For horror buffs who grew up with the likes of Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, and the other slasher killers of the 1980s, Wes Craven's "Scream" was the best thing since sliced cheerleaders at a slumber party in a sorority house. We'd all tired of clownish teenagers making bad decisions like they'd never seen a scary movie before, and the film's trailer summed up its premise perfectly: This time, our knife-fodder characters knew all the tropes and there were certain rules one had to follow to survive. It was a witty and inventive twist on the hackneyed old formula, and the cherry on top was that it starred Drew Barrymore.

Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson had an even bigger surprise waiting for eager gore hounds when "Scream" arrived in December 1996. The film opens w

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