Overview
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
MovieMagicScore Overview
Auto-generatedWes Craven's 1996 film reinvents the slasher with sly self-awareness, following a teenage girl who, a year after her mother's murder, is stalked by a masked killer who weaves horror-movie rules into a deadly game targeting her and her friends. Blending crime, horror, and mystery with knowing humor, it plays as both a genuine scare-machine and a clever commentary on the genre itself. The whodunit structure keeps suspicion shifting throughout. It is ideal for fans of suspenseful, witty horror with a meta edge. Among the strongest-scoring titles here, it carries a MagicMovieScore of 7.4.
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Top Cast
David Arquette
Dewey Riley
Neve Campbell
Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox
Gale Weathers
Matthew Lillard
Stu Macher
Rose McGowan
Tatum Riley
Skeet Ulrich
Billy Loomis
Jamie Kennedy
Randy Meeks
W. Earl Brown
Kenny Brown
7,776 ratings, tightly clustered. This score is unlikely to move more than 0.04 with new ratings.
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Movie Info
Release Date
December 20, 1996
Runtime
1h 52m
Rating
R
Genres
Crime, Horror, Mystery
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