For nearly 30 years, the first few minutes of this movie have kept thousands of viewers from answering their phones when they’re home alone.

This is one of the most famous opening scenes in cinema, and undoubtedly the most famous in horror cinema. More than a quarter of a century after it hit theaters, Wes Craven’s Scream intro sequence is still highly effective.

Lasting over 12 minutes (!!), a powerful opening scene scream (a film that a certain Tarantino does not like at all) is a model of staging, with palpable tension from the first moments and building a crescendo to the most shocking finale. If you happened to discover the film in theaters, then you were written in as much red iron (blood). Wes Craven They skillfully created a terrible moment that went down in history.

Let me remind you, the opening scene scream It features Casey Becker’s character, played by Drew Barrymore, going to see a horror movie with her boyfriend. While waiting for her alone while making popcorn, she makes a phone call. At the end of the line, a man who will soon terrorize a young woman…

what’s next A gradual increase in horror. A horribly depraved man on the phone offers Casey a macabre game: if he answers one of his questions incorrectly, his companion will lose his life, which unfortunately ends up happening.

In the process, the killer reveals himself (in his famous white mask) and chases Casey, whom he stabs several times in the family garden. A young woman’s parents, after hearing her dying on the line, eventually find her hanging from a tree in a moment of pure cinematic terror.

You can watch the opening scene of “Scream” in full below and it will send chills down your spine:

Drew Barrymore In 2019, he returned to experience scream. “The script for this movie, at a time when the horror genre was kind of lost, was as well written as if it were yesterday.he said At the Vanity Fair microphone. “Nights and nights weep in this house.”

“I liked the fact that we changed things up a bit”continues the actor. “Initially, I had to play the role Neve CampbellAnd then I had this epiphany that if I played Casey and killed him in the first scene, all bets were off.

The seventh “Scream” is in the process of preparation

“The letter Kevin Williamson It had this ironic side that brought something different and new. It was a new approach to horror.”concludes Drew Barrymore. “I think when you do something that gets parodied not once, but dozens of times (We’re obviously thinking of a horror movie, editor’s note)We really feel that it has affected people. “

Fans can rejoice: the seventh opus in the Scream saga is in the starting blocks, with a return to the credits. Neve CampbellAbsence of the sixth part and being behind the camera Kevin WilliamsonScreenwriter of the first film. You’ll have to be patient though, this return to Woodsboro is scheduled for February 25th… in 2026!

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