Audiences have come to expect no less than a thrilling, terrifying ride from Wes Craven. Now, the creator of such chilling films as A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Serpent and the Rainbow was moving into a new genre — the thriller. With Scream, Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson ambitiously crafted their own personal valentine to suspense, taking the classic elements of the genre they know inside and out and reinventing them with new substance and a clever, smart, sophisticated spin.

Sidney (Neve Campbell) has more than her share of teenage angst to cope with. Her mom was murdered a year ago, her dad is perpetually away on business, and her boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) is pressuring her to go all the way. As if that weren't enough, a brilliant serial killer has begun to terrorize Sidney's quiet hometown, including her high school classmate Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore). With the calculated genius of a perfect predator, the killer is using his love of scary movies to turn the town upside down – taking everything he knows about the genre to trick his victims, outwit the police and throw his pursers off base. Now, no one is safe — and everyone is a suspect.

Sidney's best friend Tatum (Rose McGowan), Tatum's boyfriend Stu (Matthew Lillard) and class clown Randy (Jamie Kennedy) see the mayhem as just another excuse to party and rent scary movies/ But Sidney is further disturbed by the arrival of the relentless TV tabloid reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), who cashed in on her mother's murder by writing a tell-all book. The local deputy, Tatum's naive older brother Dewey (David Arquette) sets out to investigate the crimes, but can't help being a little distracted by the alluring Weathers. It'll be up to Sidney to stop the killer from killing again. Solving the mystery is going to be murder.

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