Scream: the Original Trilogy

Scream - The Original Trilogy Scream: the Original Trilogy

Triple bill of slasher horrors directed by Wes Craven. In 'Scream' (1996) a psychotic killer with a love of horror movies murders teenager Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) in the small Californian town of Woodsboro. As a media circus descends on the town, the killer begins terrorising Casey's high school classmate, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), whose mother was murdered a year earlier.

When Sidney encounters the stalker and escapes, her boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) is arrested on suspicion of murder. However, the phone calls and killings continue, and so Sidney and her friends consult the rules of horror films as they try to unmask the killer before they strike again. 'Scream 2' (1997), takes place a year later and survivors Sidney and Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) are now students at the same college.

A movie based on the Woodsboro murders, 'Stab', sparks a series of copycat killings, and soon the nightmare is beginning all over again. While Sidney wonders who she can really trust, Randy teams up with former police deputy Dewey (David Arquette), still recovering from the effects of his stabbing the first time round, to work out the rules of a real-life horror sequel. Finally, in 'Scream 3' (2000), talk show host Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) - the man once wrongly suspected of carrying out the first of the notorious Woodsboro killings - is himself murdered by a masked figure, plenty of free publicity is provided for 'Stab 3 - Return to Woodsboro'.

When two members of the film's cast are also murdered, production is called to a halt, and the three remaining Woodsboro survivors - Sidney, Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) and Dewey - join forces to find the killer.