I saw this in the theatre, and what a lot of people today can't understand was how absolutely shocking it was to have Drew Barrymore killed off in the opening scene. She was one of the biggest actresses in the world, and when you saw her, you just assumed she was the main character.
@@mellysomethingclever OMG! That I did not know. Thank goodness he went with it because it was such an iconic opening sequence and one of the scariest movie death scenes of my childhood.
@@toastyyghost yeah they brought it up on one of those A&E behind the scenes docs on scream. I think it’s called the inside story. The whole episode is on RUclips still I’m pretty sure. It’s super interesting. What I love too is whenever Wes did something petty like that and they brought it up to him he’d be like “what? I didn’t do that.” And laugh. Like we know you’re petty ass did.
You forgot to add wes' connection. That he wrote nightmare on elm Street and by proxy, freddy krueger. I'm sure these guys probably figured that out but why not add it. This goes for everyone else that added who the janitor was.
Yep he has a cameo in the first three scream movies, and the janitor’s name was fred as well. Not many people know Wes co-wrote Nightmare On Elm Street 3
Yea, bawled over laughing at that. As a HUGE horror buff, i saw this as more of a comedy then anything else. Plus that eas Drew Berrymore as the blonde cooking popcorn in the beginning. Plus the autotune voice for ghostface is Brad Dourf. He was the voice of Chucky.
Some other facts: Back in 1996, it was very, very rare to have a cell phone so the fact that Billy had one made him very suspicious when it fell out of his pocket. Also when Randy is saying "Jamie, look behind you," there's an in-joke 'cause he's talking to Jamie Lee Curtis but the actor himself is named Jamie Kennedy.
I thought the same thing. Like, Tom and Shaun see a cell phone and think, "Oh, totally normal." But it was absolutely not the norm to have a cell back in the day. Especially not a highschool kid.
He is really underrated. He said in some interview he is got less roles because he is a tall weird looking guy, so he always got a side character role. I think he is quiet good looking guy anyway and he should deserve more big roles
Fun Facts: - So when Tatum said to Dewey that the janitor is your superior its true cause the janitor at the school that was dressed as Freddy Krueger was Wes Craven lol. - Billy AND Stu were at Casey's and used their girlfriends as Alibis for being out. Stu was on the patio with Steve while Billy was in the front tormenting her on the phone. The question about "Which door am I at" was a trick question. Stu ran to the front door to let Billy in. When her mom was hearing Casey breathing you hear one talking to another saying tree and the the phone ends. - Wes Craven lol to get his actors into character emotionally like Drew and Neve right before he start to film he would run up to them and tell them something sad like dead puppies and then run off and yell action lol. Drew's emotions were legit cause of Wes and for her love for animals lol. - They casted Skeet as Billy and gave him the same kind of hair style cause of how close he looked like to young Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street where he also climber through a bedroom window. - The news lady that was harassing Sidney "how does it feel to almost being butchered" that's Linda Blair from the Exorcist. - If look really closely when Billy was "stabbed" in the bedroom you can see Stu adding the fake blood onto the knife. - You were right about Casey's comment about Nightmare on Elm Street about how the first was good but the rest sucked. It's because Wes didn't direct all of the other ones lol. -Kenny actually saved Sidney in his literal final moment after his throat got slashed. He pointed to the back and told her door so she could crawl out. - Ghostface in the bathroom was a prank on Sidney it wasn't either Billy or Stu. - Rose (Tatum) was actually able to fit through the doggy door. They had to pin her shirt to the door cause she kept falling out. - When Billy hit Stu in the head with the phone it was a accident on Skeets part. The fake blood was so sticky and ended up hitting Matthew Lillard instead of the desk and that was a real reaction to it. Wes loved it so he kept it lol. Matthew also improved his lines with "Houston we have a problem" "the peer pressure" and the comment about his parents lol. - When Billy got stabbed with the umbrella the 2nd time it actually hit Skeet where he had heart surgery when he was younger that was also his real action to the pain. - Drew Barrymore was supposed to play Sidney. But she ended up changing her mind and went to Wes with a idea to have her as the open kill cause no one would expect it. Also would show if they could kill a huge star right off the bat it would mean NO ONE was safe. So Neve Campbell ended up playing Sidney which I'm really happy about cause she made that character her own. No one could play Sidney like she did. Just like how no one could have done Laurie on Halloween better than Jamie Lee Curtis. -Even though Billy was at sidneys for the attack. It was actually Stu who she fought with when he was tripping up the stairs you can hear ghostface saying "easy" "easy". The next day at the lockers he was checking his face in tatums mirror for any bruises and when Tatum was hitting him with her sucker he says "easy" "easy. -Billy was always 1 handed with his killing if he had a knife if didn't he resorts to choking except for Tatum he used the opportunity with the garage door. Stu uses both hands when using the knife and resorts to other tactics if doesn't have knife. -Stu was the one that called Dewey about the abandon car and also called Randy about the principal after the whole "I'll be right back". Billy killed the principal so they can use him as a deploy for later that night to get rest of the guests to leave so the real party can began with going after Sid.
There’s a funny double joke when Ghostface appears behind Randy while he’s watching “Halloween”. The actor who plays “Randy” is named Jamie Kennedy while he’s telling Jamie Lee Curtis character “Laurie” to “Turn around, Jamie. Look behind you” when Michael appeared. Also, have to watch “Carrie” for sure to catch that “pig blood” reference. Another horror classic.
Fun Facts: the janitor in the Freddy Krueger sweater was actually Wes Craven. Drew Barrymore was actually offered the role of Sidney but she thought it would really throw audiences for a loop if her character was 1 of the 1st to be killed. In the scene where the phone hit Stu, that was not scripted. Skeet Ulrich hit Matthew Lillard by accident and Matthew's reaction was genuine. Wes Craven thought it was so funny, he kept it in the movie. Also, the scene with Randy sitting on the couch, watching Halloween and saying "behind you Jamie" was a bit of a joke since the actor playing him was Jamie Kennedy. I love the Scream movies. I really hope you react to Scream 2. It's just as good as the first one.
"Behind you, Jamie!" Oh my God! He was literally talking to himself. I never caught that before. I just learned also that when Drew's character in the opening sequence hits Ghostface in the face with her phone, that's Wes in the mask.
@@chrishansen9731 That whole beginning sequence used to scare me a lot. But especially how it ends. Being so close to salvation and they just walk right by her, unable to hear her crying for help. It used to be a phobia of mine because of this movie that I would be assaulted or worse near witnesses only no one would see or hear, so no one would come to my rescue.
Drew wasn't just offered the part of Sidney. She was cast as Sidney. When they did the promotional material, she was playing Sid. It wasn't until 2 weeks before filming she said she'd rather play Casey.
The mask was actually a real Halloween costume accessory owned by Fun World before it was Ghostface. They found it and loved it but it was too expensive to license for themselves, so they had the FX crew make their own knock-off mask that they filmed two scenes with, which got Fun World to lower the price so they were able to use the original look for the rest of the film. So in the opening where they kill Drew's character they actually use two different looking masks, which you can see in the final cut of the movie if you look closely.
It wasn't too expensive. They just didn't know who owned it at first. So they tried to create their own version. When that didn't look right they decided to try and find who owned the rights. All Funworld asked for was their name in the credits. Definitely not too expensive. Lol
Fun Fact: When Neve Stabbed Skeet with the umbrella, the second stab actually injured him opening an open heart surgery wound he had when he was ten. craven liked the reaction so well he let it in
Here we go... 38 minutes of appreciating Tom's beauty while watching an incredible film. It was actually the first movie I rented from a VHS store when I was a kid in the 2000s.
22:25: Not only that but in this scene you’ll notice Randy watching Halloween and yelling at the screen, “Behind you Jamie. Look behind you”. He’s obviously talking to Laurie Strode, who’s played by Jamie Lee Curtis, but Randy’s actor is named Jamie Kennedy, so this is technically him telling himself to look behind himself.
This movie is also great on a second watch, trying to notice all the killer reveal clues or trying to figure out which one of the killers was ghostface in each scene is pretty fun. Once you notice the small details (like how Stu holds the knife in 2 hands while Billy holds the knife in one hand, and how Stu prefers slicing his victims, which is actually directly referenced in the fountain dialogue, while Billy prefers stabbing them, or how Stu is seen checking his head for bruises the day after Ghostface headbutts Sidney) the movie just gets brought to a higher level
'Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)' is one 'Nightmare on Elm St' sequel worth watching. It's by Wes Craven (as the title suggests) and is very 'meta'. Since, it's told from the perspective of the real life actors who starred in the original franchise. Definitely worth checking out, if you revisit the series.
Scream was the ultimate tribute/homage to slasher films that came before it, even as old as Psycho. It was released during Xmas season and was thought to initially be a flop but week after week it continued to make millions because of good word of mouth. Totally revitalized the genre. Excellent movie!
What I love with Sydney is her evolution through the movies... She starts as this weak innocent girl and becomes this strong woman who dares the killer to come at her. I love her so much !
The writing of this movie is memorable because all future slasher horror movies made after this one were influenced by it. It was the movie that deconstructed and broke all of slasher horror movies cliches and stereotypes. Slasher horror movies were becoming too predictable and were looking too much similar to each other and Scream definitely took a new and different path. The greatness of this movie was not only the breaking of slasher horror movies rules and stereotypes but also the concept of mixing reality with cinema fiction, about reality being reflected by cinema and cinema being reflected by reality. It's like one of the characters from Scream 2 says "It's a classic case of art imitating life imitating art...". That's why Sydney's boyfriend says to to her "it is a movie, it's all one great big movie" after she tells him "but this is life, it isn't a movie". It's not a random and whacky thing that he said out of nowhere, the movie made him say that on purpose. This movie poses quite a deep question, do horror and violent movies or just cinema in general makes some people who watch it violent or is cinema just a reflection of the violence in the world?! Wes Craven answers it with the words of Sydney's boyfriend who turned out to be the killer when he says to her "Don't blame the movies, movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!". Most of these concepts are brilliantly showcased in the scene where the friend of Sydney's boyfriend gets killed by that Tv on which John Carpenter's "Halloween" was shown. He was killed by the very same thing that prompted him to kill people in real life. Cinema which gets reflected in reality which gets reflected in cinema and so on. What I also love about that scene is how the music of "Hallowen" which comes out of the tv gets mixed with "Scream" soundtrack. That scene is just genius, just like the whole script. The macabre irony about the whole question that the movie poses of whether movies make people violent or are movies a reflection of the violence in the world is the fact that after Scream became popular there were a bunch of people who were inspired by the movie to commit some homicides and they were even in possession of Ghostface masks and costumes.
This movie truly needs context to really understand how and why it became iconic. If you weren't there at the time then you might not be able to understand it. The slasher movie genre was huge in the 80s. There were endless numbers of slasher villains that became icons during that time. Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Chucky, etc. But by the mid 90s the genre was almost totally dead. Too many bad sequels that took themselves too seriously. In the mid 90s after grunge music it became cool to be more detached and ironic about everything. The characters in all of these bad sequels all made terrible decisions and didn't act like real people. Scream really changed the game in so many ways. Now a days there are tons of shows and movies that are self referential and "meta" but when Scream came out there weren't many. It reinvented and reinvigorated the Slasher genre for a new generation. Throughout this movie, the kids talk like kids would speak at the time. They talk about horror movies from the past and pretty much know that they are "living" in one. At the time that was kind of unheard of. Then there is the opening scene. Drew Berrymore was by far the most famous person in the movie and that opening scene sets her up to be the lead of the movie and killing her off was totally shocking (in a nod to Janet Leigh is Psycho). I was 14 when it came out and i saw it 5 times in the theater. It blew my mind at that time. After the movie came out there were tons of imitators and a lot of the things that this movie did revolutionary at the time have now become overdone and clique at this point.
You’re so On point here! This movie changed everything for horror movies. I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend... you can named and it became after Scream
That Ghostface in the bathroom is actually a prankster. It's a common misconception that that's the actual killer. What I like is that they established that the killer's costume is easy to get your hands on, and there are kids in the school who are going around, pranking students. Also, if you look closely, he's not brandishing a knife. As for the killer in the grocery store briefly, I honestly have no idea.
that “i wanna know who i’m looking at” in the opening scene still ranks in my top 5 horror lines. is that first big “oh shit” moment in this epic film 😃
I think what makes Ghostface such a dangerous slasher/killer is the fact that there is multiple killers. And that Ghostface is almost always self aware of the horror genre and tropes. And lastly they're usually people you know or have an intimate relationship with. So a killer that knows you personally, self aware of it's own horror meta, and more than one is.... one scary killer.
The ghost face mask was actually an off-the-shelf one that was commonly available at any costume shop in the early 90s. My buddy wore one a year or two before this came out and we all made fun of how goofy it looked -- he wore it again a few years later and nobody was laughing then.
11:51 What you called the Peaky Blinders theme is actually a song called "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and was used famously in episodes of The X-Files in the 90's so its actually a pop culture reference of the time.
What made it a good horror film was the fact the the killer was your average guy. He wasn't a monster or an evil spirit. It made you doubt your own friends. You have to watch the rest of the series. I liked them all their was always some kind of twist in the end.
It's worth noting that the actress in the opening scene, Drew Barrymore, was already a major Hollywood star when this film came out in 1996. She was featured very prominently in the trailers and promotional posters leading up to the release as well, making it seem as if she was going to be the main heroine, so it was extra shocking to have her be killed off so brutally within the first 10 minutes of the film. Pretty brilliant way of pulling the rug from under the audiences feet and saying all bets are off for the rest of the movie.
Fun facts: They filmed this in my hometown, Santa Rosa, CA. My best friend is in the video store scene. My husband worked at the hotel that the cast and crew worked in. When Drew Barrymore wanted to borrow a bicycle to go for a ride, my husband lent her his and then wanted to buy a new seat so he could enshrine the one she sat on. 😂
That's cool. It's a beautiful area. One of my favorite drives ever is the small roads and highways in that area. My babysitter's family owned Stu's house at the time, and I remember her telling me about this weird movie with the cast of Party of Five in it (lol) she saw being filmed. Apparently they didn't think she should've been allowed on set. Lol.
@@savannahmedina2467 Yes, there's a funny story about a party Skeet Ulrich had in his room. My husband thought he was the drug dealer on set and was shocked to see him as the male lead! LOL
I saw this in the theater.... One thing that alot of people don't know is that when Scream came out it really had a huge following. There was alot of people talking about it and everyone who saw it was trying to tell their friends about it without revealing who the killer/killers are. It was #1 at the box office and was probably one of the last horror movies to have that kind of hysteria around it to this date. Maybe SAW comes close but not quite the same in terms of telling your friends...you HAVE to see Scream.
New generations think the First Scream film is going to be campy because of all the cheesy sequels. Then they watch the opening scene when Drew Barrymore’s character is brutally killed, hung with rope and her parents discovering her and they quickly realize Scream is the best horror movie ever.
Everyone thinks that's funny but in reality bloodloss will make your brain misfire So the lines about his mom and dad being mad, etc are his brain regressing because he's dying.
The janitor was actually played by Wes Craven and he was wearing the actual sweater used in A Nightmare on Elm St. Scream (and the whole franchise) is my favorite movie of all time.
A classic doesn’t have to do with age. The shining is a classic. The Twilight Zone(original), so many are classic. But there can be modern classic. Hence the phrase “instant classic”
The reason skeet ulrich screams so loudly when neve stabs him with the umbrella is because it hit an old scar on his chest, it wasn't acting, it was real pain
My absolute favourite bit is Randy saying "Look behind you Jamie" - talking about Jamie Lee Curtis but the actor playing Randy is Jamie Kennedy and it's like he is also talking to himself as Ghostface was behind him.
Fun bit of trivia: the original title of this film was "Scary Movie." It was changed at the last minute by Harvey Weinstein (the producer), leaving the title to be snatched up by the parody series.
Spoilers for anyone who hasn't watched the video yet. Two things: Matthew Lilard being hit with the phone was an accident. It slipped out of Skeet Ulrich's hand and smacked him, but he rolled with it. Also, one of the umbrella stabs was legit. Dude got impaled on the thing, because she missed the pad they had to protect him.
I could write a paper about how brilliant I think this film is, and how it's uniquely and thematically rich, especially for a slasher. Scream's relationships with sex and gender takes the subgenre's general proclivities and makes them explicit concerns and I think makes the film's subversive bones function for more than just upsetting expectations. It's a slasher that feels really socially violent in the ways that many other slashers only accidentally are. Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven definitely bake this in by design, and end up crafting an early and earnestly feminist slasher that doesn't fuck around. Billy and Stu are scary because I know those guys and basically went to school with a lot of boys that entitled, minus the knives and guns. Look around at who runs the world. Also, that third act. Also also, I think Williamson's ear for dialogue is, at its best, super distinct and memorable. Scream remains his best film script (though 2 is also very good and 4 is worth watching).
One other thing, I think this film takes trauma, both communal and personal (specifically generational trauma) surprisingly seriously. That through line continues effectively through Scream 2, though a lot else would change. Thanks for the video! It was a lot of fun!
22:25 this is a super meta moment. Jaime Kennedy is telling Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween to watch out while the killer is right behind Jaime Kennedy in Scream. Good stuff.
It's my favorite of the franchise. I got to be on set. When I was in high school, I used to sneak onto Agnes Scott College to get at the girls. It's an all-girl college and that's where they filmed the campus scenes. I got to meet some of the cast.
I’m really happy I came across this channel. As a horror movie junkie, I freaking LOVE seeing people’s reactions for the first time! The way these guys do it is perfect, too. There isn’t too much talking and the commentary is hilarious.
Don't know if you caught this but the actor that plays Randy his name is Jamie Kennedy and he's watching Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween. He's telling Jamie to turn around that he's right behind you all while Ghostface is also behind him where he also needs to turn around lol. It's little things like that truly makes Wes Craven an amazing director with how he puts the little things like that together.
Fun fact: Skeet wasn’t supposed to hit Lillard with the phone but the stuff they used for blood, which he assumes is corn syrup, made the phone stick to his hand as he went to throw it across the room and accidentally hit Lillard instead, and the line “you hit me with the phone, dick” was improvised.
The idea that the killer was someone close to you really was pretty novel at this point. It scared me. I think it’s held up pretty well. I still love it.
FYI in ‘96 not that many young people had cellphones. I was in college years later and only a few people had them (they really took off in the early 2000s... that’s why it was particularly suspicious for Billy to drop one).
Henry Winkler, the principal was not credited because he wanted the younger actors to get top credits. But at least he didn't do The Fonze in his office.
I remember seeing this in '96. The entire theatre exploded in laughter at 15:19 ... not only is it a joke on 'Freddy,' that's actually Wes Craven, himself XD
This movie is very much a tribute to Halloween, that's why they're watching it at the party. The guy playing the janitor, the nod to Freddy Krueger IS actually Wes Craven. If you guys are planning to watch Scream 2-4 then count me in! I've subbed to the channel and hope to see those in the future. Scream was my favorite horror series growing up, right next to Halloween. Oh! And Scream 5 is CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION!!
Fun Fact: That second time Billy is stabbed by Sidney with the umbrella, and then falls down? Yea, that was a real stab. Sid slightly missed her mark, and Billy didn't give her enough of that 'fake room' to use, so she did actually end up impaling him a bit. Obviously he didn't die or anything serious, but still.
I would say the thing that sets it apart from other slasher films is we don't know who the killer is. With Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th we know who the killer is and the killer stays the same no matter how many sequels there are. So Scream is not only a slasher but a murder mystery and I absolutely love a good whodunit.
The scene with the Principal and the mirror is an in-joke. The actor, Henry Winkler, played The Fonz in Happy Days. The credit sequence shows him checking himself in a mirror.
I know about the Happy Days and the Fonz, but it could’ve just been just something they wanted in the movie, and it just so happen to be a thing similar to Happy Days and the Fonz. If you remember the Fonz did the comb his hair thing a lot, even without the mirror.
"Fun" fact : at 26:02, Skeet Ulrich really got hit by the umbrella so we can see his legit reaction. Neve Campbell was supposed to target a protective pad on his chest but she missed.
Sad story. In an "homage" to this film, back in like 2006 two teenage boys in Idaho brought this story to life and murdered their 16 yr old classmate as she was home alone at night. They turned the power off and on. They moved throughout the noise making scary noises. Everything to psychologically torture the poor girl. They got caught because they had videotaped the murder(thankfully that footage was unreleased), and also their planning prior to, and their excitement after the slaughter. It's a fascinating study in sociopathy.
34:00 The soundtrack is great! During the first scene with Sidney and Billy in her room, the song in the background is Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult and if you watch Halloween the same song is playing in the car when Annie and Laurie are driving to their babysitting gig.
Scream revitalized the slasher horror genre with its sharp revisionist writing, a comedy spoof satire while being a genuinely scary movie in its own right.
Don't be afraid of the sequels. They may not top the original but they are all pretty solid. 3 will be the low point but surprisingly 4 (done after a 10 years gap) is still great.
The ghostface mask wasn't created for Scream, it already existed and when they found it, they absolutely loved it and had to have it. They tried multiple different drafts of other masks, but Ghostface was IT on sight.
What happened was they filmed the first scene and Bob Weinstein saw the dailies and watching the person in the mask turn around again and again was comical. When you see just one shot, it is scary but watching them wait to perform and then go back to their first mark, etc. -- it looked funny. So Bob said to film the killer in five different masks and they'd decide which one was best later. Wes Craven was so annoyed; he knew the movie wasn't scary as raw footage but would be if it was edited. So he worked overtime to edit the first cut and told Bob if he admitted the scene was good, that he'd leave Wes Craven alone for the rest of the shoot. Bob watched what we basically saw in the final edit and said, "Oh... well, what do I know about movies?" etc. and then didn't bug Wes again.
You know the first time I watched this, I always suspected Billy, so I wasn't surprised, but when Stu showed up I was floored, and then it all made sense somehow that Ghostface could be anywhere and everywhere and in my head at times, one of them would call while the other would seek out to kill. It blew my mind cause normally it's always one killer, seeing two was a complete shock. Love the Scream films.
Kevin Williamson wrote the story, originally titled Scary Movie, and based the plot loosely on the 1990 case of the Gainesville Ripper. It was a string of murders in a small town... Then it was changed to "Scream" cause the Ghostface costume was a close resemble to the 1893 Scream painting. The Ghostface costume was originally going to be all white but Wes said it was to much like the KKK so he did the black robe with white face.
25:55 That wasn’t scripted. The phone stuck to Skeet Ulrich’s hand because of all the fake blood which caused him to mistakingly throw it at Matthew Lillard. That, “Fucking hit me with the phone, dick” line is Lillard’s actual reaction.
I saw scream in 97 at 9 years old. To think that there are people who havent seen it....wow. Its such an amazing movie. The original VHS has extended scenes with more gore. None of the dvds ive seen have those. Way better with the original. I was very unlucky the first time I saw the movie, I saw the end before I saw everything else so I knew the killer situation before watching the entire movie. so it really spoiled everything for me. I have always lived vicariously through people who have never seen the movie. I have had watch parties at my house for people who I've never seen the movie. Unfortunately because so many people have seen scary movie, A lot of times it's spoiled so surprised at the end. Just because they seen scary movie. Which sucks. But I can't believe it's been so fucking long since since movie came out. I think a lot of people forget just how good this movie was. They take it for granted because of movies like saw and other gory films and so many of the suspenseful movies that have come out. But this movie really was a work of art. And it may have aged, but I think if people really take the time to watch it they will remember just how amazing it was.
One of my absolute favorite movies. Fun fact when Sid stabs billy with the umbrella she missed the protective pad and actually stabbed him. His reaction is real. And when Drew hits ghost face in the face with the phone in the beginning, it was actually Wes craven wearing the mask. Also when Tatum is trying to escape through the cat flap she could actually fit through it, they had to mail her shirt to the frame of the cat flap. In Stus attic when she escapes out the window if you look again theres dolls hanging by their necks by rope
I love how people have not watched this and are like “oh, it’s the Peaky blinders theme song.” I started watching Peaky Blinders and was like oh, it’s the song from Scream! 🤣 I stumbled onto this video! Great reaction. Scream is and always will be one of my favs. I rewatch it every Halloween 👻
I think its annoying that a poor imitation of Boardwalk empire cant just get a better theme tune than one ripped off from a famous movie that was also taken from a song by Nick Cave
The attention to detail in this film are crazy; you can hear duct tape when you see the swing at the start (tying up the boyfriend), hear Billy yell “hey!” to Stu over the phone as the mom is listening. At 7:52, the music picks up because Stu is hiding the closet. Also, when Ghostface holds the knife with two hands it’s Stu, when it’s a one arm stab it’s Billy. Plus, the dad is seen wearing same outfit at the start as at the end, which means after leaving Sid’s room is when Billy kidnapped him. At 18:48, Billy’s look at Stu is to indicate Tatum was taken care of.
And you hear Stu's voice saying "easy" as Sidney is chased up the stairs. The next day at school (when he checks his forehead for a bump) he says the same thing.
Go back and watch when Billy comes into Sidneys room at the beginning and listen to the song playing in the background. Now that you know he's the killer it makes so much sense.
Scream is groundbreaking, especially for its time, it completely changed the horror genre. If you were a horror movie coming out in the late 90s/2000s, you pretty much were trying to be like Scream with "self awareness" and snarky "hip" dialogue. It created an entirely new status quo.
I saw this in the theatre, and what a lot of people today can't understand was how absolutely shocking it was to have Drew Barrymore killed off in the opening scene. She was one of the biggest actresses in the world, and when you saw her, you just assumed she was the main character.
I think that's how they marketed the movie too. She was made out to be a big deal so that her death hit that much harder. 🤭
@@toastyyghost it was actually Drew’s idea to be killed off in the opening. Wes almost walked off the film because of it.
But she convinced him.
@@mellysomethingclever OMG! That I did not know. Thank goodness he went with it because it was such an iconic opening sequence and one of the scariest movie death scenes of my childhood.
@@toastyyghost yeah they brought it up on one of those A&E behind the scenes docs on scream. I think it’s called the inside story. The whole episode is on RUclips still I’m pretty sure. It’s super interesting. What I love too is whenever Wes did something petty like that and they brought it up to him he’d be like “what? I didn’t do that.” And laugh. Like we know you’re petty ass did.
@@mellysomethingclever LMAO "I didn't do that" sure, Jan. Thanks, I'll have to look it up!
I hope no one already pointed this out but the janitor was Wes Craven dressed like Fred Krueger lol. Such an awesome cameo.
You forgot to add wes' connection. That he wrote nightmare on elm Street and by proxy, freddy krueger. I'm sure these guys probably figured that out but why not add it. This goes for everyone else that added who the janitor was.
Yep he has a cameo in the first three scream movies, and the janitor’s name was fred as well. Not many people know Wes co-wrote Nightmare On Elm Street 3
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Yea, bawled over laughing at that. As a HUGE horror buff, i saw this as more of a comedy then anything else. Plus that eas Drew Berrymore as the blonde cooking popcorn in the beginning. Plus the autotune voice for ghostface is Brad Dourf. He was the voice of Chucky.
@@angelastumbaugh2870 The voice of Ghostface is Roger L Jackson, and it's his actual voice.
Billy hitting Stu with the phone was an accident. The phone slipped outta his hand cause of the fake blood. Stu’s reaction was his actual response.
What?! That's awesome! Never knew that.
Yeah an basically stu improvised most of his lines in the movie
Really? 😂 That’s amazing!
That’s awesome. That’s the line I quote most often from this movie.
That’s awesome
Some other facts: Back in 1996, it was very, very rare to have a cell phone so the fact that Billy had one made him very suspicious when it fell out of his pocket. Also when Randy is saying "Jamie, look behind you," there's an in-joke 'cause he's talking to Jamie Lee Curtis but the actor himself is named Jamie Kennedy.
I thought the same thing. Like, Tom and Shaun see a cell phone and think, "Oh, totally normal." But it was absolutely not the norm to have a cell back in the day. Especially not a highschool kid.
Jamie Kennedy sat on the couch saying “Behind you Jamie”
Pure genius.
I actually love Jamie Kennedy. Always have. He's underrated, in my opinion.
The whole script is genius
Matthew Lillard is such an underrated actor, I love his role in this film even as a killer lol. He's also great in thirteen ghosts..
And "Twin Peaks: The Return"! He's outstanding as William Hastings!
He is really underrated. He said in some interview he is got less roles because he is a tall weird looking guy, so he always got a side character role. I think he is quiet good looking guy anyway and he should deserve more big roles
Agree. He's so underrated. I loved him so much in this role. He also made the perfect live action Shaggy.
Try ‘Deadman’s Curve’ aka ‘The Curve’ for prime Lillard!
Yeah he gets a little annoying. But definitely has something
I was genuinely sad Tatum died, she was a great friend and one of the few that had Sidney's best intentions at heart.
Fun Facts:
- So when Tatum said to Dewey that the janitor is your superior its true cause the janitor at the school that was dressed as Freddy Krueger was Wes Craven lol.
- Billy AND Stu were at Casey's and used their girlfriends as Alibis for being out. Stu was on the patio with Steve while Billy was in the front tormenting her on the phone. The question about "Which door am I at" was a trick question. Stu ran to the front door to let Billy in. When her mom was hearing Casey breathing you hear one talking to another saying tree and the the phone ends.
- Wes Craven lol to get his actors into character emotionally like Drew and Neve right before he start to film he would run up to them and tell them something sad like dead puppies and then run off and yell action lol. Drew's emotions were legit cause of Wes and for her love for animals lol.
- They casted Skeet as Billy and gave him the same kind of hair style cause of how close he looked like to young Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street where he also climber through a bedroom window.
- The news lady that was harassing Sidney "how does it feel to almost being butchered" that's Linda Blair from the Exorcist.
- If look really closely when Billy was "stabbed" in the bedroom you can see Stu adding the fake blood onto the knife.
- You were right about Casey's comment about Nightmare on Elm Street about how the first was good but the rest sucked. It's because Wes didn't direct all of the other ones lol.
-Kenny actually saved Sidney in his literal final moment after his throat got slashed. He pointed to the back and told her door so she could crawl out.
- Ghostface in the bathroom was a prank on Sidney it wasn't either Billy or Stu.
- Rose (Tatum) was actually able to fit through the doggy door. They had to pin her shirt to the door cause she kept falling out.
- When Billy hit Stu in the head with the phone it was a accident on Skeets part. The fake blood was so sticky and ended up hitting Matthew Lillard instead of the desk and that was a real reaction to it. Wes loved it so he kept it lol. Matthew also improved his lines with "Houston we have a problem" "the peer pressure" and the comment about his parents lol.
- When Billy got stabbed with the umbrella the 2nd time it actually hit Skeet where he had heart surgery when he was younger that was also his real action to the pain.
- Drew Barrymore was supposed to play Sidney. But she ended up changing her mind and went to Wes with a idea to have her as the open kill cause no one would expect it. Also would show if they could kill a huge star right off the bat it would mean NO ONE was safe. So Neve Campbell ended up playing Sidney which I'm really happy about cause she made that character her own. No one could play Sidney like she did. Just like how no one could have done Laurie on Halloween better than Jamie Lee Curtis.
-Even though Billy was at sidneys for the attack. It was actually Stu who she fought with when he was tripping up the stairs you can hear ghostface saying "easy" "easy". The next day at the lockers he was checking his face in tatums mirror for any bruises and when Tatum was hitting him with her sucker he says "easy" "easy.
-Billy was always 1 handed with his killing if he had a knife if didn't he resorts to choking except for Tatum he used the opportunity with the garage door. Stu uses both hands when using the knife and resorts to other tactics if doesn't have knife.
-Stu was the one that called Dewey about the abandon car and also called Randy about the principal after the whole "I'll be right back". Billy killed the principal so they can use him as a deploy for later that night to get rest of the guests to leave so the real party can began with going after Sid.
I think it was really nice of Johnny Depp to lend his face to Skeet Ulrich for this movie
In another reaction, the reactors thought it was Leonardo DiCaprio.
I mean, Skeet did kind of look like DiCaprio.
They don't look alike at all.
Cool fact about this movie is when it came out in 96, it was so realistic that caller ID increased by like 300% in America after it's release
Maybe it was a new thing? I remember getting it around then but I'm UK.
@@frosksdeadteeth5163 It was new-ish. But this did push an increase in interest and sales.
There’s a funny double joke when Ghostface appears behind Randy while he’s watching “Halloween”. The actor who plays “Randy” is named Jamie Kennedy while he’s telling Jamie Lee Curtis character “Laurie” to “Turn around, Jamie. Look behind you” when Michael appeared.
Also, have to watch “Carrie” for sure to catch that “pig blood” reference. Another horror classic.
@DEADKISS17 this is the best meta scene in the whole movie, I mean, Kevin Williamson is such a genious!
oh shit that's right
@@andysilvamoreira641 Was it Kevin Williamson's idea, though? It's not like he knew Jamie Kennedy would be cast when he wrote the script.
Yup
Stu saying "Ow, why'd you hit me with the phone, dick!" That was a real reaction and they kept it in the movie.
Fun Facts: the janitor in the Freddy Krueger sweater was actually Wes Craven. Drew Barrymore was actually offered the role of Sidney but she thought it would really throw audiences for a loop if her character was 1 of the 1st to be killed. In the scene where the phone hit Stu, that was not scripted. Skeet Ulrich hit Matthew Lillard by accident and Matthew's reaction was genuine. Wes Craven thought it was so funny, he kept it in the movie. Also, the scene with Randy sitting on the couch, watching Halloween and saying "behind you Jamie" was a bit of a joke since the actor playing him was Jamie Kennedy. I love the Scream movies. I really hope you react to Scream 2. It's just as good as the first one.
"Behind you, Jamie!" Oh my God! He was literally talking to himself. I never caught that before. I just learned also that when Drew's character in the opening sequence hits Ghostface in the face with her phone, that's Wes in the mask.
@@toastyyghost I always felt so bad for Drew Barrymore's character in the beginning
@@chrishansen9731 That whole beginning sequence used to scare me a lot. But especially how it ends. Being so close to salvation and they just walk right by her, unable to hear her crying for help. It used to be a phobia of mine because of this movie that I would be assaulted or worse near witnesses only no one would see or hear, so no one would come to my rescue.
Drew wasn't just offered the part of Sidney. She was cast as Sidney. When they did the promotional material, she was playing Sid. It wasn't until 2 weeks before filming she said she'd rather play Casey.
The mask was actually a real Halloween costume accessory owned by Fun World before it was Ghostface. They found it and loved it but it was too expensive to license for themselves, so they had the FX crew make their own knock-off mask that they filmed two scenes with, which got Fun World to lower the price so they were able to use the original look for the rest of the film. So in the opening where they kill Drew's character they actually use two different looking masks, which you can see in the final cut of the movie if you look closely.
came here to say the same thing
It wasn't too expensive. They just didn't know who owned it at first. So they tried to create their own version. When that didn't look right they decided to try and find who owned the rights. All Funworld asked for was their name in the credits. Definitely not too expensive. Lol
yeah, one looks somewhat more bulky. Less round (don't know how to say it lol)
Fun Fact: When Neve Stabbed Skeet with the umbrella, the second stab actually injured him opening an open heart surgery wound he had when he was ten. craven liked the reaction so well he let it in
Shit! Did they at least call a paramedic?
Im pretty sure they did but it was a genuine reaction to getting stabbed with an umbrella
Guys the janitor in the Freddy sweater was Wes Craven. Cool little cameo.😂
Here we go... 38 minutes of appreciating Tom's beauty while watching an incredible film. It was actually the first movie I rented from a VHS store when I was a kid in the 2000s.
Patrick Marques Just Tom? Both of them are so handsome 😩😁
@@justinp4702 That's what I'm sayin, yo.
22:25: Not only that but in this scene you’ll notice Randy watching Halloween and yelling at the screen, “Behind you Jamie. Look behind you”. He’s obviously talking to Laurie Strode, who’s played by Jamie Lee Curtis, but Randy’s actor is named Jamie Kennedy, so this is technically him telling himself to look behind himself.
This movie is also great on a second watch, trying to notice all the killer reveal clues or trying to figure out which one of the killers was ghostface in each scene is pretty fun. Once you notice the small details (like how Stu holds the knife in 2 hands while Billy holds the knife in one hand, and how Stu prefers slicing his victims, which is actually directly referenced in the fountain dialogue, while Billy prefers stabbing them, or how Stu is seen checking his head for bruises the day after Ghostface headbutts Sidney) the movie just gets brought to a higher level
fun fact. In this movie, they were watching Halloween. In the movie Halloween H20, Laurie Strode's son was watching Scream 2.
Yeah, that's really weird, considering the context.
Now that's what I call friendship
'Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)' is one 'Nightmare on Elm St' sequel worth watching. It's by Wes Craven (as the title suggests) and is very 'meta'. Since, it's told from the perspective of the real life actors who starred in the original franchise. Definitely worth checking out, if you revisit the series.
Part 3 is also absolutely worth watching.
Scream was the ultimate tribute/homage to slasher films that came before it, even as old as Psycho. It was released during Xmas season and was thought to initially be a flop but week after week it continued to make millions because of good word of mouth. Totally revitalized the genre. Excellent movie!
What I love with Sydney is her evolution through the movies... She starts as this weak innocent girl and becomes this strong woman who dares the killer to come at her. I love her so much !
This movie was not predictable, it was the BLUEPRINT
Just like with Halloween 🎃 (1978)
Also a deconstruction and a satire of the genre
The writing of this movie is memorable because all future slasher horror movies made after this one were influenced by it. It was the movie that deconstructed and broke all of slasher horror movies cliches and stereotypes. Slasher horror movies were becoming too predictable and were looking too much similar to each other and Scream definitely took a new and different path. The greatness of this movie was not only the breaking of slasher horror movies rules and stereotypes but also the concept of mixing reality with cinema fiction, about reality being reflected by cinema and cinema being reflected by reality. It's like one of the characters from Scream 2 says "It's a classic case of art imitating life imitating art...". That's why Sydney's boyfriend says to to her "it is a movie, it's all one great big movie" after she tells him "but this is life, it isn't a movie". It's not a random and whacky thing that he said out of nowhere, the movie made him say that on purpose. This movie poses quite a deep question, do horror and violent movies or just cinema in general makes some people who watch it violent or is cinema just a reflection of the violence in the world?! Wes Craven answers it with the words of Sydney's boyfriend who turned out to be the killer when he says to her "Don't blame the movies, movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!". Most of these concepts are brilliantly showcased in the scene where the friend of Sydney's boyfriend gets killed by that Tv on which John Carpenter's "Halloween" was shown. He was killed by the very same thing that prompted him to kill people in real life. Cinema which gets reflected in reality which gets reflected in cinema and so on. What I also love about that scene is how the music of "Hallowen" which comes out of the tv gets mixed with "Scream" soundtrack. That scene is just genius, just like the whole script. The macabre irony about the whole question that the movie poses of whether movies make people violent or are movies a reflection of the violence in the world is the fact that after Scream became popular there were a bunch of people who were inspired by the movie to commit some homicides and they were even in possession of Ghostface masks and costumes.
This movie truly needs context to really understand how and why it became iconic. If you weren't there at the time then you might not be able to understand it. The slasher movie genre was huge in the 80s. There were endless numbers of slasher villains that became icons during that time. Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Chucky, etc. But by the mid 90s the genre was almost totally dead. Too many bad sequels that took themselves too seriously. In the mid 90s after grunge music it became cool to be more detached and ironic about everything. The characters in all of these bad sequels all made terrible decisions and didn't act like real people. Scream really changed the game in so many ways. Now a days there are tons of shows and movies that are self referential and "meta" but when Scream came out there weren't many. It reinvented and reinvigorated the Slasher genre for a new generation. Throughout this movie, the kids talk like kids would speak at the time. They talk about horror movies from the past and pretty much know that they are "living" in one. At the time that was kind of unheard of. Then there is the opening scene. Drew Berrymore was by far the most famous person in the movie and that opening scene sets her up to be the lead of the movie and killing her off was totally shocking (in a nod to Janet Leigh is Psycho). I was 14 when it came out and i saw it 5 times in the theater. It blew my mind at that time. After the movie came out there were tons of imitators and a lot of the things that this movie did revolutionary at the time have now become overdone and clique at this point.
So cool seeing this comment considering how many times I've read 'The Janitor WAS Wes Craven'
You’re so On point here! This movie changed everything for horror movies. I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend... you can named and it became after Scream
The Freddy cameo isn't Robert Englund who plays Freddy in the films, but is actually Wes Craven himself dressed as Freddy.
That's even better, lol.
The score in Scream is immaculate
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@@SB992REBORN He phoned it in for 4, though. That score was not it. We need better.
You mean Nick Cave? thats the score, basically
That Ghostface in the bathroom is actually a prankster. It's a common misconception that that's the actual killer. What I like is that they established that the killer's costume is easy to get your hands on, and there are kids in the school who are going around, pranking students. Also, if you look closely, he's not brandishing a knife.
As for the killer in the grocery store briefly, I honestly have no idea.
that “i wanna know who i’m looking at” in the opening scene still ranks in my top 5 horror lines. is that first big “oh shit” moment in this epic film 😃
I think what makes Ghostface such a dangerous slasher/killer is the fact that there is multiple killers. And that Ghostface is almost always self aware of the horror genre and tropes. And lastly they're usually people you know or have an intimate relationship with. So a killer that knows you personally, self aware of it's own horror meta, and more than one is.... one scary killer.
The ghost face mask was actually an off-the-shelf one that was commonly available at any costume shop in the early 90s. My buddy wore one a year or two before this came out and we all made fun of how goofy it looked -- he wore it again a few years later and nobody was laughing then.
Just to show movies really make an cultural impact 💯
11:51 What you called the Peaky Blinders theme is actually a song called "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and was used famously in episodes of The X-Files in the 90's so its actually a pop culture reference of the time.
What made it a good horror film was the fact the the killer was your average guy. He wasn't a monster or an evil spirit. It made you doubt your own friends. You have to watch the rest of the series. I liked them all their was always some kind of twist in the end.
The fact that you guys made it to 2020 and had none of this spoiled for you is absolute gold
It's worth noting that the actress in the opening scene, Drew Barrymore, was already a major Hollywood star when this film came out in 1996. She was featured very prominently in the trailers and promotional posters leading up to the release as well, making it seem as if she was going to be the main heroine, so it was extra shocking to have her be killed off so brutally within the first 10 minutes of the film. Pretty brilliant way of pulling the rug from under the audiences feet and saying all bets are off for the rest of the movie.
yes, and doing this was an homage to Psycho where Hitchcock killed off Janet Leigh in the first act, letting the audience know all bets were off.
The janitor in the hallway with the Freddy sweater on is actually Wes Craven dressed up. Great video guys!
Matthew Lillard is such an underrated actor...he was really amazing in SLC Punk.
To me, he’s Shaggy
Another fun fact, the guy who voiced ghost face was the same guy who voices Mo jo Jojo from the powerpuff girls cartoons
Awww I didn't know that
Very nice
I love mojo jojo
Fun facts: They filmed this in my hometown, Santa Rosa, CA. My best friend is in the video store scene. My husband worked at the hotel that the cast and crew worked in. When Drew Barrymore wanted to borrow a bicycle to go for a ride, my husband lent her his and then wanted to buy a new seat so he could enshrine the one she sat on. 😂
Oh my god that’s awesome! How lucky they are, did you husband ever get to meet any of the cast and/or crew?
That's cool. It's a beautiful area. One of my favorite drives ever is the small roads and highways in that area. My babysitter's family owned Stu's house at the time, and I remember her telling me about this weird movie with the cast of Party of Five in it (lol) she saw being filmed. Apparently they didn't think she should've been allowed on set. Lol.
@@savannahmedina2467 Yes, there's a funny story about a party Skeet Ulrich had in his room. My husband thought he was the drug dealer on set and was shocked to see him as the male lead! LOL
You gotta make this all about you?
I saw this in the theater.... One thing that alot of people don't know is that when Scream came out it really had a huge following. There was alot of people talking about it and everyone who saw it was trying to tell their friends about it without revealing who the killer/killers are. It was #1 at the box office and was probably one of the last horror movies to have that kind of hysteria around it to this date. Maybe SAW comes close but not quite the same in terms of telling your friends...you HAVE to see Scream.
15:00 _"That's the head teacher..."_
Heyyyy! That's the FONZ!!!
THANK YOU!!! I don't think Tom and Shaun know how legendary he is!!!
New generations think the First Scream film is going to be campy because of all the cheesy sequels. Then they watch the opening scene when Drew Barrymore’s character is brutally killed, hung with rope and her parents discovering her and they quickly realize Scream is the best horror movie ever.
Yup
I mean, it is still pretty campy
"You hit me with the phone DICK!" That line kills me every time.
Haha same
"I'm getting woozy here!"
@@jkhoover "My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me."
Everyone thinks that's funny but in reality bloodloss will make your brain misfire So the lines about his mom and dad being mad, etc are his brain regressing because he's dying.
The janitor was actually played by Wes Craven and he was wearing the actual sweater used in A Nightmare on Elm St.
Scream (and the whole franchise) is my favorite movie of all time.
This is the most fun horror show on RUclips. Freaking loving it.
Hell yes. Instant click! Can’t wait for other classics.
Aaron White I was waiting for this one!!!!
I'm 57 so it's funny people calling them classics
A classic doesn’t have to do with age. The shining is a classic. The Twilight Zone(original), so many are classic. But there can be modern classic.
Hence the phrase “instant classic”
Samme
The reason skeet ulrich screams so loudly when neve stabs him with the umbrella is because it hit an old scar on his chest, it wasn't acting, it was real pain
My absolute favourite bit is Randy saying "Look behind you Jamie" - talking about Jamie Lee Curtis but the actor playing Randy is Jamie Kennedy and it's like he is also talking to himself as Ghostface was behind him.
Fun bit of trivia: the original title of this film was "Scary Movie." It was changed at the last minute by Harvey Weinstein (the producer), leaving the title to be snatched up by the parody series.
The Janitor was the Director - Wes Craven.
Spoilers for anyone who hasn't watched the video yet.
Two things: Matthew Lilard being hit with the phone was an accident. It slipped out of Skeet Ulrich's hand and smacked him, but he rolled with it.
Also, one of the umbrella stabs was legit. Dude got impaled on the thing, because she missed the pad they had to protect him.
I could write a paper about how brilliant I think this film is, and how it's uniquely and thematically rich, especially for a slasher. Scream's relationships with sex and gender takes the subgenre's general proclivities and makes them explicit concerns and I think makes the film's subversive bones function for more than just upsetting expectations. It's a slasher that feels really socially violent in the ways that many other slashers only accidentally are. Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven definitely bake this in by design, and end up crafting an early and earnestly feminist slasher that doesn't fuck around. Billy and Stu are scary because I know those guys and basically went to school with a lot of boys that entitled, minus the knives and guns. Look around at who runs the world.
Also, that third act.
Also also, I think Williamson's ear for dialogue is, at its best, super distinct and memorable. Scream remains his best film script (though 2 is also very good and 4 is worth watching).
One other thing, I think this film takes trauma, both communal and personal (specifically generational trauma) surprisingly seriously. That through line continues effectively through Scream 2, though a lot else would change. Thanks for the video! It was a lot of fun!
No one wants to read your paper.
@@chasejackson7248 so I see you wasted your time to be pointlessly mean on the internet?
That's a shame.
22:25 this is a super meta moment. Jaime Kennedy is telling Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween to watch out while the killer is right behind Jaime Kennedy in Scream. Good stuff.
When Neve Campbell stabbed Skeet Ulrich with the umbrella she aimed too high and really stabbed him. The high pitch scream was real.
"Scream 2" is one of the few horror sequels that is actually just as good if not better than the original. And both are solid.
Couldn’t agree more 👏👏👏
It's my favorite of the franchise. I got to be on set. When I was in high school, I used to sneak onto Agnes Scott College to get at the girls. It's an all-girl college and that's where they filmed the campus scenes. I got to meet some of the cast.
Idk why I was bored throughout that movie. I liked scream 4 better
26:06 real reaction from Skeet Ulrich as this umbrella strike hit a surgery scar.
Fun fact: Wes Craven does not agree with what the script says about the Freddy sequels, that's courtesy of Kevin Williamson, the screenwriter.
I’m really happy I came across this channel. As a horror movie junkie, I freaking LOVE seeing people’s reactions for the first time! The way these guys do it is perfect, too. There isn’t too much talking and the commentary is hilarious.
The part where Billy throws the phone and hits Stu has a real reaction from actor Matthew Lillard as the phone really hit him.
Don't know if you caught this but the actor that plays Randy his name is Jamie Kennedy and he's watching Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween. He's telling Jamie to turn around that he's right behind you all while Ghostface is also behind him where he also needs to turn around lol. It's little things like that truly makes Wes Craven an amazing director with how he puts the little things like that together.
Fun fact: Skeet wasn’t supposed to hit Lillard with the phone but the stuff they used for blood, which he assumes is corn syrup, made the phone stick to his hand as he went to throw it across the room and accidentally hit Lillard instead, and the line “you hit me with the phone, dick” was improvised.
The idea that the killer was someone close to you really was pretty novel at this point. It scared me. I think it’s held up pretty well. I still love it.
FYI in ‘96 not that many young people had cellphones. I was in college years later and only a few people had them (they really took off in the early 2000s... that’s why it was particularly suspicious for Billy to drop one).
Rule about older movies: never watch them with modern connotations.
Back then, nobody had what we have today.
The "Fred" scene at the school, the guy in the freddy shirt was actually the director Wes Craven himself
Henry Winkler, the principal was not credited because he wanted the younger actors to get top credits.
But at least he didn't do The Fonze in his office.
wow he's arrogant
I remember seeing this in '96. The entire theatre exploded in laughter at 15:19 ... not only is it a joke on 'Freddy,' that's actually Wes Craven, himself XD
This movie is very much a tribute to Halloween, that's why they're watching it at the party.
The guy playing the janitor, the nod to Freddy Krueger IS actually Wes Craven.
If you guys are planning to watch Scream 2-4 then count me in! I've subbed to the channel and hope to see those in the future. Scream was my favorite horror series growing up, right next to Halloween.
Oh! And Scream 5 is CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION!!
oneinabillyen Wes isn’t directing scream 5 tho
@@emscnpck I'd be surprised if he were considering he's dead
Jo Lennon well the directors did ready or not, so i’m excited for scream 5
Fun Fact:
That second time Billy is stabbed by Sidney with the umbrella, and then falls down? Yea, that was a real stab. Sid slightly missed her mark, and Billy didn't give her enough of that 'fake room' to use, so she did actually end up impaling him a bit. Obviously he didn't die or anything serious, but still.
He had heart surgery as a kid and it hit a wire.
I would say the thing that sets it apart from other slasher films is we don't know who the killer is. With Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th we know who the killer is and the killer stays the same no matter how many sequels there are. So Scream is not only a slasher but a murder mystery and I absolutely love a good whodunit.
Yes, thats what i love in horror movies
Black Christmas (1974) is another slasher movie with a mysterious killer.
The scene with the Principal and the mirror is an in-joke. The actor, Henry Winkler, played The Fonz in Happy Days. The credit sequence shows him checking himself in a mirror.
👍 I was about to comment that haha
I know about the Happy Days and the Fonz, but it could’ve just been just something they wanted in the movie, and it just so happen to be a thing similar to Happy Days and the Fonz. If you remember the Fonz did the comb his hair thing a lot, even without the mirror.
Billy and Stu gave me easily the most entertainment I’ve ever watched in a horror flic
"You hit me with the phone dick!"
"Fun" fact : at 26:02, Skeet Ulrich really got hit by the umbrella so we can see his legit reaction. Neve Campbell was supposed to target a protective pad on his chest but she missed.
She also hit him right on his scar from when he got his heart surgery
Guys the janitor in scream wearing the Freddy costume is Wes Craven!! He’s playing a cameo
this is the only way I can experience watching this film again for the first time
Haha same i’ve been watchin it since i was 8 😂
Sad story. In an "homage" to this film, back in like 2006 two teenage boys in Idaho brought this story to life and murdered their 16 yr old classmate as she was home alone at night. They turned the power off and on. They moved throughout the noise making scary noises. Everything to psychologically torture the poor girl. They got caught because they had videotaped the murder(thankfully that footage was unreleased), and also their planning prior to, and their excitement after the slaughter. It's a fascinating study in sociopathy.
Billy and Stu were my all time favorites coming up. They pretty much originated the two-killer thing.
34:00 The soundtrack is great!
During the first scene with Sidney and Billy in her room, the song in the background is Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult and if you watch Halloween the same song is playing in the car when Annie and Laurie are driving to their babysitting gig.
It’s actually a cover version by a band called Gus....but yes you’re right and it’s a great version of the song.
@@charmerschannel7126 you are correct! It fit the moment perfectly.
Scream revitalized the slasher horror genre with its sharp revisionist writing, a comedy spoof satire while being a genuinely scary movie in its own right.
fun fact rose mcgowan was actually able to fit through the doggy door on the garage door so thats a body double
Don't be afraid of the sequels. They may not top the original but they are all pretty solid. 3 will be the low point but surprisingly 4 (done after a 10 years gap) is still great.
Plus they have the final scream coming out this year! Lol worth it to watch em all in my opinion
4 sucks. 3 isn't that bad tbh
@@dylanbarton4889 4 alot better than 3 bro 😂
@@AlexHernandez99220 nah man. 4 is dogshi*.
@@dylanbarton4889 3 is somewhat good yeah, but 4 is better for sure!
The ghostface mask wasn't created for Scream, it already existed and when they found it, they absolutely loved it and had to have it. They tried multiple different drafts of other masks, but Ghostface was IT on sight.
What happened was they filmed the first scene and Bob Weinstein saw the dailies and watching the person in the mask turn around again and again was comical. When you see just one shot, it is scary but watching them wait to perform and then go back to their first mark, etc. -- it looked funny. So Bob said to film the killer in five different masks and they'd decide which one was best later. Wes Craven was so annoyed; he knew the movie wasn't scary as raw footage but would be if it was edited. So he worked overtime to edit the first cut and told Bob if he admitted the scene was good, that he'd leave Wes Craven alone for the rest of the shoot. Bob watched what we basically saw in the final edit and said, "Oh... well, what do I know about movies?" etc. and then didn't bug Wes again.
You know the first time I watched this, I always suspected Billy, so I wasn't surprised, but when Stu showed up I was floored, and then it all made sense somehow that Ghostface could be anywhere and everywhere and in my head at times, one of them would call while the other would seek out to kill. It blew my mind cause normally it's always one killer, seeing two was a complete shock. Love the Scream films.
Kevin Williamson wrote the story, originally titled Scary Movie, and based the plot loosely on the 1990 case of the Gainesville Ripper. It was a string of murders in a small town... Then it was changed to "Scream" cause the Ghostface costume was a close resemble to the 1893 Scream painting. The Ghostface costume was originally going to be all white but Wes said it was to much like the KKK so he did the black robe with white face.
The scream movies are fucking awesome. I went to the movies back in 1996 when I was 19. I still love them all and last weekend I saw scream 5
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That wasn’t scripted. The phone stuck to Skeet Ulrich’s hand because of all the fake blood which caused him to mistakingly throw it at Matthew Lillard. That, “Fucking hit me with the phone, dick” line is Lillard’s actual reaction.
I saw scream in 97 at 9 years old. To think that there are people who havent seen it....wow. Its such an amazing movie. The original VHS has extended scenes with more gore. None of the dvds ive seen have those. Way better with the original. I was very unlucky the first time I saw the movie, I saw the end before I saw everything else so I knew the killer situation before watching the entire movie. so it really spoiled everything for me. I have always lived vicariously through people who have never seen the movie. I have had watch parties at my house for people who I've never seen the movie. Unfortunately because so many people have seen scary movie, A lot of times it's spoiled so surprised at the end. Just because they seen scary movie. Which sucks. But I can't believe it's been so fucking long since since movie came out. I think a lot of people forget just how good this movie was. They take it for granted because of movies like saw and other gory films and so many of the suspenseful movies that have come out. But this movie really was a work of art. And it may have aged, but I think if people really take the time to watch it they will remember just how amazing it was.
I love that when Henry Winkler scared himself, he fixed his hair like Fonzie
also love how he cuts her to prove its a real knife, and in the next scene you can see its rubber when he uses his hand to get up
One of my absolute favorite movies. Fun fact when Sid stabs billy with the umbrella she missed the protective pad and actually stabbed him. His reaction is real. And when Drew hits ghost face in the face with the phone in the beginning, it was actually Wes craven wearing the mask. Also when Tatum is trying to escape through the cat flap she could actually fit through it, they had to mail her shirt to the frame of the cat flap. In Stus attic when she escapes out the window if you look again theres dolls hanging by their necks by rope
Damn people are watching Scream for the first time in 2020? I’ve seen this movie so many times over the years.
The "Peaky Blinders" theme is just a Nick Cave song from 1994 called Red Right Hand.
It really hurt to hear them keep calling it that😞
I love how people have not watched this and are like “oh, it’s the Peaky blinders theme song.” I started watching Peaky Blinders and was like oh, it’s the song from Scream! 🤣 I stumbled onto this video! Great reaction. Scream is and always will be one of my favs. I rewatch it every Halloween 👻
Nick cave and the bad seeds - red right hand
I think its annoying that a poor imitation of Boardwalk empire cant just get a better theme tune than one ripped off from a famous movie that was also taken from a song by Nick Cave
The attention to detail in this film are crazy; you can hear duct tape when you see the swing at the start (tying up the boyfriend), hear Billy yell “hey!” to Stu over the phone as the mom is listening. At 7:52, the music picks up because Stu is hiding the closet. Also, when Ghostface holds the knife with two hands it’s Stu, when it’s a one arm stab it’s Billy. Plus, the dad is seen wearing same outfit at the start as at the end, which means after leaving Sid’s room is when Billy kidnapped him. At 18:48, Billy’s look at Stu is to indicate Tatum was taken care of.
And you hear Stu's voice saying "easy" as Sidney is chased up the stairs. The next day at school (when he checks his forehead for a bump) he says the same thing.
I wish I realized that when he said "I'll see you in the kitcthen with a knife" it was foreshadowing
THERE'S A FORMULA TO IT, A VERY SIMPLE FORMULA, EVERYBODY'S A SUSPECT!!!
Go back and watch when Billy comes into Sidneys room at the beginning and listen to the song playing in the background.
Now that you know he's the killer it makes so much sense.
15:21 - That's the director Wes Craven mopping the halls. And yes, his name is Fred and he's wearing a red and green striped sweater and a fedora. ;)
Scream is groundbreaking, especially for its time, it completely changed the horror genre. If you were a horror movie coming out in the late 90s/2000s, you pretty much were trying to be like Scream with "self awareness" and snarky "hip" dialogue. It created an entirely new status quo.
It's kinda "tarantinian" when you think about it
The problem is the ones that followed were pretty terrible. I know What You did Last Summer, Urban Legend, desperate
That "teacher" is Henry Winkler AKA The Fonz. That's why he keeps his "cool" so much.
I’m a simple man. I see scream reactions, I click.