Product Details

• Actors: David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Troy Bishop, Linda Blair, Courteney Cox Arquette
• Directors: Wes Craven
• Format: Import
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Icon
• DVD Release Date: November 10, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (592 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002Q9VP4I
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #18,069 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These days you got to have a sequel !, February 18, 2000

By	Jamie Bouadana (Rhymney UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scream (Dimension Collector's Series) (DVD)

The writing behind the film is excellent, the idea of teens imitating the movies with more twists than twister. An action packed slasher movie with mystery behind it all no imortal killer just messed up teenagers. It was impossible to guess who done the murders from the begining, you may think you know who is doing the killings then somthing happens and turns your eye to someone else. Overall a fantastic beginning to the best horror trilogy around. The DVD has a few interesting special features, go for this special edition rather than the standard DVD.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT MADE MY LIST OF GREATNESS!! ACCEPTABLE!, July 5, 2005

By	SHEREE WAITES "SLOMOTION" (D-TOWN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scream (Dimension Collector's Series) (DVD)

YES!!! I HAVE TO SURPRISINGLY SAY ,SCREAM PACKS PUNCH, IT HAD A WEIRD PLOT BUT ENTERTAINING VIEW KEEPING U ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT, AND THE KILLER KICKED A**! DIDNT TAKE 9 MINUTES FOR THE KNOFE TO COME DOWN, IT WAS ACTION PACKED, A BIT STUPID ON THE KILLERS STABBING THEMSELVES, A SCENE FROM SCOOBY-DOO, BUT THIS IS AN ENJOYABLE FEATURE NO DOUBT, GET URS HERE ON AMAZON TODAY A GREAT COLLECTORS ITEM, SAD TO SAY SCREAM 2 AND 3 SUCKED!! BIG-TIME!1

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scream Review, May 13, 2008

By	Manny M. Agah - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scream (Dimension Collector's Series) (DVD)

Scream is a suspenseful slasher with fine score by Marco Beltrami. The dialog and acting are good. Unfortunately, the 2.35:1 widescreen DVD is NOT enhanced for 16:9 TVs, but the picture and sound are very good, though.