Vince Vaughn Almost Starred in Scream: 20 Things You Didn't Know About the Teen Horror Classic

In addition to being a stone-cold slasher classic, we have 1996’s Scream to thank for many things. It codified the rules for horror movies for future generations, revitalized the career of late legendary filmmaker Wes Craven, launched 1,000 film school lectures on meta-textualism, coined an annoying new voice for people to imitate (“What’s your favorite scary movie!?”), and generally did for phones what Psycho did for showers.

It’s also the movie that launched Neve Campbell into the cinematic stratosphere as Sidney Prescott, who goes hand-to-hand with the masked ‘n’ murderous Ghostface. In addition to haunting our dreams in perpetuity, the ghoulish white mask will be a staple of Halloween costumes forevermore — yet another thing we owe this wildly innovative and stylish entry into the scary movie canon.

For more behind-the-scenes stories and little-known details about Scream, check out the recent episode of the iHeartRadio podcast Too Much Information, hosted by former PEOPLE editors Jordan Runtagh and Alex Heigl.

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1. The script was written by the future creator of Dawson’s Creek and The Vampire Diaries, Kevin Williamson.

The story of Scream begins with a man named Kevin Williamson. After graduating from college in North Carolina in the late ‘80s, he moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He got a small part on the soap opera Another World in 1990 before moving to Los Angeles in 1991 and picking up small roles in projects like In Living Color, music videos, and films like 1994’s Dirty Money and 1993’s Hot Ticket.

He then began taking screenwriting classes at UCLA, writing a script called Killing Mrs. Tingle (later retitled Teaching Mrs. Tingle) that was picked up in 1995 but wasn’t produced until after the success of Scream. The titular teacher was based on Williamson’s less-than-pleasant experience with an educator who told him he had no hope of ever becoming a writer. 

Skeet Ulrich and Neve Campbell in Scream (1996).

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But Scream helped pave the way for bigger projects on Williamson’s résumé. Fearful that the film was going to flop, he told The Ringer, “I said yes to a lot of stuff before the movie came out. Dawson’s Creek was happening. And I Know What You Did Last Summer was happening. And they sent me the script for The Faculty, like, on the set of Scream.” 

This string of hits ensured that Williamson’s tone and dialogue would mold the next decade of teen-related horror, concurrently with Joss Whedon’s run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He would also later go on to create a bloodsucking property of his own: The Vampire Diaries. 

2. The iconic opening sequence with Drew Barrymore was inspired by a scary moment when Kevin Williamson was home alone. 

Williamson was house-sitting in Palm Springs when he watched the March 9, 1994, episode of the ABC news series Turning Point, chronicaling the Gainesville Ripper, who murdered five college students in Florida over four days in August 1990.

“During the commercial break, I heard a noise and I had to go search the house,” Williamson told CNN in 1998. “I went into the living room and a window was open. And I’d been in this house for two days. I’d never noticed the window open. So I got really scared. So I went to the kitchen, got a butcher knife, got the mobile phone, [and] I called a buddy of mine.” 

That buddy, David Blanchard, also told CNN: “[Kevin was] looking under the beds. He’s going out to the garage and looking in the garage. I’m like, ‘Well, don’t go outside. If you go outside, you’re going to go outside and the killer is going to sneak in the door while you’re outside.’ And [Williamson] was like, ‘What do you mean? What do you mean, the killer?’ ” 

The pair’s conversation drifted to the iconic slasher stars of their youth, but Williamson told CNN, “I went to bed that night so spooked I was having nightmares and I woke up at like three or four in the morning, and I started writing the opening scene to Scream.” 

3. The early script for Scream was initially intended to be a one-act play. 

Williamson didn’t even have a full-length feature in mind when he started writing in the middle of the night. 

“What people don’t know is that [the] opening … I wrote it as a one-act play,” he told ComicBook in 2021. “It was just a young character on the phone talking to us, but could it be a killer outside? That morphed into the opening scene to Scream.”

Williamson worked quickly and banged out the rest of the script in three days.

4. Scream was legendary horror director Wes Craven’s comeback after vowing to quit the genre following the failure of Vampire in Brooklyn starring Eddie Murphy.

Williamson’s script was purchased by Dimension Films, which immediately pitched it to Craven to direct, though he turned it down — at first. The studio then went down its roster of directors including Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Raimi, Danny Boyle and George Romero. 

But Scream seemed tailor-made for Craven, who’d played a major role in shaping the genre by crafting horror hits like Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes, Swamp Thing and The People Under the Stairs. But after the ambitious but underperforming New Nightmare in 1994 and the failure of the Eddie Murphy-led Vampire in Brooklyn in 1995, Craven understandably did not want to be pulled back into the horror world. 

Julie Plec, Craven’s assistant at the time, told The Ringer, “Vampire in Brooklyn came out and was kind of a disaster. And that made him sad. So he wasn’t in any hurry to jump back into it, into his own genre.” 

Producer Marianne Maddalena said that Craven told her he “wanted to get out of the horror ghetto.”

“A couple of months later he read it again and they had attached [Drew] Barrymore and he just felt like, well, why not?” she continued to The Hollywood Reporter. “He really enjoyed that work and he knew he was good at it, so he never thought twice about it once he accepted the job.”

5. Drew Barrymore was initially considered for the lead role of Sidney Prescott — and so were Reese Witherspoon and Brittany Murphy.

Drew Barrymore in ‘Scream’ (1996).

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Drew Barrymore initially displayed interest in playing the film’s heroine, Sidney Prescott, but ultimately opted for a small part as Casey Becker, the teen murdered along with her boyfriend by a phone-wielding killer in the opening sequence. This last-minute casting shift delighted Williamson, who’d been influenced by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, in which Janet Leigh — introduced as the ostensible star of the film — is killed off early on.

With the lead role of Sidney Prescott vacated production began their search for a new star. Vinessa Shaw of Hocus Pocus and Reese Witherspoon were considered, but 19-year-old Witherspoon looked much younger than the rest of the cast. Williamson’s first choice was ‘80s teen movie royalty Molly Ringwald, but she turned it down, saying that (at age 27) she was too old to play a high schooler. 

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The final choices came down to Alicia Witt (then of the sitcom Cybill), Brittany Murphy and Campbell. But Williamson told THR, “By the time we got to the screen test process, we all wanted Neve. So I remember we front-loaded the reel. We put her first so that everyone had to top her. No one did. She was Sidney. It was so obvious.” 

6. Vince Vaughn was initially eyed for the leading male role that went to Skeet Ulrich.

Matthew Lillard auditioned for Billy Loomis, the male lead eventually played by Skeet Ulrich, and was told, in his words, “You’re not the right guy to make out with Neve Campbell the entire time; why don’t you come back in for the best friend.” (This is made all the funnier by the fact that Lillard got a different part and he and Campbell started dating during the production.) Production originally was eyeing Vince Vaughn before ultimately settling on Ulrich —  who’d co-starred with Campbell in The Craft that same year. 

Ulrich did not realize that the film had comedic overtones and went deep into his role, researching famous teen killers like Leopold and Loeb and the Menendez brothers. He was somewhat taken aback by Jamie Kennedy and Lillard’s broad performances on the first day of shooting. 

“I just remember thinking, ‘What are they doing? Don’t they know?’ ” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2021. “Like, ‘This isn’t funny. This isn’t supposed to be funny.’ And man, was I wrong.” 

7. Wes Craven told Skeet Ulrich to hit Matthew Lillard with a phone in the climactic scene, and Lillard’s angry reaction is authentic. 

In Ulrich’s defense, Lillard admits that his maniacal performance at the film’s end is 100 percent scenery-chewing. He told Vulture, “We were crazy! If I ever saw somebody do that on a set, I’d be like, ‘Dude, bring it down 58 percent.’ ”

Lillard has one of the film’s most hilarious ad-libs when Ulrich throws a cordless phone at him — which wasn’t in the script — and Lillard genuinely reacts, “You hit me with the phone, dick!” Ulrich alleges Craven told him to do that to see what Lillard would do. 

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8. Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich’s characters are (possibly) queer-coded. 

The precise nature of Lillard and Ulrich’s characters’ relationship was almost immediately questioned, especially by queer fans of the movie, though it took some time for the principals to admit to the seemingly obvious subtext.

Williamson came out to his friends and family in 1992, and he told PrideSource in 2022 that at the time, he was “very hesitant to present the gay side of me in my work,” resulting in the queerness of characters Billy and Stu being “a little coded and maybe accidental.” Looking back, he told the site, “[Now,] maybe I’d be braver. Maybe I wouldn’t be that shy little gay writer who felt like he couldn’t get away with it.” 

Williamson elaborated on the queer readings of the genre: “It’s always the survival tales that connect us … I think that’s one of the reasons Final Girls are so important to us as a gay audience.” 

Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard in Scream (1996).

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Prior to Scream, he said he related to Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween, because, “I know what it’s like. I think gay kids everywhere understand that survival element that we have to sort of create in ourselves. And when we’re watching that Final Girl have to prove herself and rise to the challenge and save her life, I think that’s something gay kids anywhere can relate to.” 

Lillard, with much less subtlety, addressed the rumors at Seattle Comic-Con in 2023. “Stu and Billy were definitely gay,” he proclaimed. “I said it at the 20th anniversary with Kevin [Williamson], the screenwriter. Somebody asked, ‘Are they gay?’ I was like, ‘They are definitely gay, right Kevin?’ And Kevin was like, ‘Probably.’ So that’s my take.”

9. Rose McGowan deliberately dyed her brown hair blonde to contrast with Neve Campbell — and chose her own wardrobe. 

Sidney’s best friend, the spunky Tatum Riley, was portrayed by Rose McGowan, who opted to dye her hair blonde to contrast Campbell’s. 

“I hated that color,” McGowan later admitted to Entertainment Weekly. “But it was perfect for the role … I immediately went down in the social strata of dating. From a sociological perspective, it was actually fascinating. Any guy that I liked wouldn’t give me the time of day. Anybody who had a jacked-up pickup truck was all over me. It was hilarious.”

McGowan also had strong feelings about the clothing she was provided by the wardrobe department, who envisioned her as something of a tomboy. When the costume designer Cynthia Bergstrom presented McGowan with a pair of overalls and stacked Keds, the actress was not amused. 

“[Bergstrom] goes, ‘They’re very now,’ and I looked at her and said, ‘They’re very never,’ and walked out of the room,” McGowan told Elle. After flagging down a cab, McGowan headed to the nearest mall, where she bought  “quadruple of everything,” selecting cloud pajamas, a lime-green turtleneck sweater and the other pieces that made up her character’s wardrobe.

10. Courteney Cox and David Arquette started dating on the set of Scream, and their burgeoning romance charmed the cast. 

Lillard and Campbell weren’t the only couple to come out of Scream. David Arquette, cast as good-natured if ineffectual deputy Dewey, met Courteney Cox at the first read. Though Dewey was written as more of a dumb jock, Arquette decided to play the character as a frustrated John Wayne-wannabe whose authority is constantly being undercut, and he’s said he was excited to act with Cox — who played the craven tabloid journalist Gale Weathers. 

Courteney Cox and David Arquette in Scream (1996).

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She was less enthused: “When we all got cast, Wes had us out at his house,” Arquette told The Ringer. “I saw Courteney and I was like, ‘Hey, I’m playing Dewey.’ And she’s like, ‘Yeah, I heard about you,’ or something like that. She gave me some real attitude.” 

Nevertheless, the pair got together over the course of filming. Kennedy told Entertainment Weekly: “We had a table read, and their characters just had a lot of interaction. And I just said, ‘Jesus, that’s really good chemistry.’ Afterwards, we were going home to the airport … so we all shared a limo … And it was literally like, ‘Okay, that wasn’t acting.’ … It was actually very beautiful. It was very nice to see people fall in love.” 

Cox and Arquette got married in 1999 and had a daughter, though they ultimately split in 2013. 

11. The voice of Ghostface did his calls with the cast live in the room with his “victims” while watching them from a hidden place on the set — leading to some extra creepy improvised lines. 

Roger L. Jackson has voiced the killer in every single entry in the Scream franchise. He initially auditioned with Barrymore, who wanted a real actor to play against. 

“I was working as a voice actor living in San Francisco, and went in for the audition along with a lot of other people,” Jackson told The Ringer. “The audition script was the first scene from the first film, the opener. I heard some of the other people in the waiting room saying, ‘My agent says they’re looking for a new Freddy Krueger.’ And in reading over the scene, I thought, ‘This is not Freddy Krueger. This is very subtle.'”

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Jackson’s read on the voice was something more seductive than scary. “I knew it had to be a sexy voice and something interesting enough to keep the girl on the phone,” he added to VICE of the Ghostface voice. “Even though she clearly wants to hang up. He sounds interesting. There’s this texture and erotic color to his voice. It’s like a cat that seems sweet and playful, but then all of a sudden the paw comes down onto the mouse’s tail. I wanted the voice to change color as Ghostface goes in for the kill, sort of like a cat does.”

Jackson was kept isolated from the cast during the production but always did his scenes live, which meant the actors knew someone was watching them as they talked, but didn’t know who or from where. For the opening scene, shot on location at an actual house, he was “outside one of [the] windows, crouching in the shadows and taking shelter under a canopy because it was raining outside.”

“I was watching Drew [Barrymore] through the window while I was on this cell phone that was completely mic’d up,” he said. “It was a live conversation. My view was what the killer’s would have been. It was genius.”

Neve Campbell and Rose McGowan in Scream (1996).

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Craven gave Jackson leeway to adapt lines on the spot, and even come up with new dialogue altogether.  

“He let me improvise so I could be really creative,” Jackson recalled. “I remember I said something not in the script, like: ‘Have you ever felt a knife cut through human flesh and scrape the bone underneath?’ Another one I was proud of was when I told Neve that I would cut out her eyelids so she couldn’t blink while I stabbed her to death.” 

12. Drew Barrymore thought of a heartbreaking true-life story about a dog when she wanted to summon real tears. 

The opening scene took five days of night shoots to capture and was more or less shot in sequence. When Barrymore and Craven sat down to plot it out, they came up with an interesting strategy to draw real tears out of the actress. 

Drew Barrymore in Scream (1996).

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“We couldn’t have been more on the same page,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “I was like, ‘I never want fake tears, I will come up with a mechanism with which to really make me cry. I will run around until I’m hyperventilating.’ He and I had this secret story. We would just talk about it every time ’cause it just made me cry every time I thought about it. That worked for tears — it didn’t work for hyperventilating. I would still have to run around a lot.” 

Craven elaborated in the DVD commentary: “The night before we started shooting she told me a horrible story of a newspaper article of a dog being burned by its owner. Set on fire. And she started crying as she was telling me this. So every time that I needed her to get over that edge into complete tears, I would just say [to] Drew, ‘I’m lighting the lighter.’ And she would just burst into tears.” 

13. There was drama over the creation and credit of the iconic Ghostface mask. 

Though not explicitly described in the script, the iconic Ghostface mask was just a bog-standard Halloween mask evoking Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream and the whole lineage of cartoonishly distorted faces that took cues from it — including the covers of King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It was designed in 1991 as part of the Fun World company’s “Fantastic Faces” product line and was founded by Williamson and executive producer Maryanne Maddalena while location scouting. 

But while Fun World legally owned the design, it was a team effort from a group of talented artists, many of whom gathered at a party on Halloween to show off their work. 

“My costume idea was an advanced take on the classic Halloween costume of a bedsheet with eye holes for a ghost, which integrated a formed buckram ghost face mask with a long jaw,” Loren Gitthens, a special effects makeup artist working in Los Angeles at Tony Gardner’s Alterian Studios, recalled to Fangoria Magazine. ”During a slow period for movie work, the company decided to make a collection of Halloween masks and self-market them.”

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In 1991, Gitthens and fellow Alterian artist Jim Eusterman drove cross-country to the annual Halloween trade show in Chicago, the largest event of its kind in the U.S., to promote their line of masks. Within months of that show, Fun World gave a brand-new in-house designer, Brigitte Sleiertin-Liden, marching orders to essentially copy the Alterian designs. 

“I was given a picture of something similar to what the finished masks would eventually look like,” she told Fangoria, “[and] was asked if I thought these could be made as masks and to do some drawings with a similar look and feel. So I did a bunch of sketches of different faces with that same white, melty face with simplistic black facial feature shapes.” 

Gitthens was surprised when, a year or two later, he came across what appeared to be his own design while shopping. “I was in a drugstore and saw Fun World’s mass-produced, knock-off versions of my ‘Wailer,’ ” Gitthens told Fangoria. “Clearly, it appeared to be a direct rendering of my original creation. I was a bit amused but didn’t pursue looking into it any further as I had left that part of my life behind and was on to a new one.”

Years after that, one of these masks was found by the production designers for Scream, who licensed the design from Fun World. But all the Alterian artists were essentially cut out of the enormous profits from the unsanctioned riff of their work. Alterian owner Tony Gardner says that when he saw Scream, he was “genuinely flattered that they had used our mask design.” 

“I really enjoyed the movie and thought it was a great compliment that ‘Wailer’ was up there on the big screen and in such a great film,” he told Fangoria. “I was a bit naive at the time and assumed that since it had been years since we created the mask, there would be no way to fight for it. I also assumed that the movie was a one-time deal and that the ship had already sailed.” 

He was correct: In 1996, presumably in response to Dimension Films licensing the design for Scream, Fun World trademarked the design and named it “Ghostface.”

14. The production got into a feud with the town of Santa Rosa, Calif., and took a dig at them in the film’s credits. 

Production for Scream was largely set in the quaint little California town of Santa Rosa, just over 50 miles from San Francisco. The town was well acquainted with Hollywood: Movies like Peggy Sue Got Married and Inventing the Abbotts were shot at its high school, while the city itself has served as the backdrop for everything from Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt to Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.

The Scream production wanted to use Santa Rosa’s high school as well, and claim that they got a verbal agreement from the principal, which they based their shooting schedule around. But they never made it. 

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First, the city claimed that the crew hadn’t filed the proper paperwork, and after that had been resolved, the school reneged on its supposed offer, saying it conflicted with final exams. 

The movie was relocated to the Sonoma Community Center, with entire scenes rewritten to accommodate the switch. Craven was already at odds with Dimension Films about budget and production matters, so the extra expenses were not appreciated. He estimated the move cost production $350,000. This is perhaps why the end credits of the film include a very pointed message: “No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.”

15. David Arquette made a nightclub for the cast in his hotel room. 

Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, and Neve Campbell in Scream (1996).

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Because of the relative isolation of Northern California from Hollywood, the cast bonded easily during the shoot. Many had fond memories of staying at the DoubleTree Hotel, mostly because they had fresh-baked cookies daily. 

“I know it sounds stupid, but it was just so good,” Kennedy recalled to The Ringer. “Every day I felt like I had a little treat. If I did a good scene, I’d eat my cookie.” 

Shooting mostly at night, the cast blacked out their windows because they’d come back at 6 a.m. and “unwind,” which mostly meant drinking. This was assisted by Arquette, who had a bar installed in his room. This setup also included black lights and lava lamps.

Campbell remembered, “David is nuts, so he bought every toy possible that you can buy in Santa Rosa, and they were hanging from his ceiling. I think it was called ‘David’s Bar’ or ‘David’s Club’ or something.”

The cast and crew had a lot of parking lot parties and even a bonfire at one point. Ulrich told Vulture, “We did feel like a group of outcasts that came together. You know, 6 a.m. getting off work and we’d be rolling into the hotel half caked in sticky syrup and blood as people are rolling out to go on their wine tours in Napa Valley … It’s not every film that you get to do that — less and less now as we get distracted by so many things. It really was an incredible time.” 

16. The final scene took weeks to shoot and has become notorious as “the longest night in horror history” — made extra gross by the fact that costumes went unwashed. 

The climactic 42-minute party sequence of Scream, noted as “Scene 118” in the script, was filmed over a grueling three-week shoot hampered by technical snafus, made all the more difficult by the remote location. The production jokingly printed T-shirts reading “I survived Scene 118” after it wrapped, and it’s still referred to in certain filmmaking circles as “the longest night in horror history.”  

While the crew grappled with the logistical headaches, the actors dealt with their own special kind of discomfort. 

“Literally, they wouldn’t wash my costume,” Campbell told The Ringer. “I would take it off in the morning, and then in the evening when I went back to work — because the continuity of the blood had to be the same — they would just wet it. They would dampen the blood. I wanted to burn that costume at the end of the movie.” 

The final confrontation between Campbell, Lillard and Ulrich took five days on its own. Campbell recalled the difficulty of maintaining an intense level of terror for that long but was helped along by Craven. 

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“In the scene with Skeet and Matt when I’m against the counter and they’re about to kill me, I’m about to get my strength, [Wes] came up and he just whispered in my ear, he said, ‘Imagine you’ve got 1,000 bullets ricocheting through your body,’ and he walked away,” she told the outlet.

Her fear might have been helped by how intense Ulrich and Lillard were. Lillard told Vulture, “We were amped. There’s no doubt that we were on a fever pitch for the five days we shot the last killing sequence. We were screaming. We were in between takes trying to maintain the energy.” 

Ulrich added, “Courteney came to the set, getting ready to shoot it, and Matt and I are like caged animals, in that zone, and just pacing the set. Courteney comes in, and we make eye contact, and Wes is like, ‘Okay, all right. All right.’ She’s freaked out, and we’re not even filming yet. And I distinctly remember Wes being like, ‘All right, guys. Just calm down for a second.’ ”

17. Skeet Ultrich was badly hurt during the final scene.

The finale also had a very real scare for Ulrich: He’d had open-heart surgery as a child, and it left him with a spot on his chest with a stainless steel wire extremely sensitive to touch. Though he was padded up for when Campbell hits him with an umbrella, the second stab accidentally connected with the spot, and his pain reaction is visible. 

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18. The MPAA wanted to give Scream an NC-17 rating — but not for the reason you’d expect. 

Production predictably had to battle the MPAA over certain gory aspects of the film. The ratings board sent it back nine times as NC-17 before allowing it to go out with an R. Surprisingly, one of the biggest points of contention was actually a portion of the dialogue.

“Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative.” Williamson told THR, “That was the line that I had written on a notecard and taped to my wall, and the whole movie was written toward that line.”

Editor Patrick Lussier said, “It’s certainly the line of dialogue that the MPAA went after and wanted removed from the film. It was like, ‘You can’t speak that kind of truth’ … That particular line of dialogue they wanted to censor, but they don’t word it that way. They just say, ‘Look at these areas, this is a problem, this is, this is, this is.’ ”

19. The film was originally going to be called Scary Movie before changing it to Scream — which resulted in a lawsuit. 

The film was still titled Scary Movie until late in production, when the Weinsteins of Miramax insisted on rechristening it to Scream, which prompted a quickly settled lawsuit from Sony Pictures claiming it infringed on their copyright of 1995’s Screamer. 

Most people actually hated the title, though a few did begrudgingly admit that it tied in with the Edvard Munch painting the mask resembled quite well.

20. Scream helped popularize Caller ID … for obvious reasons. 

Though caller ID was actually invented by Greek telecommunication engineer Theodore Paraskevakos back in 1968, the service didn’t really catch on until the mid-’90s, and had its biggest spike following the release of Scream. As Barrymore — whose tragic character could have benefited from the invention — noted as part of CBS Movie Night, Caller ID use tripled after film’s premiere in December 1996. 

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