Scream (1996 film)/Nightmare Fuel

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The fact that the "rope" may possibly be her guts just adds another layer of twisted

The movie is called Scream. Do you think that you're not gonna be screaming at some point during it?

  • The first fifteen minutes. Even knowing in advance that Casey and Steve are going to die, the buildup of tension, the progression of the phone calls from seemingly innocent to malicious, and the grisly ends met by both characters are enough to jar one out of their seat. Now, imagine seeing that in a theater in 1996, thinking that Drew Barrymore was going to be the Final Girl...
  • And speaking of Final Girls, the final confrontation between Sidney and the Ghostface killers, Billy and Stu.
  • The scene where Tatum goes to the garage to get beer. The door slowly creaks shut behind her and she turns around to see Ghostface standing right behind her. She flirts with him until he pulls out a knife and starts cutting her arm. She wrestles her arm free, fights him and then decides to try to escape through the garage door. Unfortunately, she gets stuck underneath the garage door. Ghostface makes the garage door open, crushing her head like a sponge ball.
  • The "Everybody's a suspect scene." Its scary enough that what Randy says could be the truth. But when Billy confronts him about it in the video store. As well as the fact that both he and Stu scare Randy into admitting what his motive was, if he was the killer. and this is before Billy and Stu were revealed as the killers.
  • Ghostface's murderous pursuit of women has uncomfortable rape undertones to it.
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