SCREAM
PLOT
Casey Becker, home alone, answers her ringing phone. The man on
the other end says he must have dialed the wrong number and hangs up. Soon
after he calls again, making flirtatious comments and asking about her
boyfriend. At first Casey plays along, but soon the man starts making
threatening and sadistic comments. From there, he goes on to reveal that her boyfriend
is tied up on the back patio. Now in control the caller turns the situation in
to an extreme horror trivia contest. If Casey answers the trivia questions
right, she and her boyfriend, Steven get to live. If she fails to answer
correctly, they die. As a starter she answers the “warm-up question” correctly.
Not impressed, the caller then asks her a trick question: “Who is the killer in
Friday the 13th?” Casey quickly answers saying the killer is Jason
Voorhees, only to be proven wrong, Jason’s mother, Pamela Voorhees, was the
film’s first killer. Jason didn’t become the killer until Part 2. The caller
than tells Casey that she’s earned a bonus question but she has just ended her
boyfriend’s life. A shocked Casey then hurries to turn the patio lights on, and
finds Steven has been disemboweled.
The caller promises Casey another round, but Casey instead
refuses to answer the question. A chair then smashes the patio door windows, as
Casey runs out of the house armed with a kitchen knife. Right after she is
caught by a cloaked figure in a mask and is stabbed in the chest. Now on the
ground, she is strangled while attempting to call her parents. With her last
ounce of strength Casey takes off the killer’s mask and sees his face.
Surprised by this revelation, the killer’s identity is not shown onscreen.
Meanwhile, as Casey’s parents return home they receive their
daughter’s panicked phone call, only to hear muffled moans on the other end.
Instructing his wife to go to the neighbors’ house, Casey’s father is guided
outside by her frantic screaming, as they spot a gutted Casey hanging from a
tree in the back garden.
The movie then cuts to Sidney Prescott, who is attempting to
cope with the anniversary of her mother’s brutal rape and murder. The following
night while home and alone, the killer invades her house and attempts to kill
her. After a short but intense struggle the killer disappears. Then Billy, her
boyfriend, suddenly comes through Sidney’s bedroom
window. At first Sidney is
relieved to see Billy but after a cell phone falls out of his pocket she is
tempted to believe he was the one who called and attacked her. She runs
downstairs and opens the front door, only to run into Dewey, the Sheriff’s
Deputy. Dewey then has Billy arrested and they all head to the Police Station.
Sidney tries to
sort through the trauma of being attacked and, in reaction to circumstantial
evidence, unwillingly points an accusatory finger at her boyfriend Billy
Loomis. She decides to stay at the home of her friend Tatum Riley, while under
the watchful eye of Tatum’s brother, Dwight, nicknamed Dewey, the Sheriff’s
Deputy. While there, she again receives a phone call from the Killer, who tells
her she made a grave mistake by thinking Billy Loomis was the Killer. He ends
their conversation by saying she will find out who the Killer is, soon enough…
Already under a considerable amount of stress, Sidney is forced
to deal with the scandalization of her own attack by ambitious tabloid
television newswoman Gale Weathers, who was the author of a tell-all book
revealing the promiscuous affair between Sidney’s mother
and convicted killer, Cotton Weary. School is soon canceled as a precautionary
measure leaving the building temporarily abandoned. The school principal is
then killed while still inside the school when he was distracted.
Meanwhile, in the local video store, Stu Macher and Randy Meeks
are discussing the Killer’s identity with Randy openly stating that Billy could
be the Killer, albeit having a stupid motive with wanting to kill his girlfriend.
Stu disagrees, as Randy then continues saying that, in theory, “EVERYBODY’S A
SUSPECT!” Right after, Billy comes over and shuts up the startled Randy before pointing
out that Randy could just as well be the Killer, due to his intricate horror
film knowledge. Later that night everybody begins to show up for the party that
Stu had suggested they hold in honor of getting out of school so early on. At
first the party is fine as Sidney and Tatum show up, soon after so does Dewey
and Gale. The party soon takes a turn for the worst afterwards as Tatum goes
down to the garage to get beer, only to be cornered by the Killer, who slashes
her left arm, as she attempts to escape. Spotting any opportunity to get out
through the pet flap in the automatic garage door, she tries to escape, but the
Killer stops her short by turning the door on, sending her to the top and
crushing her neck.
Meanwhile, Gale and Kenny watch the video from the video tape
she hid inside the house, sensing the potential for a major story scoop.
However, due to the distance from the house to the van, the video feed is
experiencing a 30 second delay. She then exits the van and is joined by Deputy
Dewey.
Back at the party, as Sidney tries to
find Tatum, Billy suddenly shows up at the party and the two of them go
upstairs. The partygoers soon receive word of the principal’s death, and head
to the school football field to gaze upon his corpse, leaving a select few,
including Sidney and Randy, alone in the house.
Outside, Dewey and Gale narrowly escape death, as they evade the
partygoers speeding car, on their way to the school’s football field. Having
landed below Gale, Dewey then kisses her.
Upstairs, after having made love to one another, Sidney watches in
horror as Billy is stabbed by the Killer, forcing her to run out of the room to
escape. She attempts to climb out the window, but is forced out by the Killer
pushing her out in attempt to mame or kill her, she lands on the covered boat
and recovers only to discover her best friend, Tatum’s body wedged in the pet
door dead. She holds her mouth in disbelief and descends down to the driveway.
Randy, still watching television, narrowly avoids death when the Killer walks
up behind him, only to be interrupted by Sidney’s screams,
who has found Tatum’s body. Giving pursuit, the Killer leaves Randy unnoticed.
Inside Gale’s news van, her cameraman Kenny allows Sidney inside.
With the camera’s delay, Kenny and Sidney now witness the Killer’s attempt to
murder Randy. Wanting to warn him, Kenny steps outside the van, but has his
throat slashed by the Killer.
Gale and Dewey, having discovered the car belongs to Neil
Prescott, return to the house. They believe Neil is the Killer and has come to
the party to continue his spree. Both attacked after having spread out, Gale
attempts to leave the scene in her van but finds a dead Kenny, and drives off
the road and crashes to avoid hitting Sidney. Dewey, who went inside the house,
is now seen coming out again, falling down to reveal a knife in his back.
Running back inside, Sidney finds
Randy and Stu, who are presented as the only remaining suspects. When the both
accuse each other of being the Killer, Sidney does not know who to trust, and
slams the door in their faces.
A seriously injured Billy then appears, falling down the stairs.
Sidney helps him up and gives him
a gun for safety. Billy then opens the door and allows Randy back inside, who
states Stu has gone mad. Billy, still holding the gun, responds “we all go a
little mad sometimes,” and then shoots Randy in the shoulder, who falls to the
floor. A shocked Sidney is then
shown that Billy’s blood wound is in fact corn syrup, a common horror movie
practice for blood, when Sydney suddenly
turns to find Stu, who unveils a voice-changing box.
Finally the truth is revealed. The murders were planned and
carried out by both Billy and Stu, as a means for getting revenge on Sidney’s mother.
Billy informs Sidney that her
mother had an affair with his father, Hank Loomis (C.W. Morgan), and that this was
the reason for the demise of Billy’s parents’ marriage. He then goes on to
state it was him who murdered Sidney’s mother and not Cotton Weary, who was
convicted of the murder based upon Sidney’s testimony. It turns out Billy’s
rage over his parents splitting up because of the affair with Sidney’s mother
turned him into a murderer. Stu and Billy also reveal that they have abducted Sidney’s father
and it was his cell phone they used to make their ominous phone calls, and that
they planned to murder Sidney and her
father by shooting him in the head and making it seem as if he committed
suicide after committing the murders.
Stu and Billy then stab each other in non-vital places to make
it seem like they were victims of Mr. Prescott’s emotional and murderous
breakdown while getting away with committing the murders. Things begin to fall
apart though, as Billy stabs Stu too deeply and he begins to bleed profusely. Then
Gale appears and distracts both of them.
Sidney then
manages to escape, while they’re dealing with Gale. After Stu and Billy deal
with Gale, Sidney stabs
Billy with an umbrella, who then falls on the floor, seemingly dead. Stu then
reappears, trying to fight Sidney before she
pushes a television set over onto his head. As Sidney is
checking to see that Billy is dead, Randy reveals he is injured but still
alive, crediting it to the fact that he is a virgin. Also injured but still
alive, Billy gets up and punches Randy to the floor. He begins to choke Sidney to death,
trying to stab her as well, before being down by Gale.
Randy, now back on his feet, warns Sidney and Gale – that according
to horror movie law he’ll “come back to life” for one last scene. To their
surprise, Billy opens his eyes and makes a grunt, only to be shot in the head
by Sidney right after, finally
killing him. Sidney’s father
comes out of the closet due to the commotion. Sidney unties
him, and Randy assists her.
Dewey, who also appears to have survived, is them shown being
carried away on a gurney. Gale then makes an impromptu report on the events of
the previous night as the authorities finally arrive on the crime scene and the
movie comes to a close…
