Scream

Kevin Williamson wrote the script and Wes Craven directed this 1996 American slasher film. Set in the fictional town of Woodsboro, the plot follows high school student Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) who becomes the target of a masked serial killer known as Ghostface. A year prior, her mother was murdered, and now Sidney faces terror again as her friends and classmates are killed one by one. Reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) aims to uncover the killer's identity, working alongside Deputy Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette). The film blends elements of horror and mystery, playing with slasher genre clichés and offering audiences unexpected plot twists.