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Movie Overview
Cast
Neve Campbell
Courteney Cox
Drew Barrymore
Director
Wes Craven
MPAA Rating
R
Scream (1996)
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OFCS Rating: 94% Fresh
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3.5/5
"It's a... well... a scream."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
"The movie is less concerned with explaining motivations than it is with dismantling the social mechanisms which produce them."
Philadelphia City Paper
Cynthia Fuchs
72/100
"
Scream
is so hip and irreverent that you almost forget it's a slasher movie. Almost."
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
3/4
"It breaks new ground, and hopefully, it opens us up to new formulas and creative situations in these movies."
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
7/10
"Its commercial success was well-justified."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Dragan Antulov
3.5/4
"A pointedly knowledgeable, frequently funny satire on slasher conventions and a terrifically scary, joyously suspenseful horror picture."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
3/4
"
Scream
is a rarity: a horror movie spoof that succeeds almost as well at provoking scares as laughs."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
3/4
"a nineties-style teenage slasher movie with just enough tongue-in-cheek understanding of its own silliness to make it gruesomely fun without being insulting"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
5
"Kevin Williamson has managed to make a movie that is both genuine scary movie and arch parody of scary movies."
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
3.5/4
"The film was written by Kevin Williamson, and his screenplay is smart as it is hip."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
3/4
"Wes Craven has matured past his old horror film days."
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
9/10
"
Scream
cleverly plays with movie conventions and the audience's expectations so that we're kept constantly guessing."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
3.5/4
"Ironically, the predictability is actually one of the film's virtues."
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
4/5
"The film opens with one of the best, most intense, most unexpected opening sequences I’ve ever seen then rips on for another ninety minutes or so, rarely flagging in terms of pace."
Mike Bracken's Horror Films
Mike Bracken
4/5
"O que há de mais interessante neste filme (e o que o torna tão divertido) é o fato dele ser capaz de criticar e, ao mesmo tempo, seguir todas as regras básicas do gênero."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
4/5
"Witty, tightly structured, and often effective as a straight horror film."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
8/10
"It is the cream of a pretty bad crop"
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
5/10
"Self-knowing badness is in fact badness; it might actually be worse than just regular old badness because it is, in addition to everything else, smug."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
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