Scream (1996)

Directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, Scream (1996) follows high school student Sidney Prescott as she becomes the target of a masked killer known as Ghostface in the small town of Woodsboro.

As a series of brutal murders shocks the community, Sidney and her friends begin to suspect that the killer may be someone within their own circle. Blending sharp humor with suspense and shocking violence, Scream revitalized the slasher genre and became one of the most influential horror films of the 1990s.