One Of Craven's Best!

Rating: 7/10 (19 March 2012)

Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy and Drew Barrymore star in Wes Craven's 1996 horror film. Sidney Prescott (Campbell) is a teenage girl who lives in Woodsboro, California with her father and is trying to get over the death of her mother murdered a year before. She also has a boyfriend, Billy Loomis (Ulrich) and friends, Randy Meeks (Kennedy), Tatum Riley (McGowan) and Stu Macher (Lillard) who's also Tatum's boyfriend. When 2 classmates, Casey Becker (Barrymore) and her boyfriend, Steve Orth are brutally murdered by a psychotic killer obsessed with scary movies, Sidney and her friends become targeted. Arquette plays Tatum's older brother, Dewey who's a deputy helping Sidney and Cox plays Gale Weathers, a reporter determined to get a story and free falsely accused man, Cotton Weary (Liev Shreiber) who Sidney thought killed her mother. Sidney realizes she could be wrong about Cotton and everyone is a suspect. This is one of Craven's best that redefined the horror genre featuring a good cast & score. I recommend this.