Since Scream is a hugely popular franchise, most of us now know that Drew Barrymore dies in the cold open. This would free her up for other projects and trick audiences into a big-time scare with the movie’s opening scene. However, Drew changed her mind and decided it would be a great move for her to play Casey Becker instead.
One was that Drew Barrymore had signed on, and the other was an 11-year-old fan telling him The Hills Have Eyes (1977) was his favorite movie but that he thought Craven had “gone soft.”Īt that time, Drew Barrymore was cast as the lead, Sidney Prescott.
Wes Craven wanted to prove he was more than a genre director and was trying to get away from horror, but two things convinced him to direct Scream. Police called back and demanded to know what was going on. The prop master forgot to unplug the phone line, and Drew Barrymore really did call 911 several times screaming and crying while filming her scene. Here we will check out some of those hidden Easter eggs throughout the film that helped define it as such an important horror movie in the mid-90s. Wes Craven’s Scream (1996) and the ubiquitous Scream franchise made slasher flicks more than a pop-culture phenomenon it started a movement in horror cinema that added a new kind of depth, postmodernism, and humor to the genre.
