If you like thriller/slasher movies, Scream is the one for you. The movie Scream is a 1996 horror/mystery. The film follows Sydney and her friend group. The movie starts with a girl named Casey, who was home alone, getting a phone call from an unknown number but still deciding to answer it. When she answers, a guy starts asking her about horror movies but after a couple of minutes, Casey starts to get freaked out so she hangs up the phone. The guy calls back and threatens to kill her. When Casey hangs up the phone again, Ghost Face, the killer, pops up and stabs her. She tries to run away but it doesn’t work. When Casey died, Ghost Face took her body and hung it on a tree for her parents to find when they got home.
The next day when Sydney gets to school she sees that it is surrounded by reporters talking about some murder. She doesn’t know what happened until her best friend Tatum tells her that Casey was brutally murdered last night. The scene cuts to them at lunch with their friends Billy, Stu, and Randy. Billy is dating Sydney and Stu is dating Tatum. The boys are talking about how the whole school is getting interviewed and the questions that were asked. Randy was saying how the cops were asking if they knew how to hunt because Casey’s body was gutted. Stu started to say that the killer couldn’t possibly be a woman because no woman could ever do something like that.
When school ended and Sydney got home, she got on the phone with Tatum. Tatum told Sydney that she would have a sleepover with her because Sydney’s dad was out of town and she didn’t want her to be alone. Sydney agreed but fell asleep before Tatum got there to pick her up. Sydney was woken up by 2 phone calls. The first was from Tatum, but the second was a man asking her about horror movies. Sydney thought it was Randy and went along with it. When Sydney figures out it’s not Randy she freaks out and taunts him. He doesn’t like that so he comes out of where he’s hiding and tries to stab her and misses. Sydney gets up the stairs to her room when all of a sudden Billy comes through her window. He tells her he heard yelling and was worried and tried to hug her but his burner phone fell out of his pocket. Sydney sees that and thinks that Billy is Ghost Face and runs downstairs where the cops are waiting for her. Billy ended up being detained while Sydney was questioned.
The police went through Billy’s phone history but found nothing so they let him go in the morning. When Billy saw Sydney at school, he tried to get back on good terms with her but she ran away to the bathroom where someone was dressed up as Ghost Face. She got so scared that the principal decided that it would be for the best if that school was shut down for a couple of days. Stu took that as an opportunity to throw a party for the whole school to celebrate no more school.
Sydney and Tatum went to the store to buy snacks for the party and then headed there. When they got to the party, Tatum went to sit with Stu and Sydney followed. After a while, Stu asked Tatum to get him a beer from the basement. When Tatum was in the basement she saw that Ghost Face was there. She thought that it was just someone messing with her and tried laughing it off. Ghost Face started to try to kill her so she ran away trying to go through the dog door but didn’t fit. Ghost Face made the garage door go up and squished Tatum to death.
Meanwhile, upstairs Billy had just arrived at the party and was talking with Stu and Sydney. He asked Sydney to go upstairs with him where they had sexual intercourse. Downstairs, Randy and all the party guests were watching a movie when they got a call. Randy picked up the phone and the person on the other side told him that their principal had just gotten killed and hung above the football field. When he told the guests, they decided that it would be a good idea to go and look at the body so they all left Randy alone in the living room.
With Sydney and Billy finished doing their business, they were just talking when all of a sudden a Ghost Face popped out of nowhere and stabbed Billy. Sydney ran away and managed to get out a window and ran to the van in front of the house where Gale’s (a news reporter) cameraman was. At that point, Ghost Face managed to catch up and kill the cameraman. Sydney runs into the house when Randy and Stu run up to her blaming each other for being Ghost Face. Sydney can’t decide who to trust and just closes the door on them. Billy, who Sydney thought was dead, falls down the stairs and tells Sydney to let Stu and Randy in. When they come in Randy tells Billy that Stu is crazy and that he is a murderer but Billy shoots Randy. Sydney runs away. It turns out that both Billy and Stu are ghost-faced and were working together the whole time.
In the end, Sydney managed to survive because she killed them both by throwing a TV at Stu and shooting Billy, she went on to move away and go to college. Scream is a good horror movie if you want a good scare and laugh simultaneously.