Scream (1996) Movie Reaction | *First Time Watching* 

Drew Barrymore getting killed off in the opening was meant to throw off the audience and was actually her idea! She was offered the lead role but thought it would be more impactful for her character to die right away, since most assumed that she was the main character. And now it's an iconic scene! She just talked about it on her Hot Ones episode! Awesome reaction :)

Also FUN FACT: Rose, the actress who played Tatum, actually COULD squeeze through that pet door in the garage. So in order to actually get the footage they needed of her 'stuck' and 'struggling' they nail her shirt to the garage door.

It’s even more meta with Randy yelling “Jamie turn around, behind you!” because the actor’s name is Jamie.

This is probably the first reaction I’ve watched where the reactor is suspecting Dewey and not Billy 😂

I love that you genuinely thought there was going to be a end credit scene from a movie made in 1996 aahahaha

Fun fact: Skeet Ulrich (Billy) wasn't suppose to hit Matthew Lillard (Stu) with the phone. He did it by accident and Matthew improvised the line "You hit me with the phone dick!" And Wes Craven liked it and kept it to the film.

"Stu's definitely not the killer.." Well... 🤣

I can’t believe this killer is spoiling horror movies I haven’t even watched, what an actual menace > : [

The line "Because I want to know who I'm looking at." Still gives Me chills to this day. He's so calm, and nonchalant about it, and the look on her face when she hears it.

The fun fact is: Randy said „behind you!“ to Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween and Randys real name is Jamie aswell! So thats really meta 😅

One of the best slasher movies ever. A post modern masterpiece. For sure a film for horror fans, the movie is completely self aware, thats why it (and its sequels) are held in high regard..

“I love Drew Barrymore! She’s gonna make this movie so good!” Haha… Yeahhh……….

I love how you laugh at your own jokes, most of the time your joke is not the one making me laugh it’s you’re laughter😂

Fun fact: Marco Beltrami, who did the score for all Scream movies, also did the score for the Fear Street trilogy.

get spoiled by a 26 year old movie is actually hilarious what. the genuine shock on your face 😭😭

The thing you have to understand is that when this movie was made, the Ghostface costume was NOT being sold at every major store in the country. The costume was relatively new and not so popular, which is what made it perfect for the film. The costume became popular BECAUSE of SCREAM. It went from obscure in its existence, to becoming official SCREAM merchandise. Also, the mask itself is based upon the famous painting “The Scream.”

“He may be fat but he can lose weight but you can’t lose your attitude”- Puggpillar

I love this so much. Your "Drew Barry no more" made me snort so hard. I hope you do the other movies!

"Is that illegal?" Yes! California is a two-party consent state when it comes to wire tapping and, in this case, recording someone. Anyone recording audio or video of a person in whatever context has to have consent from all individuals involved in the recording. Gale broke the law putting her camera at that party and as useful as it was in tracking ghostface during the chase aspects of the third act and confirming that Billy and Stu were the killers (which would have still existed if they had managed to kill everyone), she can't legally use anything on that tape without potentially getting herself into a lot of hot water.

Fun fact Drew fought for her right to have Casey to die right away because the audience wouldn't expect it

“TAKE YOUR BLOODY SHOES OFF THE COUCH” 💀😭

Dude, very glad to have found you through the Fear Street series. You're fucking hilarious and so damn entertaining. Seriously looking forward to seeing more from you!

Also, Neve Campbell might be the best final girl ever.

17:17 - That reporter talking to Sidney is Linda Blair, star of The Exorcist. Also as far as Post-Credit scenes in films before the 90's, if you ever watch Airplane! or Ferris Bueller's Day Off, they have them (Airplane is more of a 'stinger' than a scene).

I absolutely just LOVE watching people get excited about Drew Barrymore in the opening during their first watch cause it makes the payoff so much better XDXD

Wes Craven, Scream's creator, was actually the janitor dressed as Freddy Edit: RIP to the creative genius.

"Scream, grunt, fart or something." I can't. Just can't. 🤣

What the hell is Hellraiser? That’s a box you don’t wanna open…

Something I will forever find funny is that after this movie, courtney cox and David Arquette got married

I can definitely see why you thought it was Dewey, I remember when this came out a lot of people thought he was going to be the killer and that was intentional, they wanted you to keep guessing. I was constantly changing my mind when I first saw it. That’s the brilliance of this movie, one minute your convinced you know who the killer is and the next second you question everything you thought, it messes with you. There weren’t very many horror who done it movies, it was usually cut and dry who the killer is, not to say there wasn’t any but not as much. Nowadays people guess that it’s Billy but back then everyone thought it was too obvious and the film makers wouldn’t be that lazy but they fooled everyone and it was genius! This is also one of the few horror films that had two killers, no one saw that coming! I love this movie, it’s also very funny and makes fun of horror tropes. Even the director himself Wes Craven made fun of his work. He directed Nightmare On Elm Street and MANY more horror films, he also played the janitor who the principle calls Fred. It’s great satire but doesn’t go fool parody, it has a great story and memorable characters.

Love your videos. They make my day a lot better. I’m glad that I’ve found a genuinely funny Aussie reaction channel. I haven’t watched the video yet but I know I’ll enjoy it.

Fun Facts: - So when Tatum said to Dewey that the janitor is your superior its true cause the janitor at the school that was dressed as Freddy Krueger was Wes Craven who directed Scream-Scream 4 lol. He died after making Scream 4 so the new directors for Scream 5 directed "Ready or Not". Scream 5 came out this year and Scream 6 is in the works it'll be out next year in March. - So before Scream came out caller ID was not popular at all. The Caller I.D sales in the U.S tripled after Scream was released lol. - Billy AND Stu were at Casey's and used their girlfriends as Alibis for being out. Stu was on the patio with Steve while Billy was in the front tormenting her on the phone. The question about "Which door am I at" was a trick question. Stu ran to the front door to let Billy in you can hear the front door open before she went outside through the kitchen. When her mom was hearing Casey breathing on the other end of the phone line you can hear one talking to another saying "tree" and the the phone ends. - Wes Craven lol to get his actors into character emotionally like Drew Barrymore (Casey) and Neve Campbell (Sidney) right before he start to film he would run up to them and tell them something terrifying or sad like dead puppies and then run off and yell action lol. Drew's emotions were legit cause of Wes and for her love for animals lol. - Roger L. Jackson was the voice of Ghostface for all of Scream movies. For every film the actors were never allowed to meet him before or see him during filming so that way when they were on the phone with him it would give them that real fear effect. Wes Craven always kept him hidden from the others to where they couldn't see him but he was still able to see them. He also improved a lot of his lines aswell. - They casted Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis and gave him the same kind of hair style cause of how close he looked like to young Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street who he also climbed in through a bedroom window. His last name Loomis is a reference to Dr. Loomis in Halloween. - Also when he climbed through her window the first time "Fear the Reaper" was playing. He climbed through her window to distract her and turned on her stereo and up the volume to cover up the background noise of Stu kidnapping her dad. If notice he was wearing the same outfit at the end. - The news lady that was harassing Sidney "how does it feel to almost being butchered" that's Linda Blair from the Exorcist. - If look really closely when Billy was "stabbed" in the bedroom you can see Stu adding the fake blood onto the knife before wiping it off. -Casey's comment about Nightmare on Elm Street about how the first was good but the rest sucked. It's because Wes Craven only did the first one and didn't direct all of the other ones lol. -Kenny actually saved Sidney in his literal final moment after his throat got slashed. He pointed to the back and told her door so she could crawl out. - Ghostface in the bathroom was a prank on Sidney it wasn't either Billy or Stu. - Rose McGowan(Tatum) was actually able to fit through the cat door. They had to staple her shirt to the door cause she kept falling out. Also just before her head got smashed in she herself added calling out "mom" and Wes loved it and kept it in. Rose also picked out her own outfits for her character. The jersey she wore with #10 was also a reference to Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street. - When Billy hit Stu in the head with the phone it was a accident on Skeets part. The fake blood was so sticky and ended up hitting Matthew Lillard instead of the desk and his "Oww You hit me with the phone D***" was a real reaction to it. Wes loved it aswell so he kept it lol. Matthew also improved most of his kitchen scene with his lines like with "Houston we have a problem" "the peer pressure" and the comment about his parents going to be so mad lol. - Neve Campbell and Matthew Lillard actually started dating while filming Scream and were together for little over 2 years. So that whole "I've always had a thing for you Sid" was true lol. He originally auditioned for Billy but the casting didn't believe that Sidney would date someone like him lol. So he ended up getting Stu and Skeet got Billy cause of his look alike to Johnny Depp. Funny thing is even though the casting thought that about Matthew they ended up dating real life anyways 😂 - When Billy got stabbed with the umbrella the 2nd time it actually hit Skeet where he had heart surgery when he was younger so that scream he let out was his real action to the pain. - Drew Barrymore was supposed to play Sidney. But she ended up changing her mind and went to Wes with a idea to have her as the open kill cause no one would expect it. Also would show if they could kill off a huge star right off the bat it would mean NO ONE was safe. -Even though Billy was at Sidneys for the attack. It was actually Stu who she fought with when he was tripping up the stairs you can hear ghostface saying "easy" "easy". The next day at the lockers he was checking his face in Tatums mirror for any bruises and when Tatum was hitting him with her sucker he says "easy" "easy. -Billy was always 1 handed with his killing if he had a knife if didn't he resorts to choking except for Tatum he used the opportunity with the garage door. He gave a signal look to Stu at the front door that Tatum was dead. Stu uses both hands when using the knife and resorts to other tactics if doesn't have knife like the both times he fought Sidney. -Stu was the one that called Dewey about the abandon car and also called Randy about the principal after the whole "I'll be right back". Billy killed the principal so they can use him as a deploy for later that night to get rest of the guests to leave so the real party can began. - Dewey was supposed to die in this one but Wes Craven and everyone just loved David Arquette and how he played his character. They all fell in love with him so at the end Wes had Dewey do the thumbs up to show the audience that he survived.

To answer your question when the news lady put that camera in and started recording, yes that would be illegal. You would be filming minors with out consent then watching it. Also because it’s filming them and then watching it with someone else all with out consent. I don’t think you would go to like prison since its not serious like you know murder or the nasty but it’s still not right to film minors

Puggapillar: It would be cool if there was a Freddy Kruger vs Jason Movie Freddy VS Jason: what am I. A roach? 😟

The reason Tatum did not try to open the door was because she remembered the door was still locked or she didn’t have enough time to open the door

17:18 Someone may have already said this, but the interviewer who asks, "So how does it feel to be almost brutally butchered?" is Linda Blair, aka Regan, the little girl from The Exorcist.

Definitely need to do the sequels… they’re really good!

When Randy (Jamie Kennedy) was watching Halloween by himself and telling Jamie Lee Curtis to turn around that he's behind you. Wes wanted to play on that with their really names. It was him telling himself that he Jamie needed to turn around lol. The way Wes Craven creates those little things is amazing and brilliant! - Also, I don't know if you caught on to it but the whole last 20-30mins everything that was happening around the house it was perfectly mirroring with what was happening in Halloween lol.

I love drew Barrymore she's going to make this movie so good. Yes yes she is. But not in the way that you thought haha Edit Drew is the main character, clearly she's going to be fine. Oh dear.

Gale was a tabloid journalist so it’s perfectly logical for teens to watch her show. She basically reported a lot of gossip, though she wanted to move on to higher things.

I'm so glad you're doing the whole of the scream franchise!!!!! So excited! X

the scene with randy and ghostface is extra meta when you know his actors name is also jaime

After watching your Fear Street trilogy reaction, I couldn't believe you hadn't seen so many of the horror movies that it references. So glad to see you getting into it and starting with Scream. I saw this movie when I was 14 in a theater by myself because the opening was too intense for my mom and she bailed on me to another movie.

I got to watch this yesterday thanks to being a patreon member 🙌🏻 Genuinely enjoyed watching your reaction to seeing this for the first time. I forgot how meta it is

7:19 that's the point, ANYONE could buy that costume so you wouldn't know who.

Billy in the upstairs with Sidney basically made a big time reference which comes into play in Scream 5. Randy's actor's real name is Jamie too, so when he said Jamie don't turn around he was being meta too :D. Randy was by far my favorite of the film series. Fred the Janitor is actually Wes Craven himself paying homage to his other film series, NOES.

"Just scream." She just got choked xD Ain't no noise coming from her for the rest of her extremely short life

I really appreciate you giving "Loud Warnings". As someone on the spectrum, it really helps with the accessibility of content. Thank you!

90s kids were so carefree. No school shootings, pre 911, and covid type things to scare everyone. So when something like this happened, yeah it was dumb, but we didn’t really know any better. Really was such a cool time to be dumb lol

You're vids make my day and your jokes are always the best

Okay but why is your commentary top tier? Instantly had to subscribe and will be watching more from you.

Wes Craven was the janitor in the Freddy costume. Also, it's funny how he mixed his name with John Carpenter, director of the first 3 Halloween movies.

Hellraiser is a well known Horror/Slasher movie from 1987 that has many Sequels. The Janitor dressed like Freddy Krueger IS Wes Craven. It REALLY Is Meta because the actor playing Randy is really named Jamie when he’s saying “Jamie look behind you”

This was brilliant! Watching you watch one of my favorite horror movies with such fresh eyes. This was a blast!

This is SO refreshing seeing someone react to this who has never seen it before

post credits scenes in 1996 ☠

Women’s bathrooms really are like that though - ladies just love talking to each other across the stalls

Matthew Lillard is one of my many favorite actors. I just ❤LOVE his performances in films!😊

The fact that you just said you only know the characters the killer is referencing but you don’t know and haven’t seen the movies… you hurt my horror loving heart 😭😭

“That wasn’t the only scream that year sorry dad” DAD!!!😂😂😂😂

this made my day 10 times better. I'm so excited for your next video you deserve so much more subscribers

Kevin Williamson wrote the story, originally titled Scary Movie, and based the plot loosely on the 1990 case of the Gainesville Ripper. It was a string of murders in a small town... Then it was changed to "Scream" cause the Ghostface costume was a close resemble to the Scream painting. The Ghostface costume was originally going to be all white but Wes Craven said it was to much like the KKK so he did the black robe with white face. Then the title "Scary Movie" ended up being used for the parody movies. The 1st Scary Movie was making fun of Scream, Scream 2, I know what you did last summer and the matrix.

If they make a movie about this who'll play Sydney. They should get neve Campbell. Shed nail it lol.

These are some horror franchises to check out. A nightmare on elm street Halloween Friday the 13th Child's play Evil dead Saw Wrong turn

Definitely the first time I've seen someone watch this and see Billy and NOT immediately say "oh yeah, he's the killer" 😂

Haha!! The watch along is hilarious! 🤣 your face when they spoiled Friday 13th for you!!! 😂 also “it’s Drew Barrymore they can’t kill he off” 😂😂😂😂

I watch videos from this channel exclusively for all the dad jokes. And I love all of them!

Glad I caught your channel man! Love your energy and commentary 👌🏼

You are without a doubt the most underestimated RU-vidr

When I first saw this I was so pissed when shaggy died

Legit just brought scream on dvd a few days ago and you do this to me hahahah you should watch scary movie 1(it's a funny parody of scream)or jeepers creepers or the ritual

That little clip of Pedro Pascal in GoT with the super Mario sounds is even funnier now that he did that super Mario skit in SNL 😂

Loved the reaction my dude. Now on to Scream 2, Scream 3, and Scream 4!😁

"I love Drew Barrymore. She's gonna make this movie so good." Uhh..... nope. Anyway, enjoyed your reaction. All the best.

Dude I swear ur so entertaining it’s 5:30 am where I live and I’m up watching ur videos laughing my head off at all the jokes you make

“How can you kill drew Barrymore” because Neve Fuckin Campbell baby

Dang you reacted to my favorite horror movie! That’s cool! I loved your Fear Street Reactions!

Great movie. Scream 2 is just as good. Look forward to your reaction.

Hellraiser is a brutal horror movie series that Pinhead comes from

Why nobody have noticed that Billy's motive is the same one of Happy Birthday to Me's killer? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Hey mate! Appreciatin & enjoyin your work! New sub here man😊 Love from Brisbane ❤🇦🇺

Post credit scenes were rare but during credit scenes and mid-credit scenes were a thing.

Man, I went & rewatched this when I saw u'd put out the 2nd [scream] & I'm so glad I did! U hav pure gold lines every min mate! Tho my fave wd hav2 b ur "Was Carpenter" joke 😄 just after we saw Wes moppin the floors!(even tho u didn't know it @ the time I don't believe!)! Thanx again 4 ur gr8 work, always enjoyable!👍 ❤🇦🇺

so glad i found you, ur jokes are hilarious and stupidly funny :D

Ok but you need to continue on with Scream 2, 3 and 4

It’s so wrong how everyone voted for this movie first when it references all the movies you hadn’t seen yet at this time 😂

Not sure if this has been said but the scream (ironic) when Sidney stabbed him with the umbrella was genuine neve Campbell missed the vest he was wearing

"He's not mentally stable enough to be a police officer." That has to be a joke, right?

Yeah I think I'm doing okay. 🥴 Your humour is so refreshing, I hope you keep this up. 🙄 I was so waiting for the Scream for Ice Cream line. 😁🍦🍿👍🤣

Not me about to binge you watching this entire series I'm just in the mood for it!

She had to run up the stairs because she locked the front door she originally was planning to run out of.

21:28 well the kids might think it's Happy Days now.

This man just said spoilers to the first Friday the 13th movie about mrs.voorhees being the killer when everyone should’ve been watched that 😭😭

First time watching, fun reaction! Please watch Nightmare on Elm st & Hellraiser sometime!

Loved the video and keep up the good work this was worth the wait!

The voters to that poll did you a disservice. You needed to watch the classics first before Scream. It makes it even better.

1. Dammit, man. I have been waiting for this video forever and you upload it during the day when I sleep for my nightshift so now I'm late to the party. Ugh. 2. I realize we kinda did a disservice to you having you watch this one first bc there are so many references (and spoilers) for the other other movies here. 3. I live for your dad jokes and your laugh (especially when you are laughing at your own jokes lol)

that reporter that asked her how it feels to almost be brutally butchered is Linda Blair from The Exorcist

You asked why Randy (Jamie Kennedy) was talking weird at the beginning of the movie and he was imitating comedian Jerry Lewis

The new scream 5 looks so gory and amazing just like the other but won't be goofy