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Scream

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During the party scene, the partygoers are struggling which movie to watch. The possibilities include The Evil Dead, Hellraiser, The Fog and Terror Train. Clerks is seen as a videotape on top of a television. During the party scene, when Billy arrives, Randy exclaims "Who let Leatherface in here?". Leatherface is the antagonist in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Other films that are seen or mentioned throughout the film include:

Reaction

Box office performance

The film opened in 1,413 theaters, taking $6,354,586 in its opening weekend. It went on to gain a domestic gross of $103,046,663, with, as of 2007, a worldwide lifetime gross of $173,046,663.[1]

Critical reception

The reaction to Scream was generally very positive amongst film reviewers, who appreciated the shift from the teen slasher films of the 1980s and their "endless series of laborious, half-baked sequels."[2] Williamson's script was praised as containing a "fiendishly clever, complicated plot" which "deftly mixes irony, self-reference and wry social commentary with chills and blood spills."[3]

Roger Ebert appreciated "the in-jokes and the self-aware characters", but was confused over The film inspired a revival of interest in the genre including Cherry Falls, Urban Legends,and I know what you Did Last Summer. Two sequels were produced (Scream 2 and Scream 3), with Williamson's I Know What You Did Last Summer following in 1997. It was also the inspiration for several parody films such as the Scary Movie series and Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth. "Scary Movie" had been Scream's working title.

The film has been parodied many times on television. During the 1997 MTV Movie Awards, the opening scene was parodied, with Britney Spears calling and terrorizing Casey Becker instead of the film's killer, Ghostface.

In an episode of That '70s Show, the character Eric Forman calls Donna Pinciotti and says "Hello, Donna" in the exact same way the film's killer says to Sidney Prescott. In an episode of Robot Chicken, the movie's killer, Ghostface is put into the Big Brother house along with many other famous horror icons such as Freddy Kreuger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers.

Soundtrack

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" performed by Gus Black is played. This song is played in the first Halloween film when Annie and Laurie are on their way to baby-sit.

The theme song for all three movies is "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

An alternate version of the music video "Drop Dead Gorgeous" by Republica featuring clips from the film was shown on music networks such as MTV. Although the song can be heard in the film, it does not show up on the soundtrack album. The song was also used in one of the TV promo spots for the film.

Untitled

The soundtrack album was released on December 17, 1996 featuring songs from the film. A CD featuring Marco Beltrami's orchestral music for Scream and Scream 2 was released on the Varèse Sarabande label in 1997.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Youth of America" - Birdbrain
  2. "Whisper" - Catherine
  3. Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  4. "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Gus
  5. "Artificial World" [Interdimensional Mix] - Julee Cruise
  6. "Better Than Me" - Sister Machine Gun
  7. "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)" - Soho
  8. "First Cool Hive" - Moby
  9. "Bitter Pill" - The Connells
  10. "School's Out" - The Last Hard Men
  11. "Trouble In Woodsboro"/"Sidney's Lament" - Marco Beltrami

VHS and DVD releases

The original, gorier version of the film was released on VHS in 1997. The box covers classified the film as rated "R" even though it was actually the unrated version. The unrated cut was only available on video when the film was released for sale to the general public while the rental version, released earlier that year, still contained the theatrical cut. The unrated version was officially released as "The Director's Cut" on laser disc but has yet to be released on DVD. Differences in the film include: A shot of Steve's entrails falling out of his stomach; a longer, slower version of the shot where Casey's body is shown hanging from a tree; Tatum's head getting crushed by the garage door; More blood can be seen pouring down Kenny's chest after getting his throat slashed; A more graphic version of the scene where Stu and Billy cut each other.

When the film was released for sale on VHS in 1997 it was available in several different forms including three collectible covers with one featuring Drew Barrymore's face, one had Neve Campbell's face and the other had Courtney Cox's face. There was also a collector's set which came with the wide screen version of the film on one tape and another tape featuring the movie with audio commentary by Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson. The set also featured a special Scream phone card with 10 minutes of talk time and three large collector's cards with the faces of Drew, Neve and Courtney (the same images used on the special VHS covers).

References

  1. ^ "Scream". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
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  3. ^ Harrington, Richard (December 20, 1996). "Go Ahead and 'Scream'". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-01-27.
  4. ^ Carlsson, Mikael. "Scream/Scream 2". Music from the Movies. Retrieved 2007-01-27.


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