists: Campbell, Cox, Barrymore
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  596 reviews
Sales Rank: 10732
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 6304711875
UPC: 717951000019
EAN: 9786304711873
ASIN: 6304711875
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1996
Release Date: December 3, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson
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 These days you got to have a sequel ! February 18, 2000
Jamie Bouadana (Rhymney UK)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
The writing behind the film is excellent, the idea of teens imitating the movies with more twists than twister. An action packed slasher movie with mystery behind it all no imortal killer just messed up teenagers. It was impossible to guess who done the murders from the begining, you may think you know who is doing the killings then somthing happens and turns your eye to someone else. Overall a fantastic beginning to the best horror trilogy around. The DVD has a few interesting special features, go for this special edition rather than the standard DVD.
Fantastic Transfer of a Title That Never Even Got an Anamorphic Release Before January 9, 2010
Brian Adelstein (Los Angeles, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Fantastic transfer of SCREAM. DTS 5.1 track is excellent. Too bad this version has no extras, however, since Scream 4 is a time away, we probably won't get our fix of Scream on blu ray for the next year or two till it comes out. This will more than carry you over with great 1080p picture quality and DTS surround sound. This Australian release will play on your US player (Playstation 3, etc). Two thumbs way way up.
One of the best movies out there. July 5, 2001
DanD
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I admit that I didn't see this movie when it first came out, as I wasn't interested in it. But then I began to hear how popular it was--not to mention how cute all the actresses were--so I decided to give it a try. Reluctantly, at first. But I was hooked at the opening moment. We're talking a thriller filled with horror, suspense, action, and humor, combining it all into a great movie. Neve Cambell, David Arquette, and Courtney Cox are a great team, and make the sequels excellent, as well. Sydney Prescott (Cambell) is at the center of a series of gruesome murders. She is a young woman with several skeletons in her closet, the doors ready to be opened by reporter Gale Weathers (Cox) who is in town to cover the murders. Sydney's past and present collide when her boyfriend is the suspected killer, and yet the murders continue. Officer Dewey (Arquette), a not-so-hip cop who has a crush on Sydney, begins to fall in love with Weathers, and still the bodies pile up. Try to guess who dunnit, and then try to stay in your seat as the climax approaches. An engrossing thriller from the master of the genre, featuring a talented cast and an intriguing plot. Don't miss it!
Scary June 13, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Scream is an extremely scary movie, but when it isn't scary, it's funny, and that's what makes it so good. The story is Drew Barrrymore's character is murdered one night, so everyone at her school is being questioned by the police. Later that night, Sydney Prescott the main character is attacked by the killer, until her boyfriend Billy comes to rescue her. Sydney then notices that Billy has a cell phone[the killer called her first], which leads Sydney to believe that Billy is the killer. After this accident, Billy is sent to jail, but Sydney gets called again. After that happens, Sydney believes Billy isn't the murderer, and after what happened to Sydney, school is canceled, which leads up to a party that the killer is attending, so in turn, many deaths follow, making this a very scary movie.
My first slasher movie March 1, 2010
E. Maddox (Alexandria VA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I should mention that I do not watch slasher movies. I have never seen one. But I do watch Skeet Ulrich movies and that's how this one ended up in my DVD player (actually I watched it on my computer, I felt safer that way). First, this movie has some extraordinary acting in it. If you have to leave it because you can't stand gore, well you are in luck, the best acting I have ever seen done by Drew Barrymore starts off the movie in truly fine style. Her ancestors would be proud. Then who pops up but my favorite actor, Skeet Ulrich, as the heroine's well-mannered boyfriend. It can't get much better than that for me. I won't tell you where the movie goes, but I will tell you it was witty, it was fun, it was scary because it wanted to be, it had a lot of blood, some gore, but truth is I got through it fine because I think beneath everything this was a dark comedy. Do I want to see any more slasher movies? Probably not. But will I watch this one again, probably yes. After all, I like most of the cast, and some of the lines discussing horror movies actually made me laugh.
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