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| Scream (Dimension Collector's Series) | 
 enlarge | Actors: David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Lisa Beach, David Booth (ii), W. Earl Brown
Studio: Dimension
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  584 reviews
Sales Rank: 4746
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Published), English (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 111
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: DISD15638D
ISBN: 630521610X
UPC: 717951000835
EAN: 9786305216100
ASIN: 630521610X
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1996
Release Date: December 8, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: **BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED**
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Product Description
An offbeat group of friends band together to stop a deranged killer. Includes commentary by director wes craven and the screenwriter. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/05/2006 Starring: Drew Barrymore Neve Campbell Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R
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With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted cliches and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson
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 Entertaining slasher but not scary at all. March 31, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Scream is one of my favorite slashers but I don't like it the way I use to. Even though I don't consider this a horror movie and it doesn't scare in the slightest. Scream did breath some new life into the slasher genre that was very close to being dead. Plus there are things that Scream does right. It is entertaining for one thing. The suspense is there plus the acting is solid to me. I really liked the way they payed homage to other horror films and the plot twist was pulled off well. The gore is decent at best.
The pace was pretty good and I liked the way the rules of horror movies were being used. Even though Scream comes off more as a teeny bopper. It does it's job in being a watchable movie. And looking at slasher movies these days that's saying alot.
 IT MADE MY LIST OF GREATNESS!! ACCEPTABLE! July 5, 2005
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
YES!!! I HAVE TO SURPRISINGLY SAY ,SCREAM PACKS PUNCH, IT HAD A WEIRD PLOT BUT ENTERTAINING VIEW KEEPING U ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT, AND THE KILLER KICKED A**! DIDNT TAKE 9 MINUTES FOR THE KNOFE TO COME DOWN, IT WAS ACTION PACKED, A BIT STUPID ON THE KILLERS STABBING THEMSELVES, A SCENE FROM SCOOBY-DOO, BUT THIS IS AN ENJOYABLE FEATURE NO DOUBT, GET URS HERE ON AMAZON TODAY A GREAT COLLECTORS ITEM, SAD TO SAY SCREAM 2 AND 3 SUCKED!! BIG-TIME!1
Great slasher movie June 18, 2005
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
There's more than a few reasons to hate `Scream'; the main reason would be that the film single-handedly resurrected the teen-slasher genre, a movie category that had long been beaten to death. Because of the success of `Scream', witless horror rubbish like `I Know What You Did Last Summer' and `Urban Legend' got greenlighted, half the teenage casts of various WB television shows got summer acting jobs, and some awful scripts that should've been left dead and buried `Teaching Mrs. Tingle' got to see the light of day. `Scream' is responsible for a lot of garbage. But the truth of the matter is, `Scream' is also a phenomenal movie.
Director Wes Craven was perfect for this film- as director of slasher classics like `Nightmare On Elm Street', he easily sets the visual feels and style of film to perfect evoke all the slasher films of yore . . . and then, much like `Scream's' script, chooses to either faithfully follow the tried and true, or to go off in competely unexpected directions. Either way, Craven manages to create a lot of absolutely nail-biting, thrilling scenes. He also doesn't hold back with the gore, which is always a plus in great slasher films.
The best slasher film of all time is still John Carpenter's `Halloween', without question, but `Scream' actually runs a close second. It's well worth watching.
A HALF DECENT SCARE MOVIE August 6, 2000
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
But once again actors in their mid-to-late twenties are playing teenagers and the effect of the film is totally ruined as they behave and act so unrealistic. While most people may consider this a cool movie just because of the scares and the over-hyped "irony" there is actually an intelligent plot with a pretty good twist. I notice this more as I am a writer and this is one of my fave horror/thrillers.I advise you not to watch this for the pumped up scares (to a very loud soundtrack) but for how a typical "who's the killer?" plotline can be a little better than it is believed to be. Some of the characters can be really annoying. In fact the only one that doesn't enrage me is Dewey. His idiotness makes me laugh and diverts my attention from the other characters in the very slow "character building scenes". The direction and photography are very bland. Wes Craven did a much better job of a real horror film with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Here it just seems as if he aiming at the teen/popcorn market. You'll notice that, with these kind of movies, most of the characters (not actors) are teenagers and the tone of the film is mostly "safe". In the Scream "sub-genre" there is never any REAL edge. After this movie was made, many, increasing bad, movies that were all exactly the same rolled off a conveyor belt in Hollywood. They were easy moneymakers. Craven knew this beforehand but deep, intelligent movies do not sit well with mass audiences. The blander the style of film is, the more popular it will be with the majority of audiences. The plot in this one redeems these bad qualities. I just wish for a real horror film to come out of Hollywood. The DVD is in Dolby 5.1 and is letterboxed at 2.35:1. It is also NOT the more gory directors cut I mistakenly believed it to be.
 Politically Correct slasher movie April 3, 2000
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Scream brought us little shocks and no nudity. The most popular slasher movies, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Friday the 13th all had creative death sequences, which are important in slasher movies. They also brought us very SHOCKING material. And often nudity. They were not afraid to stand up to the plate and deliver what they were supposed to. Unfortunately, the '90s were a politically correct time, where many slasher movies were nervous about showing, gore, nudity and such else. Scream, I respect for delivering a reignition in the genre, but it doesn't deliver what the '80s crowds went to see, except for the slashings of course. Wes Craven is noticeably softer here than ever before. He's unfortunately not given the audiences shocks that will be talked about for years. Last House On The Left was extremely shocking and A Nightmare On Elm Street has some of the most elaborate death scenes in slasher history. And if Kevin Williamson would have watched more than just a hand full of slasher movies, it would have been given more fun material I believe. And if he did watch more than a hand full of slasher movies, he should have thrown much more stuff in. The classics like the Friday the 13th series, Nightmare On Elm Street series, and Halloween series remain uneclipsed by present slasher movies. Thankfully, it looks like Scream has boosted life back into the '80s horror rather than the '90s horror, seeing how the Scream-imitations are slowly dying down and Jason X, Freddy vs. Jason, Seed Of Chucky, Hellraiser 5 and others are on the way.
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