The script, written byKevin Williamson,featuredcharacters with individual personalities talking like real kids who were culturally aware.

Screams subversion ofhorrorexpectations led to a series of sequels and imitators, thanks in part to countless memorable lines.

10"Im 25.

Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard sit at a fountain in Scream.

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I was 24 for a whole year."

…The unlikely romance between Dewey and Gale Weathers starts with this first conversation.

9"Ill be right back."

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A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Stu (Matthew Lillard), unable to take anything seriously, cant help but mock his movie-obsessed friend.

prompting roars from the remaining partygoers.

Stu, unable to take anything seriously, cant help but mock his movie-obsessed friend.

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7"Not in my movie."

6"No, like dont kill me, Mr. Ghostface.

I wanna be in the sequel."

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Tatum plays along as the helpless victim until the action becomes decidedly more real.

Tatum plays along as the helpless victim until the action becomes decidedly more real.

…Sidney shuts down the horror movie conversation with a brutal assessment of how she feels about the genre.

Gale and Dewey Meet For the First Time in Scream.

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4"Movies dont create psychos.

Movies make psychos more creative!"

…Billy defiantly defends his one true love while carving into Stu.

Stu says he’ll be right back at the party in Scream.

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Stu watches Randy go over the list in amusement, knowing the rules dont apply to the killers.

2"My mom and dad are gonna be so mad at me."

1Do you like scary movies?

Matthew Lillard as Stu Macher and Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis smiling with blood on their faces in Scream.

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The call is approaching flirty as the mysterious caller asks Casey what her plans are for that evening.

The line “Do you like scary movies?

became the most famous quote attached toScream.

Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, and Neve Campbell in the bloody ending of Scream (1996).

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The line Do you like scary movies?

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Rose McGowan as Tatum stuck in the cat door of the electric garage door in Scream.

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Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott on the phone in Scream.

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Billy and Stu stabbing each other in Scream.

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Randy giving a lecture in Scream.

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Stu (Matthew Lillard) is bleeding, crying, while talking on the phone in a kitchen in Scream.

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Drew Barrymore as Casey Becker smiling while on the phone in ‘Scream’.

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