Scream (1996) Reviews & Ratings

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Scream reviews

Scream holds a 7.4/10 average from 8,252 TMDB ratings.

**Scream was the first of its kind that redefined horror with new rules, a meta plot, and rebellious unexpected twists.** Scream followed all the rules and simultaneously broke them in a brilliant self-aware genre reinvention that leveraged every horror movie trope to set up and subvert every expectation. Scream is a love ballad to horror movie fans that intimately knows and zealously honors the legacy of terror-fil…
— The Movie Mob (10/10)

**_Scream delivered a breath of fresh air into the slasher franchise and holds up rather well nearly 30 years later._** The plot of this film follows a cookie-cutter structure that models nearly all of the great slasher franchises of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but that is entirely the point. Scream is completely aware of the tropes of horror movies and utilizes them in a creative way by adding commentary and su…
— Nathan (8/10)

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Movies like Scream

If you enjoyed Scream, these movies have a similar feel:

• Scream 4 (2011)
• Scream (2022)
• Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
• Scream 3 (2000)
• I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
• Scream VI (2023)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Scream 7 (2026)
• Lady in White (1988)
• I Saw What You Did (1965)
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
• The Children (2008)

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