Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)

List Price: ~~$14.99~~
Our Price: $9.99
You Save: $5.00 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.98 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases

Compare Prices for Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD Cover Information

Actor: David Arquette, David Booth (II), Drew Barrymore, Lisa Beach, W. Earl Brown
Primary Contributor: David Arquette
Primary Contributor: Neve Campbell
Primary Contributor: Courteney Cox
Primary Contributor: Skeet Ulrich
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Published); English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-12-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dimension

Movie Reviews of Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)

Movie Review: What a scream; literally...
Summary: 5 Stars

The opening sequence to this teenage slasher film is one of the most memorable scenes in Hollywood history. I know, that may seem like jumping the gun a bit, but it's not; believe me.

Think about it; Drew Barrymore alone in a house when the phone rings right as she's setting popcorn on the stove. She informs the caller that she's getting ready to settle down and watch a scary movie. She loves scary movies. The caller is dark and mysterious yet surprisingly friendly, almost so smooth he's inviting and so Drew (her name in the film is Casey) keeps talking to him. Then he starts to scare her. He lets her know he's watching her and when she threatens to hang up he threatens her life. What follows may be one of the most intense scenes in the whole of horror films, and it remains one of the most memorable scenes ever filmed.

So begins a tale of murder in a small town as local students start dropping like flies. It's the one year anniversary of the brutal murder of young Sidney Prescott's mother and it seems that she is the next target. Her friends try and show her support, but things look even grimmer when her very own boyfriend appears to be the masked killer. Dealing with a killer on the loose seems like enough to get anyone frazzled, but Sidney also has to deal with local reporter Gale Weathers, who is obsessed with Sidney's mother's murder and is convinced that Sidney ID'd the wrong guy.

As the night sets in, the body count rises and everyone is using their horror movie knowledge to try and make it to the sequel.

What is so amazing about `Scream' is that it knows what its faults are and it exploits them. What writer Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven have done is create a film that pokes fun at the horror movie stereotypes without ever falling into parody territory. This film is genuinely scary, but it never takes itself too seriously. It contains all the generic horror clich?s but inserts its own array of twists to deliver a fresh take on a tired genre. This is the film that proved to be a rebirth for a genre that many had written off.

The cast is funny and entertaining, Matthew Lillard getting major points for creating an obnoxiously entertaining character that you wanted to see in every scene. Neve Campbell is a very pretty and very naturally charming girl who should have received a bigger career after this, and Skeet Ulrich has enough of a bad boy charm that you can see him as a suspect but hope and pray that he isn't the killer. Jamie Kennedy didn't impress me too much, and I've never really felt McGowan was a real actress; but they are serviceable. David Arquette is effective and Courtney Cox is brilliant (truly), but in all honesty, this movie BELONGS to Drew Barrymore, who in just merely five minutes cemented herself as the new scream queen!

So, the film is chilling, smart, funny and wonderfully crafted. What's not to love?

Write your own review

More Scream (Dimension Collector's Series) reviews:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Summary of Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)

A crowd-pleasing smash hit with a sizzling cast -- critics are calling SCREAM the hippest thriller of the year! Afer a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes a place where no one is safe ... and everyone is suspect! That's when an offbeat group of friends rally to unlock the town's deadly secrets ... and get caught up in a lively mix of thrills, chills, and surprises! With hot stars Drew Barrymore (CHARLIE'S ANGELS), Courteney Cox (TV's FRIENDS), Neve Campbell (54), Skeet Ulrich (AS GOOD AS IT GETS), and David Arquette (BEAUTIFUL GIRLS).

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 clich?s 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

Action & Adventure DVD Video

DVD Video

Movies most talked about in *100 Top Horror Movies 61 - 100* Best-Horror-Movies.com (Updated 2009)

Final Destination (New Line Platinum Series)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-06-01; DVD
Best price: $1.86
Price in other shops: ~~$14.96~~

Dead Ringers: The Criterion Collection
Release date: 1998-10-14; DVD
Best price: $39.95

The Ring (Widescreen Edition)
Paramount; Release date: 2003-03-04; DVD
Best price: $2.70
Price in other shops: ~~$9.98~~

Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Bride of / Son of / Ghost of / House of)
FRANKENSTEIN: THE LEGACY COLLECTION (DVD MOVI; Release date: 2004-04-27; DVD
Best price: $19.93
Price in other shops: ~~$26.98~~

Scream (Dimension Collector's Series)
Release date: 1998-12-08; DVD
Best price: $4.81
Price in other shops: ~~$14.99~~

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
Sony; Release date: 2007-10-02; DVD
Best price: $8.43
Price in other shops: ~~$19.94~~

Night of the Creeps
DVD
Best price: $17.99
Price in other shops: ~~$19.94~~

Salem's Lot
Warner Brothers; Release date: 1999-10-26; DVD
Best price: $29.91

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Collector's Edition)
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $12.22
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Stephen King's It
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2002-10-01; DVD
Best price: $5.86
Price in other shops: ~~$14.96~~

Similar DVD Movies

The Shining
Release date: 1999-06-29; DVD
Best price: $4.62
Price in other shops: ~~$24.98~~

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Infinifilm Edition) Image

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Infinifilm Edition)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2006-09-26; DVD
Best price: $3.55
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Scary Movie
WAYANS,MARLON; Release date: 2000-12-12; DVD
Best price: $4.55
Price in other shops: ~~$14.99~~

Urban Legend
Sony; Release date: 1999-02-23; DVD
Best price: $3.42
Price in other shops: ~~$9.95~~

I Know What You Did Last Summer/ I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Sony; Release date: 2005-09-13; DVD
Best price: $11.95
Price in other shops: ~~$19.94~~

Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)
CURTIS/ARKIN/HARTNETT/WILLIAMS; Release date: 1999-10-19; DVD
Best price: $4.13
Price in other shops: ~~$9.99~~