Scream (1996 film): Difference between revisions

* [[Sequel Snark]]: "No, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghost face! I wanna be in the sequel!"

* [[Shout-Out]]: A brief appearance by a janitor named Fred, who dresses like [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]] and is [[Creator Cameo|played by Wes Craven]].

* [[Take That]]: "And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board." To elaborate: when this movie was in production, scenes were to be filmed at Santa Rosa High School in northern California. [[Moral Guardians|The school board]], however, objected to the gory nature of the movie, and after a lot of small town political theatre, shooting for the school scenes was moved to a community center in the nearby town of Sonoma. In response, [[Wes Craven]] threw that phrase into the credits, right after the "special thanks" portion. The town of Santa Rosa, once a popular filming location, was essentially blacklisted from Hollywood as a result of the experience.

** To be fair to the people of Santa Rosa, there was also a strong element of [[Too Soon]] involved, with the community still recovering from the [[wikipedia:Murder of Polly Klaas|Polly Klaas murder]] in the nearby town of Petaluma. The killer's trial was even set to take place around the time that ''Scream'' began production. Wes Craven later admitted in the Biography Channel's ''Inside Story'' program that he understands now why the timing was just too uncomfortable to be acceptable.