Classic Friday : Scream (1996) 9/10

Starring : Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Kennedy, Drew Barrymore
Director : Wes Craven
Running Time : 106 mins

Following the brutal murder of Casey Becker (Barrymore) and her boyfriend, her classmate Sidney Prescott (Campbell) finds herself at the centre of a criminal case involving a relentless serial killer dressed in a Halloween costume, and begins to suspect that the killer might be the same person who killed her mother one year earlier.

This is the first in one of the best horror series in a long time, and made horror films a solid staple for cinema goers once again. The fact that characters you don’t expect to die are killed, and that every character has a personality, makes this a movie that will survive the test of time and still feel fresh many years from now. Rumour has it that Wes Craven has signed on for Scream 4, but let’s hope that that’s all it is – a rumour. Making another sequel would only cheapen the originals.

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