Scream

What more could a horror-buff ask for? Scream has it all. Movie trivia and spoofs, twisted ending and beginning, lovable characters played by talented actors/actresses, and is even scary the second time you see it.  The film follows Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a teenager trying to put her life back together after the brutal murder of her loving mother. The accused murderer, Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber), is locked up and is waiting  to be put to death by the gas chamber. Out of the blue, mysterious killings start to happen. The nosey, local news reporter, Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), is scooping out this mystery of why these killings started happening exactly one year after Weary was arrested. Weathers believes that Weary is innocent of the murder of Sidney's mother and isn't too far from proving Sidney's mother's real killer may still be loose. Could the killer be Sidney's boyfriend, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich)? Sidney's best friend, Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan)? Tatum's brother, the town's deputy, Deputy Dwight `Dewey' Riley (David Arquette)? Tatum's boyfriend, Stuart (Matthew Lillard). Sidney's secret admirer, the town's mastermind, who knows everything about everything, Geeky Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy)? Or even the money-hungry fame-seeking Gale Weathers herself?  The big reveal is definitely worth the wait.  Followed by three inferior sequels.