A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the ‘rules’ of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
"Poised on the knife edge between parody and homage, Wes Craven's Scream is a deft, funny, shrewdly unsettling tribute to such slasher-exploitation thrillers as Terror Train, New Year's Evil, and Craven's own A Nightmare on Elm Street." - Entertainment Weekly
"A bravura, provocative sendup of horror pictures that's also scary and gruesome yet too swift-moving to lapse into morbidity." - LA Times
"Scream is a rarity: a horror movie spoof that succeeds almost as well at provoking scares as laughs." - Reelviews