Scream (1996 film)/Trivia

• Actor Allusion: Back then, Jenny McCarthy was a bit of a professional Dumb Blonde type who'd gained notoriety posing for Playboy and had had plastic surgery at 19; while on the phone with her agent, Sarah briefly grabs her breasts and seems... displeased with their state.
• Billing Displacement: Neve Campbell always billed second to David Arquette, despite being the lead. The reason for this is that the actors are billed alphabetically.
• Dawson Casting: All of the teen characters in the original are played by actors who were old enough to drink at the time.
• The Danza: Both the character (Jill) and her actress (Emma) share the same last name (Roberts).
  • Although Maureen's maiden name had been established as Roberts since the third film. Her sister Kate probably never got married, since she kept "Roberts" and passed it on to Jill.
• Enforced Method Acting: Wes Craven made Drew Barrymore think that he was going to kill her dog in order to get the right emotional response out of her; that's kinda fucked, bluntly put.
  • Not quite. He was actually reminding her of a story she had seen about a sociopathic kid who had lit his dog on fire.
  • Craven also fulfilled this trope by making sure that none of the actors had met Roger L. Jackson prior to filming and the telephone scenes were filmed with him actually on the phone.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Monica Geller! Pacey! Portia de Rossi! Jamie Kennedy! Raylan Givens!! Woody! Croooowww! No, wait, not that last one.
  • It is impossible to watch the scene in the first film where the principal chews out two troublemakers and not think "The Fonz has declared you uncool". And a greater shame there is not.
  • Cherry Darling/Paige Halliwell was killed by a garage door and Kronk is Kitty Kowalski's bodyguard. Let's also not forget McDreamy as a cop, Shaggy as a killer and Buffy as a sorority girl. Addie Singer, Claire Bennett, Veronica Mars, Sookie Stackhouse, Annie Edison, Seth Cohen, Anthony Anderson, President Laura Roslin, and Dr. Dakota Block will all have parts in the fourth film.
  • So Daniel Matthews re-located to Woodsboro.
  • Who would have thought Nancy Drew and that kid from Signs would be able to hatch a murder scheme?
  • The voice of the first movie's Raphael was Kincaid's partner in Scream 3. They even lampshade it with a pizza joke, with his character asking who ate all the pizza.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: The Japanese dubbed version of all the movies has a very top-notch cast, especially from the Mecha genre:
  • Sidney Prescott is Rally Vincent, Ouka Nagisa and Shirin Bakhtiar
  • Billy Loomis is Lockon Stratos and Ryusei Date.
  • Stuart Macher is Shagia Frost and Tekkaman Blade
  • Randy Meeks is Kabuto Yakushi, Basara Nekki and Axel Almar.
  • Casey Becker is Rei Ayanami, Lina Inverse and Christina McKenzie. (And just like her American peer, she also gets the Dead Star Walking treatment.)
  • Dwight Riley is Itsuki Kisaragi and Roger Smith.
  • Tatum Riley is Li Kouran and Anthy Himemiya.
  • Maureen Evans is Sumire Kanzaki and Rachel.
  • Principal Himbry is Adell's father.
  • Mark Kincaid is Jerrid Mesa, Kakashi Hatake and Reiji Arisu.
  • Cotton Weary is Zagato.
  • Mickey is Garrod Ran and Eikichi Onizuka.
  • Phil Stevens is Ingram Prinsken.
  • Sarah Darling is Karin Kanzuki.
  • Roman Bridger is Treize Kushrenada, Andrew Waltfield and Raidiese F. Branstein.
  • Tom Prinze is Heero Yuy and Masaki Andoh. (Also counts as Hilarious in Hindsight and a Actor Allusion of sorts, since both of them are involved in explosions, except that Heero survives and Tom didn't.)
  • Jill Roberts is Mio Akiyama and Houki Shinonono
  • Kirby Reed is Feltd Grace and Desil Galett as a kid.
  • Judy Hicks is Marida Cruz and Risty.
  • Olivia Morris is Micott Bartsch and Lala Satalin Deviluke.
  • Robbie Mercer is Shingo Makiba.
  • Curiously enough (or not), most of the Japanese voice cast voice their respective expies in the Japanese dub of Scary Movie, especially Michiko Neya dubbing the heroine of both films.
• Playing Against Type: Well, Emma Roberts was certainly an interesting choice to play a Serial Killer.
  • Well, her father is Eric Roberts after all..
  • Courteney Cox specifically sought out the role of Gale in order to avoid being typecast as Monica Gellar.
• Reciprocal Fiction Paradox: In the first scene, the film Halloween is the subject of one of the questions the killer asks, and later Halloween is shown at a party (with one character loudly protesting at the mistakes Laurie Strode is making. Likewise, in the Halloween sequel, Halloween: H20, a couple of characters are watching Scream 2 in one scene.
  • Also, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the duo stumbles upon the the filming of a Scream movie. The first movie in the series had a poster for Clerks, a movie in the same continuity as Jay and Silent Bob.
  • Though it's not explicitly stated to be a Scream film, it could have been a Stab movie, as some fans think.
• The Red Stapler: Caller ID systems became so ubiquitous after this film came out (any guesses as to why?) that it was even lampshaded in the sequel, where Sidney has one and uses it to catch a Ghostface-imitating prankster.
• Romance on the Set: David Arquette and Courteney Cox.
• Similarly Named Works: There is also a 1981 slasher film called Scream (1981 film).
• Sleeper Hit: A very rare example of a movie that debuted at #3 at the box office and then slowly climbed up to #1 thanks to strong word-of-mouth. No movie since has been able to accomplish that feat.
• Stunt Casting: Drew Barrymore as the second victim. (Everyone forgets that her boyfriend Steve was the first on-screen victim.)
  • Hmm... looks like Ghostface has a question for another trivia game.

Ghostface: Who was the first victim in the first Scream movie?
Soon-to-die teen: It was Casey! Drew Barrymore's character! I've seen that movie a hundred times!
Ghostface: Then you should know it was Casey's boyfriend who got killed first! I'm sorry, but it looks like your boyfriend is about to follow in his footsteps.

• Technology Marches On: Or more specifically, access to technology marches on. When Billy drops his cell phone while comforting Sidney after her first attack by the killer, he becomes an immediate suspect because the killer was using one. Back in 1996, cell phones were still rare enough that this would look suspicious. Today, not so much.
• Throw It In: At the end of the first movie, Billy hitting Stu with the phone in anger was unintentional, as the phone accidentally slipped out of Skeet Ulrich's hands due to the fake blood. Stu screaming "You hit me with the phone, dick!" was actually Matthew Lillard's reaction.
  • In the scene were Billy is attacked by Sydney, his actor, Skeet Ulrich, scream is actually real. As when he was hit by the umbrella, the stuntwoman couldn't see where she was aiming and wound up hitting a wire in his chest he had gotten during from surgery at a young age. Touching it ends up causing him some pain.
  • Likewise in Scream 3 when Roman is stabbed by Sydney who pops up from behind a bar and hits his back with icepick it missed the pad and actually hit flesh. His scream is genuine.
  • The casting of Drew Barrymore in the role was her idea; she was originally cast as Sidney, but felt that audiences would react more strongly to seeing a big-name actress like her getting whacked early.
• What Could Have Been: In Scream 3 there was originally going to be a second killer; Angelina.
  • In Scream 2, originally ended with a shot with another Ghostface watching over from the campus' bell tower. There is fan speculation that it is Roman, under the mask.
  • According to this interview and other articles, the plot of Scream 3 originally revolved around Sidney's return to Woodsboro with Stu returning as the main killer, but the Columbine massacre necessitated a massive rewriting of the entire script.
  • Drew Barrymore was originally cast to play Sidney, but then she came up with the idea of having the biggest star in the film be killed off in the first fifteen minutes to throw off the viewers.
  • Cotton was originally intended to be an antagonist in Scream 2, fighting Sidney to the death after Mrs. Loomis's downfall. The idea was later scrapped and he got his Big Damn Heroes moment.