: The film subverted expectations by revealing there were two killers—Billy Loomis (Sidney’s boyfriend) and Stu Macher—rather than just one.
The 1996 film Scream , directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson, is credited with revitalizing the dying slasher genre by blending traditional horror with a self-aware, meta-fictional approach. The movie focuses on Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a high school student in the fictional town of Woodsboro who becomes the target of a masked killer known as Ghostface. ScreamMovie | 1996
Watch Gale Weathers' final news report from the original 1996 Woodsboro murders: : The film subverted expectations by revealing there