Film

Scream 1996

Directed by Wes Craven

  • Crime, Horror, Mystery
  • 112 min
  • R

Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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