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Scream

Wes Craven opened the cryptic horror gate and unearthed a horror masterpiece. Scream is not only a movie that will shock your nerves into perpetual immobility, but will have you fearing every sound you hear in your house, whether the lights are on, or your safe outside in the light of day. There is no escape from this movie and the horror will only keep intensifying, until it is unmasked at the end.

The movie starts out with Casey ( Drew Barrymore) getting a phone call which at first she thinks is a wrong number. But she is wrong, dead wrong! The phone call is just the start of an insanely disturbing plot to gruesomely murder her and her boyfriend. But this killer has a catch; he plays his victims, he coxes them into his own deranged world of horror movies by asking questions about certain movies before his kill happens.

Deputy Dewey ( David Arquette) is on the case to find the killer of the two teenagers. He's a funny kind of guy, not your typical hard-nose, crusty, tough guy with an attitude, type. He also gets embarrassed easily, especially by his sister Tatum ( Rose McGowan), but that is what makes him so real and adorably charming and interesting.

Not only are the cops on high traffic detail, but the high school is in chaos over the murders. Sydney ( Neve Campbell) is the one most effected by this crime since the one year anniversary of her mother's brutal murder is approaching. Another strike going against erasing any of the bad memories is tabloid reporter Gale Weathers ( Courtney Cox), who is salivating at the chance to get her hooks into this story and make headlines with it. She already has one book headed for the presses about Sidney's mother's murder trial and now Gale is looking for a sequel.

A close group of friends have their own bones to pick over who might be the murderer. Randy ( Jamie Kennedy) is the no-it-all horror fanatic who has all the secrets of how a successful murder should be played out and the tricks of how not to become a victim. Stuart( Matthew Lillard), the jerky loud mouth of the group, who also has his suspicions and likes to keep the group on edge about them.

Sidney now is getting those same crank calls and after escaping the masked freak, she wonders why it was so easy and thinks it might be her boyfriend Billy ( Skeet Ulrich), since he showed up at the same time the killer did and a cell phone fell out of his pocket. Billy is arrested and Sidney stays at Tatum's house, but Sidney got a phone call over there and it wasn't her father calling to check up on her, it was the killer! How could that be when Sidney thinks her boyfriend is the killer and is in jail?

Well Billy didn't make those calls after his cell phone records came out clean, so who did and why is this person after Sidney?

After Sidney is attacked on school grounds the school is no longer in session and is on a strict curfew. So what is the most logical thing for red-blooded high school students with no home work to do? Yep, throw a wild bash complete with horror movies! But what no one knows is another murder has just been committed and the principal ( Henry Winkler in a juicy little role) is the victim.

And with a party now going on, there is sure to be more blood shed, horror, and secrets revealed.

Scream is a mouth watering feast to consume, and will certainly be something you will do while watching this movie. Only you might be too afraid to even do that.

The entire cast was brilliant and intoxicating. To watch each of them, one could feel the excitement of their roles being played out. This is a scary and chilling movie loaded with a winning team of performers and outrageously witty and intelligent dialogue.

Hats off to Mr. Craven for bringing back the originality, suspense, comical relief, and yes the horror, into horror movies!

Written by: Lynda Dale MacLean

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