Moderately so — Scream mixes scares with other modes. As a whodunnit film, it scored 6.0/10 for fear, 6.5/10 for atmosphere, and 8.0/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in Scream?

Scream has 19 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like Scream?

Scream is tagged as whodunnit, teen, slasher on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Scream

1996 · R · 1h 51m

Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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Curator Score

8.0

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Based on 1 curator rating

Built on fear and gore.

Jump scares

Scream has 19 jump scares. Compare counts

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8.0Overall

Fear6.0

Gore6.0

Atmosphere6.5

Intensity5.0

Genres

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Details

Budget$15M

Box office$173M

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Starring

David Arquette as Dewey Riley · Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott · Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers · Matthew Lillard as Stu Macher · Rose McGowan as Tatum Riley · Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis · Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks · W. Earl Brown as Kenny Brown

Production

Dimension Films, Woods Entertainment

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