Other Titles • Scream • Scary Movie (1996) • Scream - Schrei des Todes (1997)
Trivia from Scream (1996)
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When Billy (who looks like Johnny Depp) sneaks into Sidney's room in a manner similar to a scene where Depp's character does something similar in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
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Drew Barrymore was originally cast as Sidney Prescott (now played by Neve Campbell). But, due to schedule conflicts, Barrymore offered to play the much smaller role of Casey Becker.
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Stu's line "I always had a thing for ya, Sid!" and Sidney's response "In your dreams!" were ad-libbed by Matthew Lillard and Neve Campbell.
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Melissa Joan Hart auditioned for the role of Sidney Prescott.
Reese Witherspoon turned down the lead role.
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The special effects artists used about 50 gallons of blood for Scream.
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When Casey answers a question that the killer asks, she answers just like Rachel in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988): "It's Jason, I saw that movie 20 god damn times, it's Jason!" in the same tone of voice.
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Holly Marie Combs was on the list of possible actresses to play heroine Sidney Prescott.
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The knife that is used in the Scream-movies, is the same knife as Mrs. Voorhees is using in Friday the 13th.
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When Casey's parents come home and see that something is wrong, her father says to her mother, "Go down the street to the Mackenzies' house..." which is a quote from Halloween (1978).
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Casey hanging from the tree looks like the opening of Suspiria (1977).
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The school janitor Fred (played by Craven) can be seen wearing Freddy Krueger's outfit from A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Tatum wears a jersey with the number 10 on it. This is the same thing Johnny Depp's character wore in _Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)_ .
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Sidney's friend said she can picture Meg Ryan playing her if they ever did a movie about her. Sidney said, "My luck they would Cast Tori Spelling to play me." Tori Spelling was cast to play her in Stab shown in Scream 2 (1997).
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Casey claims that all of the sequels to _Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)_ "sucked". Craven had sold the rights to sequels before the film was a success and disliked many of the sequels. See also: _Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (1985)_ .
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The mask is based on the painting "Scream" by Edvard Munch.
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Mathew Lillard (Stu) add-libbed the line "Ah... Houston, we have a problem" when he discovered that the gun was gone.
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When Sidney comes out of the closet and stabs Billy with an umbrella, the stunt man was supposed to hit a pad on Skeet Ulrichs' chest. The first hit got the pad but the second one slipped and hit him in the chest (you can see it in his reaction too). Wes kept it in because of its authenticity.
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To keep Drew Barrymore looking scared and crying, director Wes Craven kept telling her real life stories about animal cruelty. She is a keen animal lover and vegetarian in real life.
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When the phone slips out of Billy's hand and hit's Stu's head, it was completely unintentional. Wes Craven kept it in because of Stu's realistic reaction.
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When Casey is trying to answer the "Name the killer in 'Halloween'" question in an attempt to save her boyfriend's life, you can hear a light musical score homage to John Carpenter's "Halloween" theme.
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In the opening sequence, When Casey's boyfriend gets "gutted", was a reference to Wes Craven's first film, "Last House On The Left". The same fate is met by the first victim, Phyllis Stone, who gets "disemboweled" when trying to escape Sadie and Weasel.
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Drew Barrymore and Neve Campbell did not meet Roger L. Jackson, the actor who played "the Voice" before shooting commenced. Whenever they are talking on the phone to the killer, they are actually talking to him.
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Rose McGowan dyed her hair blonde in order to contrast her black hair from Neve Campbell's
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The MPAA wanted to cut out the graphic shot of the killer stabbing Casey Becker at the beginning, but director Craven claimed it was the only take of it they had filmed (which wasn't true). The shot remained intact.
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The bathroom Sidney is attacked in is the same one used on the "Stab 3" set in Scream 3.
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Rebecca Gayheart auditioned for the role of Tatum Riley, but scheduling conflicts with her film _Somebody is Waiting (1996)_ prevented her from landing the role.
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The person wearing the ghost face costume was mostly played by a stunt man, not the actor.
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When the killer smashes his head through a window and Casey hits him in the face with the phone, Wes Craven is actually wearing the costume and was really hit in the face.
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When Bob Weinstein watched parts of the first scenes filmed (rough cuts), he said that the mask that GhostFace used was "idiotic". He asked the producers to film one scene with seven different masks and let him choose the one he liked the most. Producers didn't agree and threatened him to shut down production, they told him to wait until the first sequence (Drew Barrymore's) was completed and then he could decide. After watching it, he happily agreed to the mask used and didn't make another complaint for the rest of the filming.
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The idea of the pet door in the garage came from Williamson's assistant. Originally, Tatum's death scene was to be a fist fight with the killer, and having the door come down on her neck.
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The death of Principal Himbry was added to the film after Bob Weinstein noticed that there was about 30 pages in the script where nobody died and told Kevin Williamson that "somebody must die". Subsequently, the addition of the scene gave Kevin Williamson a good reason to have all the party guests leave the party near the climax.
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All the Killer's phone calls were really done by Roger L. Jackson on set with a Cell Phone. At one point, the crew were contacted by the police demanding to know who they were because they thought there was a real killer making the phone calls.
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Tatum says that the situation is like a Wes Carpenter film. This is a reference to Wes Craven, who directed the movie, and John Carpenter, who directed Halloween (1978), which is featured in the movie.
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ENDING CREDITS: No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.
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Right before the credits roll, there is a quick flash of the killer's face (Ghostface), so quick, it causes the viewer to doubt they actually saw it.
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Released theatrically in the USA December 20, 1996.
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The killer was based on a Florida serial killer Danny Rolling, also known as the "Gainsville Ripper."
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The Kevin Smith movie Clerks. is seen on top of the television that Gale Weathers places a camera on, and the movie poster can be clearly seen when Randy (Jaime Kennedy) is visited at work.
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David Arquette's sister Patricia Arquette starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, written and produced by Scream director Wes Craven.
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The cheerleader in the washroom scene was played by Skeet Ulrich's girlfriend.
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When Billy comes into Sidney's room at the beginning of the movie a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is played. The original is played at the beginning of the first Halloween movie.
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The film was originally to be shot at a high school in Santa Rosa, CA, but after the school board read the script they objected to the violent nature and production was moved to Healdsburg, CA.
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Tatum's house in Scream is right across the street from the house used in Pollyanna (1960), located in Santa Rosa, California.
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Billy's surname, Loomis, is the same as that of Donald Pleasance's character in Halloween (1978), which in turn was the name of Marion Crane's lover in Psycho (1960).
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The beginning of the movie is much like When a Stranger Calls (1979)
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Cameo: [Linda Blair] the reporter who says, "People want to know, they have a right to know."
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Two plugs for Kevin Smith's "Clerks". A poster for the film can be seen in the video store and the Video Box can be seen sitting on top of the VCR when everyone is watching Carpenters Halloween
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Originally titled "Scary Movie" which was later used for a parody of the Scream and other pop culture horror films like it.
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