Based on 255 votes and 31 reviews.
The worst
A cliche slasher ripoff of Halloween. Puerile and wasteful. A movie for idiot fan boys.
Crap. Parasitic trash. Ironic that Wes Craven saw his biggest career success with his worst work. Kevin Williamson has no talent but lots of good luck, and good luck is enough, apparently. Nothing at all scary here, and that's to be expected given the overly trodden ground covered here. This isn't a horror film but a very poor imitation of one. This is a total fake from start to finish. Avoid!!!
Garbage. Only ignoramuses who don't understand the horror genre at all like this trash.
Satire at its best tbh. Great cast, memorable lines, great death scenes! whats your favorite scary movie?
This movie reawakened horror genre and was the first of it's kind, its been copied many times since The first time you see it you will be guessing the killers identity until the end!
Amazing I love this movie, I’ve seen it a hundred times
For you millennials: This movie set the bar for almost every horror movie that came after it for the next decade. Before this, horror movies were cliche slasher ripoffs of Halloween (1978). This movie changed that completely! Unfortunately Hollywood did what they always do and just repackaged Scream for the next 10 years in the form of every other horror movie. So if you didn't live through the Freddy and Jason era of the 80s then this movie won't mean as much to you. And if you didn't start watching horror until after 1996 this movie won't seem very original. It's been copied and plagiarized a thousand times since its release, so just understand that going in. But in it's day, it literally broke the mold. It gave us better acting, a script where you couldn't tell who was and wasn't going to die in the first 6 minutes, and an original ending. This movie blew us away.
Amazing suspense.
Totally insulting. Worst movie ever.