Crime · Horror · Mystery
American
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min
A year after her mother's murder, a high-school student in a small California town finds herself stalked by a masked caller who seems to treat horror films as a rulebook. Part whodunit, part slasher, part dark comedy, it keeps asking whether knowing the genre makes anyone safer.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of 1990s horror that closed the first great slasher era and opened a knowing, ironic phase; the template for the genre-aware thriller that followed.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a conversation between the film and you: it keeps testing what you expect from a horror movie.
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