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In 1996 Scream ushered in a new generation of slasher flicksmixing self-awareness and satire with chills gore and plenty of plot twists. Written by Kevin Williamson Dawson’s Creek The Vampire Diaries and directed by horror pioneer Wes Craven A Nightmare on Elm Street The Hills Have Eyes Swamp Thing Scream flipped the genre on its side. As Lochner writes “Williamson populated the film with characters who knew about other horror films spent much of their time referencing other horror films and even recognized they were living inside of a horror film.The original Screamwhich went on to become one of the highest-grossing horror films of all-timecenters around Sidney Prescott Campbell a high school student in the fictional town of Woodsboro CA who is targeted by a masked serial killer known as “Ghostface.Over the following sequels Prescott continues to face new pursuers who all assume the Ghostface identity. Underscoring the action for the first four Scream films is an engaging score by Mario Beltrami.