Scream (1996) — Episode 70

By the mid 90s, the horror film industry was on life support without much interest from studios to invest in high profile projects. That all changed after executives started hearing about a script from writer Kevin Williamson called ‘Scary Movie.’ 

Written over three days while he was holed up at a friend’s home in Palm Springs, Williamson took inspiration from films such as ‘Psycho’ when setting up his opening scene and from there he managed to blend together a perfect mix of horror and comedy that had just about everybody in Hollywood lining up to make his movie. 

Once Dimension stepped on board as the studio, the call went out for directors and everybody from Quentin Tarantino to Robert Rodriguez was pitched the idea but ultimately it was iconic horror director Wes Craven who decided to take on the project despite his initial plans to distance himself from the genre following the poor reception of his last movie, “Vampire in Brooklyn.” 

Armed with a cast of relatively unknown teens, a ‘Friends’ cast member and one bona fide movie star who wouldn’t stay alive past the opening scene, Craven started to put together a movie that was eventually praised as one of the greatest and most important horror films of all time and arguably a savior to the genre.

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to answer the phone and refuse to run up the stairs as we look back at the 1996 classic “Scream”…

Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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