Sidney is a young girl who has lived a dramatic and tragic experience in her life: her mother, in fact, was killed in a horrible way the previous year; the murderer was sentenced to death. One year later, everything seems to be quiet and Sidney's life seems to be serene; but right in the middle of a night, two young students are brutally massacred in their villa after receiving repeatedly an anguishing series of phone calls. Casey Baker's body will be found by her parents hanging from a tree in a lake of blood, in a macabre scene that is a homage from director Wes Craven to the film Suspiria by Dario Argento. In Woodsboro, the inhabitants and the high school students will be shocked and deeply disturbed by a series of inexplicable murders. The campus will be invaded by a wave of journalists and police officers who will bring into Sidney's heart a state of absolute and deep anguish that will remind her of her mother's death. For the students, it seems almost like living in a real horror movie...
"Scream" is truly a horror movie that retraces the long and spectacular chain of films that have marked cinema history. Director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson have made Scream a true "mirror" of horror cinema: just think of the opening scene, in which Casey Baker answers the phone, just as happens in the movie "When a Stranger Calls"; in the final scene, during which the students celebrate in a countryside villa, the television broadcasts the movie "Halloween" by Carpenter and the screams of the protagonist will serve as a backdrop to the murder of the Scream killer. Director Craven designed for his killer a mask with a disturbing appearance, inspired by the artistic masterpiece of the painter Edward Munch "The Scream".
The film was a huge success worldwide, breaking the box offices of all cinemas and presenting horror lovers with the first movie that, after a long period of silence, brought the horror genre back to life and revived the trend of youth horror; to follow will be "I Know What You Did", "The Faculty", "Valentine", "Urban Legend" and of course the two sequels of Scream. All these movies that followed it have not been able to recreate that original atmosphere of unease that director Craven has skillfully proposed to us. Scream presented us with the excellent performances of Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Drew Barrymore, the latter already a great famous actress at that time and still known worldwide. The director carves out a small cameo, appearing in the guise of a janitor who wears the clothes of the famous character Freddy Krueger. A terrifying film mixed with humor, that all horror lovers are obliged to keep in their video library.
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