Your birth year
2006
Scream
1996
Scream is 10 years older than you
It's from 1996, before you were born.
- Director
- Wes Craven
- Genre
- Slasher / horror
- Star
- Neve Campbell
- Released
- 1996
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About
As of 2026, it's 30 years old.
Scream revived the slasher in 1996 by being smarter than it: its teenage victims have all seen horror movies and openly discuss the 'rules' for surviving one, even as they get picked off by a killer in a now-iconic ghost-face mask. It's a slasher and a witty critique of slashers at the same time.
The shocking opening, the meta commentary, and that mask reinvented the genre and launched a franchise.
Scary, clever, and self-aware, Scream is the horror movie that knew exactly what horror movies do — and used it to terrify you anyway.
