Scream follows the character of Sidney Prescott, a high school student in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer.

In the original film, Ghostface is a disguise used by two teenagers during their killing spree.

Casey receives a flirty phone call from an unknown person, asking, "What's your favorite scary movie?" However, the caller turns sadistic and Casey's parents come home to find her corpse hanging from a tree.

Scream itself subverts the idea that sex marks a character for certain death when Sidney sleeps with Billy who turns out to be one of the killers.

The mask is inspired by The Scream, a painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

When Casey's parents return home to find something wrong, her father tells her mother to "go to the McKenzies'", which is exactly what Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) tells Lindsey (Kyle Richards) and Tommy (Brian Andrews) in Halloween (1978).

Tatum's neck is crushed by a garage door.

Sidney and Stu?! Now that's messed up. Campbell and Lillard became an item while filming Scream and dated for two years.

In Scream 2, Spelling actually does portray Sidney in the fictional movies Stab and Stab 2, based on the Woodsboro murders.

Kenny is watching a "live" feed of the party with a 30 second delay, which eventually costs him his life.