SCREAM

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 13^th?” 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…