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In what year was Scream released?
1995
1996
Before Scream, the horror genre was in a rut, with Hollywood turning out increasingly less energetic sequels to franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. These were the very movies that Scream set out to parody.
1997
1998
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Who directed the movie and who wrote it?
Wes Craven/Efren Krueger
John Carpenter/Wes Craven
Wes Craven/Kevin Williamson
Kevin WIlliamson was just arriving as a screenwriter when he wrote the script. Wes Craven was already famous for shocking movies like Last House on the Left and the tamer but more popular A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Wes Craven both wrote and directed
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What does Casey (Drew Barrymore) say her favorite scary movie is?
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Writer Williamson listened to the soundtrack to Halloween for inspiration, while writing Scream. In addition, Casey says that she likes A Nightmare on Elm Street. That movie, of course, was directed by Craven.
Don't Look Now
When a Stranger Calls
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What question does Casey answer incorrectly?
Who dies first in The Hills Have Eyes?
Who was the killer in Halloween?
Who was the killer in Friday the 13th?
Casey says that Jason was the killer, which is the answer a lot of people would give. But in the very first film, the killer was Jason's mother, Mrs. Voorhees.
Who directed Psycho?
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Who played the movie's lead, Sidney Prescott?
Neve Campbell
McGowan, who became a horror-film staple in the late '90s and early 2000s, played Sidney's closest friend. Gayheart would land a role in Scream 2.
Claire Danes
Rebecca Gayheart
Rose McGowan
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From what trauma is Sidney recovering as the movie opens?
the death of her father
the death of her mother
The murder of Sidney's mother isn't explicitly referenced until about 25 minutes in. Before that, there are some awkward pauses and glances while Sidney's friends discuss the brutality of the new murders -- so the audience knows something is up, but not exactly what it is.
being rejected by her first-choice university
a bout with cancer
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Who played Cotton Weary, the suspected murderer of Sidney's mother?
David Boreanaz
Colin Farrell
Rufus Sewell
Liev Schrieber
Reporter Gale Weathers is an early proponent of the theory that Weary is innocent. He apparently had consensual sex with Maureen Prescott before someone else entered the home and killed her.
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Who played the TV reporter, Gale Weathers?
Jennifer Connelly
Faith Ford
Courteney Cox
Cox wanted to play a 'b---," to offset her nice-girl role on Friends. The makers of Scream initially had their doubts that she could pull off the Weathers character.
Shannen Doherty
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What is the name of the town where the murders take place?
Amity
Elm Springs
Plattsboro
Woodsboro
Scream takes place in the kind of upper-middle-class suburban setting that was very typical for the slasher films it parodied. Although those big houses with several doors and plate-glass windows might look appealing, they can be a real drawback when a masked killer is outside.
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What does Sidney do on her front porch to taunt the mystery caller?
hangs up on him
flashes her breasts
picks her nose
Sidney is challenging the caller to tell her what she's doing at that very moment. He's still on the line with her. Actually, inside her house.
lounges and drinks lemonade
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What causes Sidney to distrust her boyfriend, Billy, shortly after the Ghostface attack?
he turns up too quickly after the attack
he drops his cell phone in her room
Just after Ghostface retreats, Billy arrives at Sidney's house and comforts her. Unfortunately, as he embraces her, his phone drops to the floor, and she then believes that he was her attacker.
he can't explain where he's just been
he knows a detail about the attack he shouldn't have
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Who played Dewey, the inept sheriff's deputy?
David Arquette
Originally, the role of Dewey was supposed to be a hunky but dim character. It was altered to suit Arquette's slender build and comic style.
Dave Coulis
Jon Stewart
Breckin Meyer
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Who is Deputy Dewey's younger sibling?
Billy
the video-store clerk Randy
Billy's friend Stu
Sidney's friend Tatum
In the scene where a traumatized Sidney spends the night at Tatum's house, Dewey is there. That must have been reassuring. Or not, considering his level of competence!
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Who played the high school principal, Arthur Himbry?
Enrico Colantoni
Emilio Estevez
Harry Groener
Henry Winkler
Winkler is best known for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the 70s sitcom, Happy Days. Though few people would guess it, Winkler was cast against type in that role, being a soft-spoken Jewish actor who received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
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Just before Principal Himbry's murder, he sees a janitor dressed like whom?
Dracula
Freddy Krueger
The janitor wears Freddy's fedora and red-and-green striped sweater. In the original film, Freddy is a killer of teenagers -- and in the remake, he even worked at a school before his death by burning.
Michael Myers
Ghostface
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What name is the masked killer given?
Father Death
the Caller
Ghostface
The Ghostface mask is modeled on Edvard Munch's The Scream. This luridly colorful painting is one of the more widely-recognized pieces of classic art, along with the Mona Lisa and The Girl with the Pearl Earring.
Mr. X
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What is Randy's third rule of surviving a horror movie, behind "no sex" and "no drinking or drugs"?
never have a bad relationship with your parents
never stay out after midnight
never say, "is somebody there?"
never say, "I'll be right back."
You could almost include saying, "Is somebody there?" In the opening scene, the killer on the phone warns Casey not to say, "Who's there?" However, it wasn't one of Randy's rules.
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What do Billy and Sidney do upstairs at the party?
have a fight
have sex
SIdney, no longer a virgin, is now eligible to be killed. The murderers will remind her of that, rather gleefully, a bit later.
try to figure out who the killer is
have a long talk about their relationship
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How does Sidney's friend Tatum die?
she is stabbed, like most of the characters
she is hanged from a tree
she is accidentally shot by her brother Dewey
her head is crushed by a garage door as she tries to go through a cat flap
Tatum is trapped with Ghostface in the garage, and tries to escape through a cat door. Rose McGowan was actually small enough to fit through the cat flap, and had to feign getting stuck.
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Whose car do Dewey and Gale find parked down the road from Stu's house?
Billy's father's
Principal Himbry's
Neil Prescott's
Sidney's father Neil has been mentioned as a suspect, largely because he hasn't been reachable since the murders began. The discovery of his car parked in some shrubbery seems to further indicate his guilt.
Sheriff Burke's
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What event causes most of the partygoers to abruptly leave?
the discovery of Tatum's body
an alleged Ghostface sighting
the news that Principal Himbry was found hanging from a goalpost at school
The students pile out of Stu's house to go see the crime scene, as though it's a tourist attraction. One of the main themes of Scream was the supposed cynicism of teens in the 1990s. It would take the 9/11 attacks to remind everyone that there are bigger problems in the world.
the power going out at the house
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Who is eventually revealed to be the killer?
Neil Prescott
Billy
Stu
both Billy and Stu
Billy's motive was that Sidney's mother had an affair with his father, causing his mother to walk out. Stu's motive was simply thrills. This "split decision" paved over a difference in opinion among the film's makers, between those who felt the killers needed a solid motive, and those who thought it was better for them to simply be amoral sadists.
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Which movie does Billy quote from before shooting Randy?
Freaks
The Omen
Psycho
After Randy says that Stu has gone crazy, Billy says, "We all go a little mad sometimes" and shoots Randy, revealing himself as one of the killers. He also gives proper credit to Anthony Perkins. He's a murderer, not a plagiarist!
The Wicker Man
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Why has Neil Prescott been out of touch with everyone?
he is dead
he's in a coma
he's being held prisoner by the killers
Billy and Stu plan to kill Neil after they murder Sidney, framing him in the same way that they did Cotton Weary. Billy tells Sidney about their role in her mother's death while he and Stu are tormenting her in the kitchen. proving that Gale Weathers was right all along.
this is never explained
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What does Sidney stab with Billy with when she jumps out of the closet?
an icepick
a kitchen knife
a Swiss Army knife
an umbrella
Not-so-fun fact: The stuntman playing Sidney missed the padding in the center of Skeet Ulrich's chest. For most actors, this would be mildly painful. But Ulrich has metal wiring under the skin from heart surgery as a child, so the stuntman's blow was quite unpleasant.
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How does Sidney kill Stu?
she strangles him with a telephone cord
she drops a TV set on his head
she runs over him with her father's car
When the set falls on Stu's head, sparks fly and his body convulses, implying that he is electrocuted. We're pretty sure this couldn't happen in real life -- a television set is full of tiny light diodes, not exposed high-voltage wiring.
she shoots him
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Who kills Billy?
Sidney
Neil Prescott
Dewey
Gale and Sidney
Gale shoots him the first time, after Billy left her on the front porch, unconscious. Sidney shoots again when he does the inevitable "jumping up and scaring everyone" bit.
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How many characters in Scream seem to have died, but come back?
one
two
three
Billy, Gale, and Dewey all come back from what seem to be unsurvivable incidents. Billy and Dewey were stabbed, while Gale crashed her news van into a tree. To be fair, Dewey doesn't come back dramatically from near-death -- but he's seen being loaded into an ambulance at the end.
none
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At which awards ceremony did Scream clean up?
the Golden Globes
The People's Choice Awards
the MTV Movie Awards
the Saturn Awards
The lesser-known Saturn Awards are for sci-fi, fantasy and horror films. Scream won for Best Actress, Best Writing, and Best Horror Film, as well as being nominated for Best DIrector, Best Supporting Actor (for Ulrich), and Best Supporting Actress (for Barrymore).
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What was Kevin WIlliamson's original title for Scream?
Screamers
Stab
The Rules
Scary Movie
We're happy that it was changed, since Scary Movie fits the parody series to a T. One of the main targets of the first Scary Movie, of course, was Scream itself.
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For which role did Drew Barrymore initially audition?
Tatum Riley
Sidney Prescott
Barrymore had a scheduling conflict that required her to take the smaller role. This might have been a blessing in disguise: It's the famous opening scene, Barrymore's, that everyone remembers about this movie.
Gale Weathers
she wanted to play Casey Becker from the start
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Which two actors fell in love during filming?
David Arquette and Courteney Cox
Cox and Arquette married in 1999 and they have a daughter together. Sadly, they have since divorced.
Courteney Cox and Matthew Lillard
Skeet Ulrich and Rose McGowan
Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich
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Which horror-movie actress had a cameo as a rival reporter to Gale Weathers?
Linda Blair
She only appears briefly, and the audience has to be alert to notice her. Blair has not been averse to winking at her Exorcist fame. She starred in an Exorcist parody called Re-possessed, and, in more recent years, played a cop on Supernatural.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Heather Langenkamp
Janet Leigh
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Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich acted together in what other horror movie?
The Craft
In the movie, The Craft, Ulrich played the doomed love interest of the main character Sarah and had a memorable death at the hands of "bad" witch Nancy (Fairuza Balk). Campbell played Bonnie, another novice witch in Sarah and Nancy's coven.
The Frighteners
The Midnight Meat Train
Hellraiser
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Which of the Scream sequels did Neve Campbell not appear in?
Scream 2
Scream 3
Scream 4
she was in all of them
Although Campbell has appeared in more artistic fare, like The Company and When Will I Be Loved, she never got too big to come back to the franchise that gave her a famous starring role. David Arquette and Courteney Cox also made repeat appearances.
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