"It's dark outside, and teenager Casey Becker is home alone, making popcorn on the stove and preparing to pop a scary movie into the VCR while she waits for the arrival of her boyfriend, Steve. The teen, portrayed by actress Drew Barrymore, picks up the phone and hears a deep, ominous voice on the other end. It's one of the most chilling moments in horror cinema, and one that journalist and author Ashley Cullins has never forgotten."
"Casey's parents are coming up the driveway, and they're so close, and she's just crawling and you're yelling: Just throw the phone! It's a cordless phone! They'll hear you,' Cullins said with a nervous laugh, as she continued to share the famous scene, mimicking how she herself was screaming at her TV screen."
"It's so scary and then suddenly you're right into the movie and there's this fun group of teenagers who make you forget how scared you were just a few moments ago, she said. Only for (the horror) to start all over again. It's a terrifying rollercoaster ride: You're scared one minute, then you're laughing the next."
Scream opens with teenager Casey Becker alone at home, answering a menacing phone call that escalates into one of horror cinema's most chilling moments. Drew Barrymore portrays Casey in a sequence that alternates intense fear with sudden, darkly comic relief as nearby parents approach and the cordless phone complicates the escape. Director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson combined suspense and meta-aware humor to create a horror-comedy that cycles between scares and laughs. Studios initially hesitated to greenlight the film, but it became a major franchise that influenced the genre's tone and rules.
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