Posters – Taglines – Soundtrack – Score – Locations – Masks used – Cast – Deaths – Trivia – Old Scream Website

---

S C R E A M
Year of release: 1996 | Written by Kevin Williamson | Directed by Wes Craven
Gross Revenue: $173,046,663 | Filming Dates 15th April 1996 – 8th June 1996

Starring : David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Rose Mcgowan, Jamie Kennedy, W.Earl Brown, Joseph Whipp, Liev Schreiber, Lawrence Hecht, Henry Winkler, Kevin Patrick Walls, Linda Blair

A crowd-pleasing smash hit with a sizzling cast — critics are calling Scream the hippest thriller of the year! After a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes a place where no one is safe…and everyone is suspect! That’s when an offbeat group of friends rally to unlock the town’s deadly secrets…and get caught up in a lively mix of thrills, chills, and surprises! Featuring all-star talent, including Drew Barrymore (Boys on the Side), Courteney Cox (TV’s Friends), Neve Campbell (The Craft), Skeet Ulrich (Touch), and David Arquette (Beautiful Girls), this strikingly original and entertaining motion picture delivers nonstop edge-of-your-seat excitement…and fun.

---

 

---

Don’t Answer The Phone. Don’t Open The Door. Don’t Try To Escape.

Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.

Someone’s Taken Their Love Of Scary Movies One Step Too Far!

Make Your Last Breath Count.

Now someone is victim and someone is a suspect

From The First Name In Suspense Comes The Last Word In Fear

Don’t Answer The Door, Don’t Leave The House, Don’t Answer The Phone, But Most Of All, Don’t SCREAM.

Now everybody is a victim and everybody is a suspect!

---

1. Youth of america
2. Whisper
3. Red Right Hand
4. Dont fear the Reaper
5. Artificial world
6. Better than me
7. Whisper to a scream
8. First cool hive
9. Bitter Pill
10. Schools out
11. Trouble in woodsboro
12. Drop dead Gorgeous

---

SCREAM: Original Soundtrack

My personal opinion is that this “Soundtrack Album” is a good listen, Since buying it back in the late 90`s i STILL listen to it to this day! Songs that arent annoying or too stupid or with lyrics that are either too fast to understand or too slow to wait to listen to. A few songs on there that not everyone notices in the movies though, not unless you really listen out for them!

---

---

SCREAM: Original Score By Marco Beltrami

A very good Score here. Casey’s Alternate death track is worth a listen, you have to be patient to listen to most of these though with “Build-up’s” Etc.

---

---

Mask Types used in the Films. (Info also on the ‘Masks’ page)

SCREAM – Fantastic Faces – KNB Mask

In the first movie two versions are used, the popular “Fantastic Faces” thats still sought after now and 25 years old, and the other version being the one made by KNB effects, just known simply by fans as the “KNB Mask”, Only 7 KNB types were made, and remember some were cut up!

What was this ‘KNB’ Mask then? .. Loyal fans WILL know of this type..

Wes had decided on a Fun World mask for the film, with time being limited and a deal not being ironed out to use the Fun World mask Wes had KNB Effects make a similar mask and even with that a deal had to be made and hammered out to make the use of the KNB mask legal with Fun World, On filming Himbrey’s and Casey’s scenes he wasn’t 100% happy with it and finally Fun World and the studio managed to strike a deal and the real one was used, although there wasn’t time to re-shoot Casey and Himbrey’s scenes so the KNB mask got an appearance after all. Only 7 masks existed of these and Nate Ragon owns a mask or two as well as Skip Crank!

Although many a fan out there have made replica’s since the KNB’s appearance back in 96, some are good, and some not so good. At the end of the day an Original is FAR better to own. It is known another fan has some good stuff from the first movie too. Mainly the remaining KNB’s i think..

Also, despite many people believing that the ‘KNB’ mask was only used in Principal Himbrey’s Death scene and Casey Becker’s scene you can also see it appear right after Sidney and Tatum are talking about Cotton on Tatum’s front porch, when the killer appears in the bushes a short distance away before the video store scene, Pause your DVD’s and Blu Rays and zoom in, it certainly looks like the KNB mask, also pause it in the store when Sidney and Tatum are shopping, after they walk off we see the killer again in the reflection of the fridge doors, again, that’s a KNB type!!!

---

---

Movie used Masks.. Kindly allowed permission to show here by Nate Ragon. Thanks Nate!

Below we have various masks as used in the first movie.

---

---

Neve Campbell : Sidney Prescott

A normal high school student who had to go through a painful event of her mother being raped and butchered a year previous, Sidney is tougher than she looks and has a sex mad boyfriend in which shes keeping him waiting on. Her best friend is Tatum.

---

David Arquette : Dewey Riley

A young keen Deputy of Woodsboro, “Dewey” is a name he got stuck with and he doesn’t always get taken seriously by the town or Tatum especially, he likes Gale just as she is. He just wants to find the killer who making his quiet town dangerous.

---

Courteney Cox : Gale Weathers

A more than ambitious reporter, Gale has made a good career out of her reporting. Following a monumental story has earnt her trouble from Sidney who thinks she doesn’t know the truth about her mothers case from the year before.

---

Jamie Kennedy : Randy Meeks

Randy is a Film freak, Especially Horror! He knows all the rules and what to expect and has a soft spot for Sid. He suspects Billy as an obvious serial killer to which Billy seriously disagrees in the video store where Randy is right at home.

---

Rose McGowan : Tatum Riley

Sister of Dewey! Tatum thinks her brother is a joke and doesn’t have much respect for him. She is also Best friend of Sid, she tries her best but can be unreliable for getting to Sid’s on time! She dislikes Billy after he is arrested and looses all respect for him, not that they talked much anyway.

---

Matthew Lillard : Stu Macher

Best mate of Billy, Stu loves life to the max so it seems, he dated Casey for a short time but broke up with her and started seeing Tatum. He loves parties and the opposite sex, but peer pressure could be a problem! A Zany lad who is always lively.

---

Skeet Ulrich : Billy Loomis

From the start Billy had a ”Hot and Heavy” relationship with Sid, which he seems to miss a lot due to Sid calming down after her mother’s murder.. He lives with his dad and misses his mother who walked out and left Hank after finding out he had an affair.

---

Drew Barrymore : Casey Becker

Originally a girlfriend of Stu, Casey started seeing Steven Orth. She likes horror movies and can name a few from memory that she has watched a few times, she dates Steve’ who is a jock at Woodsboro high. A nice innocent high school girl overall.

---

Kevin Patrick Walls : Steven Orth

A Woodsboro High Jock who started seeing Casey, After arranging to see Casey for a “Movies night” Steve unfortunately only makes it to the back garden after being caught by the GhostFace killer.
Too bad, he was gutted to not get to see Casey.

---

Liev Schreiber : Cotton Weary

Accused of murdering Sid’s mother, and knows he has been framed, trouble is that Sidney’s testimony put him in jail as she is sure he left her house on the night of the murder. He is trying to get his story straight with Gale who believes his side.

---

W. Earl Brown : Kenny Jones

Kenny is a cameraman for Gale and a bit too slow for her liking sometimes. He knows that Gale is a bit bitchy but puts up with it for some reason. He knows his stuff with camera’s but cant always get one without a delay.

---

Lawrence Hecht : Neil Prescott

The husband of Sids mother “Maureen” It seems that Neil was totally Clueless about her past at first and that her murder was a real eye opener for him, a year later and he’s a busy man in his job, he frequently has to go out the country, he loves his daughter dearly.

---

Joseph Whipp : Sheriff Burke

A Good Sheriff of Woodsboro who is used to the old days and not 100% sure what to expect of “Kids of today” A suspicious yet trustworthy officer of Woodsboro! His right hand man is Dewey and he just wants to find the killer/s.

---

C.W. Morgan : Hank Loomis

Mr Loomis seems an innocent father at first until we see Billy’s rage reveal info in which Hank was sleeping with Sid’s mother, not as innocent as he looks and is surprised when he finds out Billy went out for a ride without him knowing.

---

Henry Winkler : Principal Himbry

Principal Himbry is Head of Woodsboro high school and tries his best to keep it efficient and “Murder free” but when Student’s start running round the halls in Costumes he doesn’t like it. The student generation disgusts him in some ways and he thinks they should have more respect.

---

A Death a Year Previous : Maureen Prescott | Stabbed Numerous Times.

She gives Sidney an image that shes a “Perfect Mom” but all is not what it seems after the monumental story keeps having new chapters added, Previously an actress before going back to Woodsboro. And a model before that.

---

Death no.1 : Steven Orth | Gutted and mutilated.

While on his way for what he thought was going to be a nice night with Casey Becker he is ambushed and stuck in her back garden, only to be gutted shortly afterwards.

---

Death no. 2 : Casey Becker | Stabbed Numerous times and hung and gutted.

While planning a night of Scary Movie’s and getting popcorn ready she receives a call that leads to her missing her favourite “Scary movies! , She must have been gutted, Wait, she was.

---

Death no. 3 : Principal Himbry | Stabbed several times and hung.

After announcing that classes are suspended until further notice he doesn’t realize that he will be too.
Shouldn’t have called the janitor a “Little Shit” and then gone back to his office! Should have gone home early like the students!

---

Death no. 4 : Tatum Riley | Sliced on the arm and crushed by the garage door.

Tatum’s hate for Billy showed up like a light in a tunnel, she pays a price for this, not as smart as she thought she was.. He didn’t have a crush on her, but the garage door did!

---

Death no. 5 : Kenny the Cameraman | Throat Slashed.

Whilst thinking the van is safe he stays there keeping an eye on the kids, should have kept an eye around his van too!

---

Death no. 6 : Stu Macher | Stabbed Several Times and TV smashed on head/Fried.

Whilst bleeding in the kitchen Stu hears Billy get ambushed by Sidney, keen to stop her he tries his best but his electric personality becomes supercharged by his TV instead! Oh dear, isnt it Shocking?!

---

Death no. 7 : Billy Loomis | Stabbed, Hit with umbrella, and shot twice.

After supposedly dying in Stu’s parents room he comes back, then Sidney ambushes him with an umbrella, Dead? Not yet, his last scare is his last action!

---

Here’s some facts and trivia and maybe some things you didn’t know about SCREAM…

Was originally titled “Scary Movie”

Scream Was originally rated NC – 17. Among the scenes cut back to achieve an R rating were;
-Steve’s guts hanging there, instead of actually seeing them fall out and slide over his lap.
-When Casey’s gutted body is hanging from the tree and the camera pans toward it, the shot was sped up by 50 percent, because in real time you can too clearly see what was done to her. To speed it up, every second frame was removed.
-When Tatum’s head is crushed in the garage door, a few frames were cut out, after the impact.
-After Kenny’s throat is slit, there is a few seconds of footage where he bleeds profusely from his neck wound and looks up into the eyes of the killer.
-Three of the stabbings between Billy and Stu are only heard, not seen, except in the directors cut.
-After Stu has been stabbed by Billy a few times, his arm is dripping blood on the floor beside Neil Prescott. You can hear the sound effect in the theatrical version.

The deleted blood and gore snippets cut out of the theatrical release can be seen on the Director’s Cut. Oddly, in the Director’s Cut, the scene where Stu says “Cool you guys bring food, alright?” to Tatum and Sid, he makes a quick punching motion after saying that–in the Director’s Cut it is missing.

The shot of the killer running after Casey, catching her, and stabbing her in the chest was objected against strongly by the MPAA. To keep the shot in the film without an NC-17 Wes pleaded that it was the only take they did of it, which he admitted after the movie was released was a flat out lie, but he really wanted that shot in the final cut.

Other shots deleted from the final cut of the film were of Sidney smashing a painting over Ghost Face’s head and him tumbling down the staircase. And Sidney typing her address into the 911 computer message, which read 34 Elm Street. These are not in the Director’s Cut though they were filmed.

The script called for a ‘masked killer’ or ‘Ghost mask’ but did not say anything about what kind of mask or what covered the rest of the killer’s body. It was left up to Wes to decide that. Though the typical story goes that while on a location scouting, Wes found the mask in a house they were considering using. He instantly knew it was the one for Ghost Face–the true story as admitted by Wes on the Scream 2 commentary track is that it was Marianne Maddalena who found it, not him, though he laughed and said that whenever she wasn’t around he would tell the story as himself having found it. The black cloak that is worn with it was originally going to be white.

Was filmed all around Santa Rosa California and Sonoma County, Healdsburg.

The first scenes filmed were Drew Barrymore’s–it took 5 days.

Roger Jackson (voice of Ghost Face) was outside in the rain calling Drew (Casey Becker) when the killer was calling Casey in the movie. Other times he was upstairs in a bedroom calling Drew Barrymore downstairs.

A police officer stopped by the house where they were filming Drew’s scenes because he thought there really was a killer–since the production was using real phone lines, not dubbing dialogue in after filming was complete.

Nobody got to meet Roger Jackson (the phone voice of the killer) until after shooting wrapped, to keep the suspense higher between actors.

Drew Barrymore loves animals, and a few days before filming her scenes, she had read about a cat (other sources–including Wes Craven–say a dog) being intentionally lit on fire. Wes Craven kept reminding Drew of this, saying things like “Drew, I’m lighting the match” to keep her crying and screaming after several takes.

Marco Beltrami (music composer) was found by Wes’s assistant, when she was on the internet at Hollywood Cafe, asking about who’s a fresh new composer, and several people mentioned Marco. This was his first feature film.

Wes sometimes wore a hat while on the set that reads “I’m the Director That’s Why!”

The trivia question “Name the killer in Friday the 13th” which fools Casey was the same one writer Kevin Williamson used to get free drinks in a bar. If you could ask a question and stump the audience, you got free drinks. Everyone guessed “Jason” not remembering that it was his mother killing people in the original Friday the 13th.

The resemblance between Skeet Ulrich and Johnny Depp (whose first role was working with Wes Craven as ‘Glenn’ in the original Nightmare on Elm Street) is so uncanny that when Billy (Skeet) climbs through Sidney’s window, its almost an exact reference to Glenn climbing through Nancy’s in NOES.

Sidney’s closet door opening to block her bedroom door was scripted, but never once on location scouting did they find a house with a bedroom like that. They had to be build the entire wall with a closet door to fit the script.

The hat on top of Dewey’s computer has two big boobs on it, and the words “Boob Patrol”.

W. Earl Brown (Kenny the Cameraman) had worked with Wes Craven previously on Nightmare 7 as the morgue attendant, and in Vampire in Brooklyn as the cop with the dog.

Wes craven first worked with Linda Blair (who has a cameo as the obnoxious reporter who asks how it feels to be almost brutally butchered) on a film for NBC back in 1979, called “Stranger in the House” which was recently released on DVD re-titled “Summer of Fear”.

Joseph Whipp (Sheriff Burke) worked with Wes Craven previously on A Nightmare on Elm Street playing a cop as well.

The scene where Billy and Sidney meet in the school after he is released from jail, Neve Campbell had an emergency and had to leave the set early–Skeet was left doing his side of the camera shots talking to the first assistant standing in Neve’s place (off camera of course), Wes Craven stood there for a while, finally there was a microphone with an “X” for Neve’s eyeline placed there for Skeet to talk to.

Principal Himbry’s death scene came about through Bob Weinstein, who said there was too large a gap in between deaths. He wanted someone else to die. So Kevin Williamson chose Himbry. The scene actually helped because later when they receive the phone call at the party, that himbry is gutted and hung from the goal post, everyone goes to see. Kevin Williamson up until then did not have a reason why everyone would leave the party all at the same time.

Every time Sheriff Burke takes a drag on his cigarette, Dewey takes a lick of his ice cream cone.

On the set of Scream, Jamie Kennedy remarked to Kevin Williamson that if he really wanted to break a cliche, he’d kill a character in broad daylight. Jamie plays Randy, who is killed in broad daylight in Scream 2.

Kevin Williamson built the beer bong for the party scene, because Wes Craven had no clue what one was.

Despite what many people who have watched the garage scene where Tatum dies think; that it would not be strong enough to lift Tatum up–in actual fact the garage door WAS strong enough to lift the stunt double of Rose McGowan. Also noted is that she would be able to fit through the dog door. She could not, nor could many of the people on the set, cast and crew alike; They tried.

Not only is it ironic that Randy is watching TV (Halloween) and telling the character of Laurie what to do, while at the same time its exactly what he should do. It is further ironic that he isn’t saying “Laurie behind you” which is the character IN Halloween, but says instead “Jamie behind you” which is the actress real life name–Jamie Lee Curtis. Randy is also a Jamie for real life; Jamie Kennedy.

The scene where Randy yells at the TV, it was not Dane Farwell in the Ghost Face costume, but Skeet Ulrich (Billy) for that scene.

The van that Gale crashes into the tree was a stunt gone wrong. It was supposed to flip on its side and flip again and again until the bottom. Everyone thought that the stunt woman was as good as dead when it headed for the trees instead. She was unharmed.

Jamie Kennedy put a rock in his own shoe so that he could limp like he meant it, at the scene where Randy and Stu beg Sidney to let them in the house.

The stunt where Billy falls down the stairs was performed by Chris Doyle who played officer Richards in Scream 2.

After Dewey and Gale jump off the road as the speeding cars approach, David Arquette improvs the line “My whole life” when Gale (Courteney) asks if thats what he’s looking for. While she was referring to the car to their side, he was looking at her face as he answered. They are of course, now married and have a child.

The scene where Billy hits Stu with the phone was never scripted; the fake blood on the phone made it slippery and Skeet accidentally hit Matthew Lillard.

Matthew adlibbed the line “You hit me with the phone, dick!” and they kept it in.

Also adlibbed was Stu’s line “I always had a thing for ya Sid!” … after Matthew made that up, someone else (maybe Neve) decided to ad “In your dreams.”

Matthew Lillard added the line ‘Yeah your gonna love this one. It’s a Scream baby!” after the name changed from Scary Movie to Scream.

He also ad-libbed the line “Houston we have a problem here!” and “My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me!”

“A janitor is your superior” was an adlibbed line.

David Arquette improv’d the part where he screams with Sidney as she runs out the door of her home after being attacked for the first time.

Jamie Kennedy came up with adding the Jerry Lewis imitation about the liver in the mailbox.

When Gale is kicked into the pole and lands unconscious on Dewey, Wes lost track of how many takes they did; every time Courteney landed on David, they both would bust up laughing.

When Dewey comes out of the house and has a knife in his back, there were many takes done because the prop kept coming loose from his back.

When Sidney, wearing the Ghost Face costume, comes out of the closet and stabs Billy with the umbrella, Skeet Ulrich had padding on his chest because of open heart surgery as a child, he has a stainless steel wire on his chest. The first hit from the umbrella is faked pain and went according to plan. The second hit is very much real agony on his face, as it missed the padding and hit dead on the wire. A stunt woman, not Neve, was wearing the costume at the time.

It was Wes’s idea to film a shot of Dewey being thrown into an ambulance, just in case the audience loved him and wants to keep him (knowing a Scream 2 was eventual since it was planned as a trilogy)

While Wes and Kevin recorded commentary for Scream 1, Kevin was already on page 75 of his full script of Scream 2, and they were several weeks into pre-production.

The Janitor, Fred, at Woodsboro High, is played by none other than Wes Craven in the original Nightmare on Elm Street costume worn by Robert Englund.

Wes Craven has another cameo in the movie, wearing the Ghost Face mask at the scene where Casey punches him in the face as he comes through the window after her. Wes said he’ll leave that up to the stunt men from now on.

The cheerleader in the bathroom who insults Sidney behind her back was Leonora Scelfo who was at the time of that scene the real life girlfriend of Skeet Ulrich.

When Sid is watching the news, a cameo by Lisa Beach (casting agent) is as the first reporter seen onscreen.

Scream references Halloween with the line “Get in the car, drive down to the Mackenzies.” which was lifted from the first Halloween movie. In Halloween H20 (an uncredited Kevin Williamson did re-writes on it) had the line “Drive down to the Beckers; thus referencing Scream in the exact same manner.

Special Effects team KNB used about 50 gallons of blood making Scream.

The name Billy Loomis is a reference to Donald Pleasance’s character in Halloween; Sam Loomis, which in itself was a reference to Marion Crane’s lover in Psycho, also named Sam Loomis.

Melissa Joan Hart auditioned for the role of Sidney Prescott.

Selma Blair auditioned for the role of Sidney. She later had an uncredited cameo in Scream 2 as the girl talking to Cici on the phone.

Rebecca Gayheart auditioned for the role of Tatum Riley, but scheduling conflicts with her film “Somebody is Waiting” prevented her from landing the role. She later got a role in Scream 2 playing sister Murphy.

Charlotte Ayanna (Training Day, Kate & Leopold) was considered for the role of Tatum Riley. She later starred in Jawbreaker with Rose McGowan (who played Tatum) and Rebecca Gayheart (who also auditioned for the role of Tatum.

Being a favorite of writer Kevin Williamson, Molly Ringwald was offered the role of Sidney Prescott, but turned it down, saying she’d rather not be playing a High School student at the age of 27.

David Arquette was originally auditioning for the role of Billy, but he decided he would rather play Dewey, that it fit him better.

Kevin Patrick Walls who plays Steven Orth was one of the final contenders for the role of Billy, before it went to Skeet Ulrich.

The credit of “No thanks whatsoever to: The Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board” was in reference to the difficulty of finding a location, securing it, and then *after* they found out what was being filmed there, they changed their minds, upsetting production schedules. The scene in the script they most objected to was when Sid, Billy, Randy, Tatum, and Stu are sitting around having lunch by the fountain. They didn’t like teenagers talking about bodies being emptied and gutted out. Ironically, One of the peope really complaining saying they this movie was showing the wrong things to teenagers and setting bad examples, was later arrested for beating his wife. Another scene complained about was the “foul-mouthed principle” scene where Himbry swears at the students wearing the Ghost Face masks. The high school itself wanted Scream to film there, the kids signed a petition, the community wanted it filmed there, but 5 people or so on a board decided for everyone.

When asked what their favourite Scary Movie was, cast and crew answered:

Wes Craven- Hitchcock films, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, David Cronenberg films, and Alien
Neve Campbell – The Shining, and the Changeling
Dan Arredondo – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Courteney Cox – Rosemary’s Bay
Cathy Konrad – Friday the 13th Part 1
Jamie Kennedy – Salem’s Lot
Marianne Maddalena – The Birds, Exorcist
W. Earl Brown – Halloween
Kevin Williamson – Halloween (his favourite movie ever)

On Scream 1’s poster, the tagline says “Someone has taken their love of Scary Movies one step too far!” and of course Billy had a love of Scary Movies. In the middle of a serious conversation with Sidney, he mentions that she is like Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs. He talks to her about how their relationship is like “The Exorcist” … he is not as out there as Randy, but his love of horror is just as strong, but far subtler. On Scream 2’s poster it reads “Someone has taken their love of sequels one step to far!” and throughout Scream 2 it was apparent that Mickey loved sequels, being one of the few people in the classroom to strongly defend all sequels, saying they were better than the original even when most of the class disagrees. Scream 3’s poster reads “Someone has taken their love of trilogies one step to far!” Well Roman is the director of the 3rd movie in the series, thus a trilogy, he kinda fits the bill as a fan of trilogies.

Scream cost an estimated 14 million dollars to make (many sources list 15, but that is reportedly untrue), a very modest amount for a Studio movie. Scream opened to $6.4 million on 1,413 screens December 20 1996, and went on to make back over 103 million domestically, and almost 60 million internationally. In rentals it made over 39 million as well.

---

Here’s some facts and trivia and maybe some things you didn’t know about SCREAM…

Pictures and Info from the old Dimension Films Scream Site.

©1996 Dimension Films. All Rights Reserved

The old content can be viewed from internet archives from THIS LINK!

The sleepy little town of Woodsboro just woke up screaming. There’s a killer in their midst who’s seen a few too many scary movies. Suddenly, nobody is safe, as the psychopath stalks victims, taunts them with trivia questions, then rips them to bloody shreds. It could be anybody… Sidney, the quiet high school beauty with an ugly past… Billy, her faithful boyfriend with a frustrated sex life… Tatum, her cute best friend with a answer for everything… Casey, the lovely blonde who knows her thrillers… Geeky Randy, the scary movie fanatic… Stuart, the wild partier… Gale, the overeager TV reporter… even Dewey, the syrupy-sweet police officer. The only hope is to stay one step ahead of this crazed slasher–know your trivia. The clues are there; are you good enough to see them?

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

©1996 Dimension Films. All Rights Reserved

---

Wes Craven Interview

Director Wes Craven’s imagery and storytelling has entranced and haunted audiences worldwide. Craven has written and helmed such films as “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare,” nominated for Best Feature at the Independent Feature Project West’s 1995 Spirit Awards, “The People Under the Stairs,” “Shockers,” the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Swamp Thing.” Craven also directed “Vampire in Brooklyn,” “The Serpent and the Rainbow” and “Deadly Friend.” Craven made his film debut with two seminal genre films: “Last House on the Left” and “The Hills Have Eyes,” both of which he wrote, directed and edited. For television, Craven helped create and produce the series “Nightmare Cafe”; directed the telefilms “Night Visions,” “A Stranger in Our House,” “Invitation to Hell,” “Chiller” and “Casebusters.” He aso directed seven of the most frequently repeated 1980’s “Twilight Zone” episodes. Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Wheaton College in Illinois. He holds a Master’s degree in writing and philosophy from John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Before beginning his film career, Craven worked in a wide variety of jobs, from college humanities professor to New York cab driver. It is the wealth of experiences gathered in these early years that informs the complex, startling and often funny humanity of his terrifying films.

©1996 Dimension Films. All Rights Reserved

---

You see it a thousand times, in every slasher movie ever made… A kitten runs down a dark alley….or… There’s a knock at the door…or… A stranger needs a ride… You’re screaming, “Don’t do it!”, trying to save their sorry butts.

But do movie victims ever listen to you? No. It’s because you’re not specific! “Don’t do it!” simply isn’t enough. You gotta learn to yell out the correct warning. Fortunately for you, this easy exercise will help you improve. First, turn off the lights, to simulate a darkened theater. Then, for each visual clue, choose the Right Warning. Choose a Wrong Warning, and you’re Dead Meat. Choose every Right Warning, and maybe, just maybe, you’re ready to see.

A STAB game existed and users could play it if they had
“Netscape 3.0 and a live audio plugin”
Obviously it wasnt archived as such from the source i got all the other info from.Sorry.

©1996 Dimension Films. All Rights Reserved

---

Histories Nastiest Killers

History’s Nastiest Screen Killers
10 Who Make Us Afraid of the Dark

---

SCREAM
This strong, silent type, from Woodsboro, CA loves those slasher movies. Challenge this…this thing…to movie trivia, and you better be ready to spill your guts. Only talks to victims by phone. Wears black head to toe, with a mask you better hope you never see. Favors 8″ chef’s knife, but electric appliances are OK. Look for high school attendance to drop when this character’s in town.

---

Michael Myers – HALLOWEEN
Michael, what are we going to do with you? This guy started young, at age 5. Instead of trick or treating with the other kids, he thought he’d…oh…kill his sister. Since then, Halloween has always been a special day for Mike. Hasn’t shaken his love of masks. Does a lot of lurking. Rope, knives, he’s expert with them all. You wanted a scary Halloween? You got it.

---

Dr. Hannibal Lecter – SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Hannibal the Cannibal…urp…never met a man he didn’t like. This brilliant psychiatrist plays manipulative mind games on his victims and captors alike just to work up an appetite. Throw him in jail and he treats it like a theme restaurant. When he says “I’ll rip your face off” it’s simply a serving suggestion. Enlisted by the cops as a profane profiler he feasts on his role as the puppetmaster.

---

Freddy Krueger – NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Freddy’s got a skin problem. He was toasted a while back, and he’s a mess. But fashion has offered a way out. Long, curved knives that serve as finger nails. Plus a funny little hat. Still, Freddy’s a bit shy, so he gets you in your sleep. Just look for the those telltale parallel cuts–5 deep ones–to see if Freddy’s back. He never really dies. So yes, he will be back. Sleep tight.

---

Jason – FRIDAY THE 13TH
Jason wears a hockey mask. So maiming and slashing come naturally. But he goes for murder too. So don’t ask him to come skating. He prefers playing with babysitters, the way cats play with mice. Of course, Jason had his 9th life a while ago, and he ain’t tired yet. Watch your back–he is.

---

Mickey and Mallory – NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Killing is an crowd-pleasing art-form for these two. Her parents got it first. From then on it was all gravy. More killing. High speed chases. Adoring crowds. Oh sure, some prison. But then came talk show performances. Daring escapes. Kinda makes you wonder. But don’t daydream too long. They’ve been seen in your neighborhood, and they have a reputation to uphold.

---

John Doe – SE7EN
This guy deserves some credit for memorizing those 7 deadly sins. But it’s all downhill from there. Highly creative murders. Stalks victims. Trying to purify the world. Sure has a messy way of doing it. Turns out this guy’s no saint. Go figure.

---

Copycat – COPYCAT
Just when you think you’ve seen it all…here it comes again. You got your Jack the Ripper…you got your Boston Strangler…this guy is mimicking every famous serial killer that ever lived. He’s got his reasons, though, and they have to do with the female psychologist who just happens to specialize in his specialty–serial murder. Ain’t love grand!

---

Father Jonas – PROM NIGHT
It’s not easy being locked away for half a lifetime. Even for a man of the cloth. You get out, and you’ve had years to plan some gruesome murders. And there’s no time to lose! It’s those darn kids–always sinnin’ and sinnin’. Fortunately, there are lots of gory ways to clean things up, and Father Jonas uses as many as he can. Crucifixes, burnings, explosions. Can’t keep a bad man down.

---

Dr. Robert Elliott – DRESSED TO KILL
What is it with psychiatrists? Hmmm? This dude Dr. Elliott’s got some real issues. What foundation garments to wear under dresses, for starters. Has some killer outfits he puts to good use. Never step into an empty elevator with him, because you’re gonna press his buttons, you just know it. Watch out when your hour’s up.

©1996 Dimension Films. All Rights Reserved

---

Roger L Jackson : The Voice of GhostFace®!

Jackson is known for his role as the killer’s voice in the Scream slasher trilogy. He has also appeared in animated films and television programs like Disney’s The Book of Pooh as well as Nickelodeon’s The Wild Thornberrys Movie. He also does the voice of the maniacal monkey genius Mojo Jojo & the Rowdyruff Boy, Butch on The Powerpuff Girls. He does return for Scream 4 and has talked recently to Fun World.

GhostFace’s Weapon never changes in the trilogy and always proves to be a vital item to whoever has it.. In the news van we see a good view of it in full use on Randy Meeks, He shouldn’t have commented on Billy, otherwise he may have survived the Windsor College murders. In Scream 2 and 3 we see small changes in the costume which aren’t noticeable to people who dont really look for them, And although GhostFace`s Weapon of choice does stay the same he does resort to using a Frying Pan on “Stone” Leaving the knife in stones back!

---

Wes Craven is the famous Horror Legend im sure everyone’s heard of,he gave us such films as “Last house on the left,The people under the stairs,Nightmare on Elm Street,Shocker,The Scream Trilogy,Red Eye,and many others,he created the Freddy Krueger character and based it more on “His Freddy” in New Nightmare which was released in 1994.

Wes is at this time completing 25/8 Which was the working title, it is now named “My Soul To Take” with visual effects and the score which is by “Marco Beltrami” (Scream Trilogy score) among many others.
The info below comes from Wikipedia.

---

Early life

Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Caroline (née Miller) and Paul Craven.He had a strict Baptist upbringing.Craven earned an undergraduate degree in English and Psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois, and a masters degree in Philosophy and Writing from Johns Hopkins University.Prior to landing his first job in the film industry as a sound editor for a post-production company in New York, Craven briefly taught English at Westminster College and was a humanities professor at Clarkson University in Potsdam.

Personal life

Craven’s first marriage to Bonnie Broecker produced two children, Jonathan (born 1965) and Jessica Craven (born 1968). Jonathan is a writer and director with a few credits to his name. Jessica is a singer/songwriter in the group the Chapin Sisters. The marriage ended in 1970. In 1982, Craven married Millicent Eleanor Meyer. However, the two divorced, according to Joe Eszterhas’s book American Rhapsody, after she began an affair with actress Sharon Stone. Also according to the book, on the day the divorce was finalized, Stone sent Craven a dozen black roses. Although Craven has never publicly commented on his wife’s lesbian affair, he has stated in interviews that the marriage dissolved after he discovered it “was no longer anything but a sham.”

Directing and writing career

Craven’s works tend to share a common exploration of the nature of reality. A Nightmare on Elm Street, for example, dealt with the consequences of dreams in real life. New Nightmare “brushes against” (but doesn’t quite break) the fourth wall by having actress Heather Langenkamp play herself as she is haunted by the villain of the film in which she once starred. At one point in the film, we see on Wes Craven’s word processor a script he has written, which includes the exact conversation he just had with Heather — as if the script is being written as the action is unfolding. The Serpent and the Rainbow portrays a man who cannot distinguish between nightmarish visions and reality. In Scream, the characters frequently reference horror films similar to their situations, and at one point Billy Loomis tells his girlfriend that life is just a big movie. This concept was emphasized in the sequels, as copycat stalkers reenact the events of a new film about the Woodsboro killings occurring in Scream. Scream included a scene mentioning the well-known Richard Gere gerbil urban legend. Craven stated that he received calls from agents telling him that if he leaves that scene in, he would never work again.Craven was also set to direct Beetlejuice but dropped out to co-write and executive produce the third outing for Freddy Krueger. “The” Elm Street is located in Potsdam,NY (a small town just south of the Canadian border).

Awards and nominations

During his career, Wes Craven won eight awards and received three nominations. He was nominated for Best Director for Scream at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA in 1997.

In 1985, his horror film: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” garnered the ‘Critic’s Award’ at the “Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival”.

In 1992, the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film presented him the Pegasus Audience Award for the thriller The People Under the Stairs. His Fantasporto won the International Fantasy Film Award for Best Screenplay while the Best Film Award went to his movie New Nightmare, the final A Nightmare on Elm Street movie. He was also nominated for Best Film for the movie Shocker in 1990.

The Gérardmer Film Festival granted him the Grand Prize in ’97, for the movie Scream.

In 1977, he won the ‘Prize of the International Critics’ Jury’ in the “Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival” for his film The Hills Have Eyes.

Completing his Nightmare Trilogy

Though there have been seven different Nightmare on Elm Street films (eight if one includes the crossover Freddy vs. Jason), only two have been directed by Craven. He has said in several interviews and discussions that he considers only his two films to be accurate depictions of his creation. For years, it has been rumored that he would make one more film, essentially completing his trilogy. However Craven was involved in the third Nightmare film Dream Warriors as producer, aiming to make the third film the last. His ideas were largely rejected, and used in his New Nightmare, ten years later. Craven will not participate in a remake of the original, scheduled for an April, 2010 release.

---

Kevin Williamson is the original writer of Scream and Scream 2,he had a treatment for Scream 3 but had to hand it over to Ehren Krueger as he was overloaded with work at the time,he Also starred with Liev Schreiber in Scream 2 in one of the early Scenes with him being the host of the “Current Edition” program that Hallie switches to.
Kevin is at this time writing Scream 4,and had a deadline of January 4th 2010 to get it finished,he is also busy with “The Vampire Diaries”.

---

Early years

Williamson was born in New Bern, North Carolina, the younger son of Lillie Faye (née Pittman), a storyteller, and Ottis Wade Williamson, a fisherman.He lived in the neighboring coastal community of Oriental, but before he started school his family moved to Aransas Pass, Texas, later relocating to Fulton, Texas, both near Corpus Christi. Williamson’s family returned to Oriental before Kevin’s high school years. Obsessed from a young age with movies, especially those of Steven Spielberg, he applied to New York University’s film school and was accepted but because he could not afford the tuition, he attended a school closer to home, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he took a B.A. in theatre arts.

Career in television

After graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Though he landed a part on the soap opera Another World in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles the next year where he had small parts on In Living Color, a Roger Corman film, Hard Run, and in music videos. While taking classes on screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle which was bought by a production company in 1995 and put on the shelf.

The genesis of Scream

Inspired by the March 9, 1994 episode of the newsmagazine Turning Point on a serial killer in Gainesville, Florida, who murdered college students, Williamson wrote a horror movie script, originally titled “Scary Movie”. Its characters had seen many classic horror movies (e.g. A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween) and knew all the clichés. Miramax bought it for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995. Directed by Wes Craven, the film, renamed Scream, was a smash with critics, who praised its intelligent and witty script which would win Williamson the Saturn Award. Costing only $15.3 million to make, it sold $103 million in tickets in the U.S.

More high school peril

Williamson’s next film was also about high schoolers in peril. I Know What You Did Last Summer, based on a 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, had four friends accidentally running over a man, panicking, dumping the body, and going on with their lives, only to be punished one year later. Duncan was appalled at her novel being turned into a horror film and making sport of murder. The film’s producers, Columbia Pictures, also annoyed Miramax by advertising it as “from the creator of Scream” so Miramax rushed into production Scream 2, also written by Williamson, and filed a lawsuit against Columbia. Scream 2 would also be a hit and would spawn a third film, Scream 3, as the end part of the Scream trilogy. Williamson wrote another in this genre, The Faculty, characterized as “Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club.”

Williamson is reportedly working on a fourth Scream film, but it has yet to be announced when the film might be completed or released and whether or not he will continue work on a proposed fifth and sixth installments.

More horror

Williamson created a mid-season replacement for The WB network called Glory Days, set in a coastal community in Washington state, where very weird things were happening–shades of Twin Peaks, it seemed. It debuted as a mid-season replacement in January 2002; only ten episodes were produced.

Williamson wrote another script for Wes Craven, Cursed, which was released in 2005 and starred Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, and Shannon Elizabeth. The film suffered much script and scheduling difficulties during production. Consequently, it did not perform well at the box office.

Cursed, like some other Williamson works, includes a gay sub-plot.

2005 saw the release of his newest horror film, Venom, about a group of teens stalked by a crazed killer in the bayous of Louisiana. Williamson is listed as a producer for Venom, but not as a writer.

---