As Halloween creeps nearer, one question is on everyone’s mind: what’s your favorite scary movie? For many, the answer is simple, Scream. Debuting in 1996, Scream turned the slasher genre on its head and created a franchise that has rivaled the likes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Friday the 13th, and is now a staple of annual Halloween movie marathons.
Based on a screenplay by screenwriter Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, the Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette-starring franchise entered the ‘90s by introducing Ghostface, a masked murderer terrorizing the town of Woodsboro, California. Blending comedy with horror, and paying homage to those horror icons that came before it, Scream was a box office and critical success that went on to spawn a total of six films – Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000), and Scream 4 (2011), as well as Scream (2022), which introduced
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