Best Horror Film!

Rating: 9/10 (23 January 2010)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say: best horror film.
Yes, I said it. Combine gore of Friday the 13th, the disturbing phone calls from When A Stranger Calls and add in some comedy. The story is very exciting and it's fun to analyze the movie to see "who killed who" since the killer is two people.
I think this story is very original though it has some similarities to other films. Now add in a grand cast and you've got a great horror flick. The realism is good too, they don't make the killer invincible. He can be knocked down, and he can be killed.
Neve Campbell is the star and plays Sidney Prescott. Her mother was murdered nearly a year earlier and she thought Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) was responsible. She still can't get over it as the new killer seems to be linked somehow since when he calls Sid he mentions her mother.
Skeet Ulrich plays Billy, Sid's boyfriend. Sid gets him arrested thinking Billy is responsible for the calls to her and all the other victims but when the phone company's info comes back, Billy is clean.
Matthew Lillard plays the friend of them all and is dating Tatum, Sid's best friend. Matthew provides the most comedy with his lines and his ad-libbed lines. Combined with Jamie Kennedy they are the perfect comic relief.
Drew Barrymore has a 12 minute opening scene as the introduction to the killer's appearance and first kill. Matthew Lillard (Stu) is seemingly the first suspect as he dated her before, but Tatum says that Stu and her were together when it happened.
David Arquette plays Dewey Riley. He's the brother to Tatum and friends with Sid. He is also Deputy of the town of Woodsboro. He does a good job but throughout the series his character changes the most, I think.
Finally, last but not least, Courteney Cox-Arquette plays Gale Weathers, a small town local reporter who is writing a book on Sid's mother's murder story. She is actually quite a sweet character as the series goes on but she has her bitter sides as well.
All of them are very important to the overall movie. Their performances are all some of the best I've ever seen. If the award Best Ensemble Cast Performance was available, I'd give it to this movie for 1997's award show.
Just about every scene has excitement, drama and comedy.