

Scream
Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.
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.
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7.4/10
8,319 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $14M
- Box office
- $173M
- Language
- English
- high school
- small town
- california
- killing
- halloween
- house party
- serial killer
- school
- slasher
- whodunit
- killing spree
- phone
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereRLos Angeles, California18 Dec 1996
- TheatricalR20 Dec 1996
- PhysicalNRVHS24 Jun 1997
- PhysicalNRLaserdisc2 Jul 1997
- PhysicalRVHS3 Dec 1997
- PhysicalR25th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Digital19 Oct 2021
- Theatrical (limited)R4 May 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical182 May 1997
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+13 Feb 1997
CanadaCA
- Theatrical18A20 Dec 1996
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1611 Sept 1997
- Theatrical30 Oct 2025
AustriaAT
- Theatrical31 Oct 1997
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1630 Jul 1997
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1431 Jan 1997
ChileCL
- Theatrical8 Jan 1998
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+3 Jul 1997
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1527 Jun 1997
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-169 May 1997
Frequently asked questions
Scream was released on 20 December 1996.
Audience reviews
2- T10/10
The Movie Mob
9/3/2022
**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-f…
- N8/10
Nathan
3/5/2023
**_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 …
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