Scream (1996 film): Difference between revisions

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Drew Barrymore only gets fifteen minutes of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|scream time]], but it's easily the most famous scene in the movie.

* [[Red Herring]]: Played with beautifully, {{spoiler|in that the red herrings aren't red herrings at all. The movie practically screams "This is the killer" whenever Billy's onscreen (a phone falling out of his pocket after a call from the killer, an unstable attitude, his tendency to show up only after someone is killed), and does it so much that everyone assumes this is the film trying to distract you from the real killer. The trickery is upped further when the apparent [[Red Herring]] is killed and everyone who's been paying attention will think "So obviously that means it was Sidney's father the whole time!" It then takes the usual horror denoument "The guy who was too obviously the killer was killed off, and the real killer turned out to be the person the [[Final Girl]] thought she could trust the most (her father)" in a very inventive direction by doubling back on itself: The [[Red Herring]] was the killer, his death was faked and there were actually TWO killers and the guy you thought you could trust was trustworthy after all!}}

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Casey.

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Tatum.}}