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Rating: 9/10 (14 July 2000)

Scream was an excellent movie. It did it's job very well. The purpose of the movie was to scare the viewers and it really worked fine.
This was the first movie of it's type, and after this film there have been many other movies made trying to duplicate it.
The sequel of Scream (Scream 2) was not as succesful as the first one. And the last one (Scream 3) was a total chaos.
The reason why Scream was so fantastic is, as I mentioned before, it was the first movie of it's type. No other movies like this had been made before, so nothing in the movie could be said that it was ripped off from other movie(s).
The plot isn't that good, we all know that, and neither are the performances by the actors, but the reason I'm saying that this film is so good is because it accomplished it's mission, it gave a really good time to all the people who watched it (at least all the young people), so I guess I can't complain. I really enjoyed watching the movie.
I'll rate it with a 9 out of 10. It's not really a 9 movie, it's more of like a 7 movie, but as I said, most (young) people enjoyed it a lot, it was original and the first of it's kind.