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{{quote|''Don't answer the door, don't leave the house, don't answer the phone, but most of all, don't [[Title Drop|SCREAM]].''|Tagline}}

In 1996, director [[Wes Craven]] (of ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' fame) and writer Kevin Williamson (who would go on to make ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' and ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'') decided to make a film to [[Genre Killer|end]] the [[Slasher Movie|slasher genre]] once and for all. A peaceful town in California turns into a bloodbath when a masked killer haunts the town. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a young teenage girl whose mother was killed a year before, becomes the target of the masked killer! Her boyfriend Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) becomes the main suspect, along with Sidney's father. Local tabloid news reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Woodsboro's Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley (David Arquette) investigate and try to figure out who the killer is and if it's the same person who killed Sid's mom the year before.

In 1996, director [[Wes Craven]] (of ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' fame) and writer [[Kevin Williamson]] (who would go on to make ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' and ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'') decided to make a film to [[Genre Killer|end]] the [[Slasher Movie|slasher genre]] once and for all. A peaceful town in California turns into a bloodbath when a masked killer haunts the town. Sidney Prescott ([[Neve Campbell]]), a young teenage girl whose mother was killed a year before, becomes the target of the masked killer! Her boyfriend Billy Loomis ([[Skeet Ulrich]]) becomes the main suspect, along with Sidney's father. Local tabloid news reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Woodsboro's Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley ([[David Arquette]]) investigate and try to figure out who the killer is and if it's the same person who killed Sid's mom the year before.

It ended up being a success, and doing the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do by giving new life to the slasher genre.