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Today, we are reviewing the iconic 90s slasher, Scream. This movie was directed by Wes Craven, and it was written by Kevin Williamson.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
I don't know why I'm nervous.
Oh my gosh.
I'm not nervous.
It's fine.
I do this all the time.
It's just because I have a liveaudience watching me right now.
I'm on TikTok live and I'mscared.
It's fine.
Okay.
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Hey y'all, welcome back orwelcome to the pickle jar.
This is What's the Dill.
I'm your host, McKenzie Pickle.
It's officially week two ofSpooktober.
We're watching a differentHalloween slash horror movie
every week during the month ofOctober.
And this week we are reviewingone of the most iconic 90s
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horror films, Scream.
Grab your popcorn and your ghostface mask and let's get into the
review.
Before we jump into the review,I want to give a little
background and some history.
I did do some research.
The film came out in 1996.
It actually came out inDecember, which is not a super
popular time, or at least notback then, to release a movie
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that wasn't Christmas related,especially a horror film that
kind of screams Halloween, youknow?
Um, it was directed by WesCraven and written by Kevin
Williamson.
And Scream actually revitalizedthe horror genre and slasher
film specifically during a timewhere the genre was experiencing
a lull.
In the early 90s, there was kindof a lower rate in producing
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horror films or even peopleenjoying them and everything.
But 1996, Scream comes out andit sort of gave this rebirth to
this genre and it became iconic.
Also, fun fact the movie wasoriginally named Scary Movie,
which, if you don't know, thereis a popular movie franchise
called Scary Movie.
It came out in the early 2000soriginally.
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There's been a few installmentsof it.
But Scary Movie is a franchisethat sort of parodies and makes
fun of movies in the horrorgenre, slasher genre, and
mystery genre.
And I thought it was prettyinteresting because, you know,
Scream was almost named ScaryMovie, but they changed it to
Scream.
Then Scary Movie hits the scene.
And they, again, make fun of andparody a lot of popular horror
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movies, but the plot of thescary movie franchise, for the
most part, follows a similarplot line to I Know What You Did
Last Summer, and most notablyScream.
So I wonder if that's why theynamed the Scary Movie franchise
Scary Movie because they knewthat it Scream was almost named
Scary Movie.
I don't know, that might bewishful thinking, but it's
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pretty interesting.
Scream does take a satiricalapproach to the slasher film.
It references so many popularhorror films, the two most
reference being Nightmare on ElmStreet and Halloween.
However, there are lots of othericonic references, like little
one-liners, maybe somethingsimilar in a different shot.
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There are just tons of littlereferences you could go through
and pick them all out.
I have read a few articles thattalked about them.
I'm not going to talk about themall here, but it's pretty
interesting.
If you want to go see everyspecific reference, definitely
go check out the Scream Wiki.
It's pretty cool.
I think the satire is what makesthis film so incredible to me.
And specifically, I think thatsatire and sort of making fun of
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the horror movie tropes that wesee pretty much in every horror
movie.
I think it was really wellexecuted by the character of
Randy.
You know, more characters dopoint out the hypocrisy of the
spectacle of horror movies andstereotypes and things like
that.
I mean, Sydney herself says oneand then does the exact same
trope.
We'll talk about that later.
But Randy is the character thatis this huge horror movie buff.
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He knows everything and he likesto give the rules for how to
survive a horror movie, like allthese different things, and he
constantly has lines that pointyou to the plot of the movie and
what's happening.
It's pretty interesting.
He's very meta in his lines.
I don't think he understandsthat he is doing that in some
parts, but he serves as sort ofthis reality check throughout
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the whole movie.
And he does tell us what ishappening.
Like he tells us who the killeris at the very beginning of the
movie, but no one believes him.
One last thing before we getinto my notes.
Casting Drew Barrymore, who wasvery famous already at the time,
I feel like everybody knows DrewBarrymore now, especially, but
back then, like she was a hugechild star and she was really
big in the 90s.
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Everyone knew her.
They originally wanted her to beSydney, but she decided to take
the role of Casey, which I thinkis iconic because Casey is
killed.
Spoiler alert, in the first 15minutes of the film, I kind of
wish I could time travel to gosee that in the movie theater
when it happened, because I justknow that that shocked everyone.
It shocked me here watching it.
You know that a lot of peoplewent to go see that movie
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because Drew Barrymore is in it,you know?
It was a very good marketingtechnique of having this big
name actress in this horrorfilm, especially in a lull of
horror movies, and she's in thisslasher film.
Everyone thinks she's the maincharacter.
Because I mean, if you look atthe movie posters, she's very
prominent, especially for acharacter that is killed in the
first 12 minutes.
I believe the opening scene doeslast 12 minutes, so less than
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15.
It was actually her idea, asstated to be Casey and to be
killed first.
To Drew Barrymore, she wantedthis role because she said, you
know, having someone like her inthis film where they think that
she's gonna be the maincharacter, but she gets killed
off like immediately, that wouldshock everyone.
It'll keep up suspense, and itwould also force you to throw
out everything that you thoughtyou knew about slasher films.
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And that's exactly what thisdoes.
I mean, back then, and even now,sometimes, if you have a big
name in a horror movie, they'remost likely making it to the
end.
But having Drew Barrymore diewithin 12 minutes of the movie
starting, I just know thatrocked everyone's world.
And I think that it's iconic.
She's an icon.
What I want to do next issomething I really enjoy.
Let me know if you don't likeit.
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If you don't, I will stop doingthis.
I think it's cool.
I don't know a lot of peoplethat do this when they review
movies.
However, they might.
Don't quote me on that.
Okay, what whatever.
It's fine.
I'm not saying I came up withthis.
I didn't.
I think it's kind of fun for youto see what's going on in my
head while I'm watching a movie.
I've done this before, but whenI'm watching a movie that I know
I'm gonna review, I activelytake notes while I'm watching.
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I think it's really cool for meto read you my notes as I
watched it happen so that youcould see what my genuine live
reaction was during the movie.
No, you're not watching me watchit.
However, you kind of get alittle break into my head, into
what I was thinking, into whatmy actual experience was while
watching it.
I'm just want to read out allthese notes to you and maybe
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we'll stop during a couple ofthem, talk about them together.
But if you would rather me justcontinue doing the whole, like I
take notes and then I summarizethem, you don't actually get to
hear my raw, real-time notes,then let me know that too.
For now, for this episode, weare going to jump right into the
notes.
First note, Drew Barrymore, oh,we just talked about this.
Drew Barrymore being cast justto be killed at the beginning is
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goaded, iconic.
Quote, I'll gut you like a fish.
Okay, Grinch.
Oh, I remember writing this.
Ghostface says, I'll gut youlike a fish.
And if you don't know, How theGrinch Stole Christmas, the live
action movie, is one of myall-time favorite movies.
I did a review on this podcast,so go check it out.
I love Jim Carrey.
I love that movie.
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Obviously, How the Grinch StoleChristmas, the live action came
out after Scream.
I was simply just that's wheremy brain went.
But it's cool.
The Grinch references Scream.
The voice modulation is so good,it's iconic, you know?
Quote, his name wouldn't have tobe Steve, would it?
Chills, OMG.
That was crazy when Casey'stalking about her boyfriend.
I have a lot of notes for thisopening scene, and it's only 12
minutes.
Quote, I want to play a game.
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Okay, Saw reference.
I associate wanna play a game orplaying a game, that kind of
thing, with Saw, and I did lookit up.
Scream is actually first, itcame out before Saw.
So it's the first iteration ofthe whole playing a game type of
thing.
However, it becomes Saw's thinglater because Jigsaw is so into
puzzles and things like that.
But it started with Scream.
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Pretty cool.
All caps.
OMG Steve's guts, that issickening.
So psycho.
That was crazy.
I did not expect to see that.
That was really gory.
Again, the originator of theplay a game statement, not Saw.
Nice.
Asking questions about horrormovies is so cool.
Of them, you know, that's thegame that they're playing is
asking questions about horrormovies.
All caps.
Why would you go outside, youidiot?
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All caps.
Also, stop looking inside.
The next five are in all caps,okay?
OMG, OMG, OMG, iconic openingscene, OMG.
The shot of her on the ground,OMG.
OMG, OMG, OMG, the bloodyhandle, the mask.
Casey is dead.
OMG.
I was really intense whilewatching this.
I was on the edge of my seat.
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Killing her right outside whenher parents are home is insane.
That was crazy to me.
The killer is actively at theirhouse, and the parents are
investigating the whole jiffypop popcorn thing, which by the
way, really cool time element ofshowing how quickly all of this
progressed from just likeregular to chaotic.
That was pretty cool.
I loved having that.
All caps, OMG Casey hanging iscrazy.
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I love how it jumps from that tomy literal next note being Billy
and Sydney, aw, what?
Oh man.
Her shoving his hand, ha ha ha.
Quote, would you settle for a PG13 relationship?
LMAO.
This is mainly a lot of these.
I did put direct quotes in therebecause I thought they were so
fun.
All caps.
OMG, OMG, Courtney Cox, OMG,OMG.
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I'm a huge friends fan.
Tatum, OMG, hi.
I loved her outfits.
Her costumes were great.
Do we know Sydney?
Question mark.
I later looked it up.
Dewey is Tatum's older brother,but I was just so confused.
I was like, what?
All caps.
Matthew Lillard, oh my king! Ilove Matthew Lillard.
You know, I'm wearing aScooby-Doo shirt today.
I I love Matthew Lillard, okay?
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I just love him so much.
Quote (09:37):
That is so sexist.
The killer could be a woman.
That's from Tatum.
And then Stu starts talkingabout, no, it would have to be a
man, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
And then I'm pretty sure Sidneyasks, you know, how could you
even go to person?
And then Stu goes into this verydetailed of like how you could
do it.
So I wrote, Stu, what the hell?
And then I said, Randy iskilling me, LMAO.
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I love Randy.
But the next round I put, Billygiving Stu that look.
Question mark, question mark,OMG, it's kind of obvious.
Okay, spoiler alert, I went intowatching this movie knowing that
Billy and Stu were accomplicesfor this.
So I did know from thebeginning.
So I understand that my view ofthe movie was tainted in that
aspect.
So I did try to watch it fromthe point of view of I don't
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know anything.
I don't know who the killerwould be.
So some of my notes do reflectthat.
However, I do think that thatscene of him being like, stop,
like, he's basically telling himto stop talking with that look.
And it's pretty creepy.
It lets you, that's your firstsuspicion of what are you doing?
Who is that?
You know, who's the killer?
I think it might be Billy.
All caps.
Maureen Prescott was found,raped, and murdered, and that
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was Sydney's mom.
Is Randy the voice questionmark?
He loves horror movies.
Again, he's one of the obviouschoices because he does love
horror movies.
My next note, quote, I'm notRandy.
Okay.
Some of my notes just crack meup.
I can't.
All caps.
Sydney, why would you gooutside, you idiot?
And you left the door open.
OMG.
Quote, you hang up on me, you'lldie just like your mother.
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That was cold.
Chilling, actually.
I was shocked.
Some of the things they say,like, just insane.
Okay.
Then I put, wait, Billy knewshe'd be alone at the house when
Ghostface attacks her because hewas there the night before when
her dad said he was leaving andgoing out of town.
Duh.
Okay, so earlier in the nightwhen she's talking to Ghostface,
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Sydney, she says something abouthorror movies and says, like,
it's insulting, you know, likesome girl who can't act runs
upstairs instead of out thefront door during like a killing
sequence in a slasher film.
And then she is forced to run upthese stairs instead of out the
front door because she lockedthe front door, can't get out in
time.
Ghostface is chasing her.
So she runs upstairs.
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She does the exact thing thatshe said was stupid about horror
movies.
Hence the whole satire thingthat Scream's got going on.
It's so good.
I love when movies do that.
I put, then he drops the phone.
OMG OMG.
This is when Billy just sohappens to be there to rescue
Sydney.
All caps.
Dewey OMG.
Arresting Billy, OMG.
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I'm sorry, there's a lot of OMGsin here.
Dewey is Tatum's brother.
That's when I found it out.
Okay.
It took me a while.
Just all caps.
Gail! Then when Billy's beinginterviewed, I said, it looks
like there's blood on Billy'scollar.
All caps.
OMG Sydney punched Gail.
OMG.
All caps.
OMG calling Tatum's houseinstead for Sydney OMG.
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Then I put, but they called sothat Billy could get off and out
of jail because Sydney wouldtell the police, you know, that
Ghostface called her while shewas at Tatum's house, which
means Billy has an alibi.
Like that's pretty crazy.
It throws them off the scent.
I think they really did thinklike they were very smart in the
details for some of that.
Framing cotton for the murder ofher mom.
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Oh, I put, quote, couldn't havebeen me.
I was in jail.
Nice.
Way to go, Billy.
Like, okay, he's being a littledefensive.
All caps.
Billy, what?
Saying it's been a year, youshould get over it.
About her mom dying.
When you killed her, first ofall.
First of all, I put, what, what,what, what?
She lost her mom.
And then, whoa, Mr.
Hembry throwing those shearsaround.
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I love them making everyone seemlike they could be it.
That was crazy.
He was like, Well, how would youfeel if you had your guts pulled
on the outside or something?
And he like dragged these likeshears down this student
t-shirt.
Hello.
That was so creepy.
It so could have been him, butobviously it wasn't.
Then, like the two girls talkingin the bathroom, I put quote,
her mother was a tramp.
OMG.
Like, that's so insensitive, youknow?
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Also, Billing saying that hismom left and he got over it.
Yeah, by killing Sid's mom.
What do you mean?
Get over it.
Your mom died a year ago.
My mom left my dad and I'm overit now.
No, you're not actually, becauseyou killed her mom.
Not Gail and Dewey flirting.
Parentheses, didn't they getmarried in real life?
Yes, they did.
Courtney Cox and David Arquette,who play respectively, Gail and
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Dewey, met on the set of Screamand they dated for a while and
then they got married, butthey're divorced now.
But they did get married at onepoint.
Not the principal with the mask,OMG, OMG, and then all caps.
Mr.
Hembry killed.
Immediately.
Like, okay, so it's not him.
Wow.
I'm scared.
Randy quoted, prom nightrevisited, OMG, OMG.
He's onto them the whole time.
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Randy is on to Billy and Stu thewhole time.
Maybe not Stu entirely, but he'son to Billy.
And then I put, way to go,Randy, you know it.
Quote, the dad's a red herring.
Billy did it.
Randy?
This is what I mean.
Randy is literally telling theaudience, don't believe that the
dad is the killer becausethere's a lot of, you know, the
dad's missing.
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What happened?
And people were theorizing thather father killed the mom and
tried to kill Sydney.
And Randy straight up is like,the dad is a red herring.
Billy did it.
He's pointing us to thecharacter who is the murderer
the entire time.
The main one at least.
And then I put OMG phone callsfrom Sidney's dad.
And then I put not GailLittering, which I think it was
technically Kenny is his name, Ithink, the TV station cameraman.
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And then I put not Stu in theHefner robe.
He look, he looks so good.
Okay.
I love Matthew Lillard.
And then I put the music is sogood for the scares.
Jamie Lee Curtis mentionedScream Queen, which she is.
Love her.
I have to point out, we're atthe part of the movie where it's
the party scene at Stu's house,which is the longest scene in
the entire movie.
And I did look it up, and funfact, the crew made t-shirts
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that said I survived scene 118because the scene took, I think,
21 days to film just that oneparty scene.
I think it's a 45-minute longsequence, the whole like thing
at Stu's house.
It's just really cool.
I want one of those shirts, youknow?
Anyone have one and can send itto me, please let me know.
All cats, I said, Dewey lettingthe underage kids drink.
Like what?
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He's a deputy.
And he walks into this party andhe's like, you're not old enough
to drink that and takes the beerfrom this kid.
And then he's like, I'm justkidding, just don't drive.
What?
OMG Gail hiding a camera.
That's crazy.
The garage is so freaky.
And then OMG Ghostface.
Tatum.
OMG, OMG, OMG.
Can I be the helpless victim?
OMG, what?
You are the helpless victim.
That's what you are in thatscene.
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All caps.
OMG, OMG, the garage door.
No.
OMG, she got crushed.
No.
That was gruesome.
And then I put Stu, bro, what?
I don't know why I said that.
I don't remember what that sceneis for, but also Stu, bro, what?
All the time.
And then I said, Randy wants tobe with Sid.
Then, oh, then I put, man, Ijust love Stu.
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Okay, clearly, um, I havebittersweet feelings for Stu.
Quote.
It's all a movie.
That is Billy talking to Sydney.
And then he says, you can't pickyour genre.
It's so meta.
It's making fun of itself.
It's pointing to, like, yes,Scream is a movie, you know?
That is when Sydney decides togive up her virginity to Billy,
and they're having this wholehot and heavy session upstairs
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while everyone else in the partyis downstairs watching
Halloween.
And Randy is like narrating whatis happening, and he's saying
there are certain rules tosurvive a horror movie, blah
blah blah blah blah.
And then he says, quote, onlyvirgins can do that.
And he's talking about onlyvirgins can outsmart the killer
and survive and win the wholenight, and they can actually
live.
I did take a horror movie classin college, and that is so
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prevalent in most every horrormovie, especially from when this
came out from before, it'scrazy.
Him saying that as Sydney isdoing this upstairs with Billy,
she is losing the ability tooutsmart him in that instance,
whatever.
And then I wrote down the rulesthat Randy says so one, you can
never have sex, two, you cannever drink or do drugs, and
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three, never ever say, I'll beright back, because you won't.
But then, you know, Stu is like,I'll be right back, whatever,
when he leaves.
And I love Matthew Willard.
Okay, I just love him.
OMG, making Dewey seem creepyand like the killer too.
I thought we'd walk.
And he's like, What?
You're not scared, are you?
Everyone.
It it really does keep youguessing because just when you
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think you know something,something else happens.
Then I put, Do you want anotherbeer from Stu?
But then he says bye toeverybody.
Wasn't the beer in the garagewhere Tatum's body is?
And he doesn't say a word aboutit.
Because he knew, you know,obviously.
And I put, oh Randy, oh no, theyleft him alone.
Which, why would you guys leavehim alone?
Then I said, Everyone isleaving.
OMG Gail and Dewey, becausethat's when they were off alone,
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you know, whatever.
Neil Prescott's car.
He's there, they're worried thathe's still the killer, whatever.
And then after Sydney and Billyhave sex, she says, Your one
phone call.
So who'd you call?
Babe, wrap it up, figure it out.
And Billy's like, Well, I calledmy dad.
And then Sydney says, SheriffBurke called your dad.
And you know, then Billy's like,You still believe that it was
me?
You still believe it?
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Whatever.
Billy, shut up.
We know it was you.
So then Billy's like, What do Ihave to do to prove to you that
I'm not the killer?
And then Ghostface comes in andstabs the crap out of him.
Hello.
I said, OMG, wait, what, Billy?
What?
What?
What?
And then wiping the knife clean,crazy, chilling.
When Ghostface like cleans offBilly's blood and then goes
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after Sid, hello?
Iconic.
And then I just put, OMG, OMG,Sidney.
She fell on top of a boat.
OMG, and she found Tatum.
No.
Then quote, watch out, Jamie.
You know he's around.
There he is.
He's right around the corner.
Randy narrating Halloween whenGhostface is literally walking
up right behind him.
And then he's like, behind you,then turn around.
Randy.
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You turn around.
Ghostface is right there.
Again, the satire, the parody,the making fun of itself.
It is so good.
And then I put, OMG, he killedthe news guy.
Ghostface.
He stabbed her.
Sydney, run.
Gail finding Kidney.
OMG.
But it is kind of funny.
Like, she's like, get off mycar.
And she like is whipping aroundto get him off.
But then, you know, driving awayand then OMG, Gail crashing.
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Then I put, no, Dewey.
Dewey OMG has a knife in theback.
No, no, no.
OMG, do not touch Dewey.
Okay.
I was so upset.
Ghostface holding the keys iscrazy.
That is so taunting.
Locking her in that car.
And then she's trying to do thewhole 9-1-1 thing on the police
radio.
And then I said, not the trunkopening.
Here's where it gets good.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
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Billy?
OMG.
Billy killed Randy.
OMG OMG.
And then Billy says, AnthonyPerkins, psycho.
Wah, wa, wa.
Hello?
The movie reference.
The fact that Billy consistentlyalso references all these movies
that are like Halloween, slash,or whatever, and they're kind of
like his inspiration for things.
Like he's doing scenes fromthose movies or saying lines
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from those movies.
It's it's really chilling.
And then I said, All cats, Stuwith the voice modulator is
crazy.
OMG.
Quote, what's the matter,Sydney?
You look like you've seen aghost.
unknown (20:23):
Oh!
SPEAKER_00 (20:24):
Oh! Oh, it's so good.
And then surprise, Sydney.
Oh! Oh!
unknown (20:30):
Oh!
SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
It is so good! Y'all, there's an edit on
TikTok.
It's got like millions of likes,but it is an edit of Stu and
Billy.
I don't know the song that it'soverlaid, but those are the two
quotes in it.
And yo, it is so good.
You need to go look it up.
And then, you know, Sidney says,F you to Billy.
And then he says, We alreadyplayed that game.
Remember?
See, you lost.
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Oh man, dude.
Cold.
And then I put it in all caps,they framed Cotton Weary.
We knew that.
Okay, we knew.
She's like, What's your motive?
You know, he has a quote and hesays, It's a lot scarier when
there's no motive, Sid.
And then I said, Wait, Studidn't know about the real
motive.
His face is shocked.
When Billy starts talking about,you know, your mom was having an
affair with my dad, which is whymy mom abandoned me, blah, blah,
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blah, blah, blah.
All this stuff.
And then he says something like,abandonment can cause issues.
That's why you had sex with apsychopath.
First of all, crazy.
Second of all, they cut to ashot of Stu where he's kind of
like questioning.
He is Stu has something wrongwith him as well.
He is for sure like not doingokay.
But he does make a face like hedid not know that Sydney's mom
was the cause for Billy's familyproblems.
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He makes that face.
So it's kind of interesting tome.
I don't know.
And then, you know, Billy's gotthe knife to Sydney's throat and
he says, It's after midnight,your mom's anniversary.
What?
That's crazy.
OMG, her dad.
Then I put in quotes perfectending.
And then what the heck?
Billy stabs Stu.
That's crazy.
They're both stabbing each otherto make it more believable.
They're both stabbing each otherso that they can get away with
it.
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But I also think they have somesort of like sick and twisted,
like they enjoy it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Then when it's Stu's turn tostab Billy, Billy's like, stay
to the side, don't go too deep.
So he clearly knows where tostab someone to make them die
versus not die.
And then I said, run, Sydney,run.
Hello?
They're doing this whole likemonologue.
You should take your chance andleave, dude.
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What?
And then Stu says, we get tocarry on and plan the sequel.
Okay, Scream 2.
Like, that's so funny to me.
That's just so satire.
And then Billy said, movies makepsychos creative.
Because I think Sydney sayssomething about you've watched
all these movies and they makeyou a psycho.
And he was like, no, horrormovies or slasher movies,
whatever, make psychos creative.
Like psychos are alreadypsychos, which is that was
that's too deep for me to getinto right now.
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And then I said, Billy stabbedthe crap out of Stu, which is
crazy.
Like, do we think that Billy didthat in a fit of rage, or do we
think that Billy knew he wouldbe killing Stu?
Because he does tell Stu, stayto the side, don't go too deep.
But then he stabs Stu enough tomake Stu start crying.
He's like, I'm feeling woozy,like all this stuff, whatever.
And then I said, yo, way to go,Gil.
Yes, yes.
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And then again, quotes, you cutme too deep from Stu.
This next quote from Stu my momand dad are gonna be so mad at
me.
Stu, what?
That is what you're thinkingabout right now.
A, you're about to die.
B, you just murdered so many ofyour classmates, and are in the
midst of one as well.
What?
And then I put OMG ghost face,stabbed Billy with an umbrella,
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and Halloween was playing withthe closet scene.
Again, parallels.
It was Sid as ghost face,obviously.
Then Stu and Sid fight.
Quote, I always had a thing foryou, Sid, from Stu.
And then she says, like, in yourdreams or something, which
apparently both of those lineswere ad-libbed.
Fun fact.
I just found that out earliertoday.
And then Randy's somehow alive.
Like they're like, You're notdead.
And he said, I thought I shouldbe.
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I never thought I'd be so happyto be a virgin.
Once again, proving his rulesare correct.
That is so funny to me that likehe genuinely there's not a way
on earth that he should still bealive.
Like from that.
I don't know.
Yes, Gail, I knew she was stillalive.
I knew she was faking it.
Because Billy doesn't take thefinal shot and make sure she's
dead because they get distractedand they go off.
I knew Gail was gonna come back.
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Quote from Randy Careful, thisis the moment when the
supposedly dead killer comesback to life and then Billy sits
up, but Sydney just shoots himimmediately.
Okay, Queen.
She's like, not in my movie.
Okay.
Yeah, girl, not in your movie.
This is your movie.
And then, yay, Dewey's alive.
It's really good.
Happy ending, kind of, whatever.
Absolutely incredible movie.
My rating, I'm gonna give thismovie a four and a half out of
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five.
I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyedit.
I can definitely see why it'snow considered a classic in this
genre.
It's funny, satire, it's gory,it's mysterious, and it honestly
does keep you on your toes theentire time.
I love all the references.
I love how unhinged it got.
It really is iconic.
Pickle's pick for this week isAs If We Never Said Goodbye from
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Sunset Boulevard.
Y'all, Nicole does an incrediblejob performing this song.
I've had this song on repeat.
I love it.
I love singing it.
Thank you, Andrew Lloyd Weber,for this masterpiece.
And thank you so much for tuningin however you decided to do so.
Please, please, please, please,please don't forget to like,
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comment, follow all the socials,and definitely share this
podcast with every single personthat you know.
Check out the website as well.
It's www.makinseypickle.com.
Let me know what you thought ofthis episode.
If you liked me reading all mynotes from when I was watching
the movie, let me know what youthink about Scream.
What's your favorite horrormovie?
Do you like horror movies?
What's your favorite Halloweentradition?
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Let's talk in the comments.
Remember, you are loved and youare important.
And now it's time to close thejar.
See you next time.
Bye.
I don't know why I'm nervous.
Oh my gosh.
I'm not nervous.
It's fine.
I do this all the time.
It's just because I have a liveaudience watching me right now.
I'm on TikTok live and I'mscared.
It's fine.
Okay.
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Hey y'all, welcome back orwelcome to the pickle jar.
This is What's the Dill.
I'm your host, McKenzie Pickle.
It's officially week two ofSpooktober.
We're watching a differentHalloween slash horror movie
every week during the month ofOctober.
And this week we are reviewingone of the most iconic 90s
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horror films, Scream.
Grab your popcorn and your ghostface mask and let's get into the
review.
Before we jump into the review,I want to give a little
background and some history.
I did do some research.
The film came out in 1996.
It actually came out inDecember, which is not a super
popular time, or at least notback then, to release a movie
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that wasn't Christmas related,especially a horror film that
kind of screams Halloween, youknow?
Um, it was directed by WesCraven and written by Kevin
Williamson.
And Scream actually revitalizedthe horror genre and slasher
film specifically during a timewhere the genre was experiencing
a lull.
In the early 90s, there was kindof a lower rate in producing
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horror films or even peopleenjoying them and everything.
But 1996, Scream comes out andit sort of gave this rebirth to
this genre and it became iconic.
Also, fun fact the movie wasoriginally named Scary Movie,
which, if you don't know, thereis a popular movie franchise
called Scary Movie.
It came out in the early 2000soriginally.
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There's been a few installmentsof it.
But Scary Movie is a franchisethat sort of parodies and makes
fun of movies in the horrorgenre, slasher genre, and
mystery genre.
And I thought it was prettyinteresting because, you know,
Scream was almost named ScaryMovie, but they changed it to
Scream.
Then Scary Movie hits the scene.
And they, again, make fun of andparody a lot of popular horror
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movies, but the plot of thescary movie franchise, for the
most part, follows a similarplot line to I Know What You Did
Last Summer, and most notablyScream.
So I wonder if that's why theynamed the Scary Movie franchise
Scary Movie because they knewthat it Scream was almost named
Scary Movie.
I don't know, that might bewishful thinking, but it's
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pretty interesting.
Scream does take a satiricalapproach to the slasher film.
It references so many popularhorror films, the two most
reference being Nightmare on ElmStreet and Halloween.
However, there are lots of othericonic references, like little
one-liners, maybe somethingsimilar in a different shot.
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There are just tons of littlereferences you could go through
and pick them all out.
I have read a few articles thattalked about them.
I'm not going to talk about themall here, but it's pretty
interesting.
If you want to go see everyspecific reference, definitely
go check out the Scream Wiki.
It's pretty cool.
I think the satire is what makesthis film so incredible to me.
And specifically, I think thatsatire and sort of making fun of
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the horror movie tropes that wesee pretty much in every horror
movie.
I think it was really wellexecuted by the character of
Randy.
You know, more characters dopoint out the hypocrisy of the
spectacle of horror movies andstereotypes and things like
that.
I mean, Sydney herself says oneand then does the exact same
trope.
We'll talk about that later.
But Randy is the character thatis this huge horror movie buff.
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He knows everything and he likesto give the rules for how to
survive a horror movie, like allthese different things, and he
constantly has lines that pointyou to the plot of the movie and
what's happening.
It's pretty interesting.
He's very meta in his lines.
I don't think he understandsthat he is doing that in some
parts, but he serves as sort ofthis reality check throughout
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the whole movie.
And he does tell us what ishappening.
Like he tells us who the killeris at the very beginning of the
movie, but no one believes him.
One last thing before we getinto my notes.
Casting Drew Barrymore, who wasvery famous already at the time,
I feel like everybody knows DrewBarrymore now, especially, but
back then, like she was a hugechild star and she was really
big in the 90s.
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Everyone knew her.
They originally wanted her to beSydney, but she decided to take
the role of Casey, which I thinkis iconic because Casey is
killed.
Spoiler alert, in the first 15minutes of the film, I kind of
wish I could time travel to gosee that in the movie theater
when it happened, because I justknow that that shocked everyone.
It shocked me here watching it.
You know that a lot of peoplewent to go see that movie
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because Drew Barrymore is in it,you know?
It was a very good marketingtechnique of having this big
name actress in this horrorfilm, especially in a lull of
horror movies, and she's in thisslasher film.
Everyone thinks she's the maincharacter.
Because I mean, if you look atthe movie posters, she's very
prominent, especially for acharacter that is killed in the
first 12 minutes.
I believe the opening scene doeslast 12 minutes, so less than
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15.
It was actually her idea, asstated to be Casey and to be
killed first.
To Drew Barrymore, she wantedthis role because she said, you
know, having someone like her inthis film where they think that
she's gonna be the maincharacter, but she gets killed
off like immediately, that wouldshock everyone.
It'll keep up suspense, and itwould also force you to throw
out everything that you thoughtyou knew about slasher films.
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And that's exactly what thisdoes.
I mean, back then, and even now,sometimes, if you have a big
name in a horror movie, they'remost likely making it to the
end.
But having Drew Barrymore diewithin 12 minutes of the movie
starting, I just know thatrocked everyone's world.
And I think that it's iconic.
She's an icon.
What I want to do next issomething I really enjoy.
Let me know if you don't likeit.
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If you don't, I will stop doingthis.
I think it's cool.
I don't know a lot of peoplethat do this when they review
movies.
However, they might.
Don't quote me on that.
Okay, what whatever.
It's fine.
I'm not saying I came up withthis.
I didn't.
I think it's kind of fun for youto see what's going on in my
head while I'm watching a movie.
I've done this before, but whenI'm watching a movie that I know
I'm gonna review, I activelytake notes while I'm watching.
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I think it's really cool for meto read you my notes as I
watched it happen so that youcould see what my genuine live
reaction was during the movie.
No, you're not watching me watchit.
However, you kind of get alittle break into my head, into
what I was thinking, into whatmy actual experience was while
watching it.
I'm just want to read out allthese notes to you and maybe
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we'll stop during a couple ofthem, talk about them together.
But if you would rather me justcontinue doing the whole, like I
take notes and then I summarizethem, you don't actually get to
hear my raw, real-time notes,then let me know that too.
For now, for this episode, weare going to jump right into the
notes.
First note, Drew Barrymore, oh,we just talked about this.
Drew Barrymore being cast justto be killed at the beginning is
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goaded, iconic.
Quote, I'll gut you like a fish.
Okay, Grinch.
Oh, I remember writing this.
Ghostface says, I'll gut youlike a fish.
And if you don't know, How theGrinch Stole Christmas, the live
action movie, is one of myall-time favorite movies.
I did a review on this podcast,so go check it out.
I love Jim Carrey.
I love that movie.
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Obviously, How the Grinch StoleChristmas, the live action came
out after Scream.
I was simply just that's wheremy brain went.
But it's cool.
The Grinch references Scream.
The voice modulation is so good,it's iconic, you know?
Quote, his name wouldn't have tobe Steve, would it?
Chills, OMG.
That was crazy when Casey'stalking about her boyfriend.
I have a lot of notes for thisopening scene, and it's only 12
minutes.
Quote, I want to play a game.
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Okay, Saw reference.
I associate wanna play a game orplaying a game, that kind of
thing, with Saw, and I did lookit up.
Scream is actually first, itcame out before Saw.
So it's the first iteration ofthe whole playing a game type of
thing.
However, it becomes Saw's thinglater because Jigsaw is so into
puzzles and things like that.
But it started with Scream.
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Pretty cool.
All caps.
OMG Steve's guts, that issickening.
So psycho.
That was crazy.
I did not expect to see that.
That was really gory.
Again, the originator of theplay a game statement, not Saw.
Nice.
Asking questions about horrormovies is so cool.
Of them, you know, that's thegame that they're playing is
asking questions about horrormovies.
All caps.
Why would you go outside, youidiot?
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All caps.
Also, stop looking inside.
The next five are in all caps,okay?
OMG, OMG, OMG, iconic openingscene, OMG.
The shot of her on the ground,OMG.
OMG, OMG, OMG, the bloodyhandle, the mask.
Casey is dead.
OMG.
I was really intense whilewatching this.
I was on the edge of my seat.
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Killing her right outside whenher parents are home is insane.
That was crazy to me.
The killer is actively at theirhouse, and the parents are
investigating the whole jiffypop popcorn thing, which by the
way, really cool time element ofshowing how quickly all of this
progressed from just likeregular to chaotic.
That was pretty cool.
I loved having that.
All caps, OMG Casey hanging iscrazy.
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I love how it jumps from that tomy literal next note being Billy
and Sydney, aw, what?
Oh man.
Her shoving his hand, ha ha ha.
Quote, would you settle for a PG13 relationship?
LMAO.
This is mainly a lot of these.
I did put direct quotes in therebecause I thought they were so
fun.
All caps.
OMG, OMG, Courtney Cox, OMG,OMG.
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I'm a huge friends fan.
Tatum, OMG, hi.
I loved her outfits.
Her costumes were great.
Do we know Sydney?
Question mark.
I later looked it up.
Dewey is Tatum's older brother,but I was just so confused.
I was like, what?
All caps.
Matthew Lillard, oh my king! Ilove Matthew Lillard.
You know, I'm wearing aScooby-Doo shirt today.
I I love Matthew Lillard, okay?
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I just love him so much.
Quote (09:37):
That is so sexist.
The killer could be a woman.
That's from Tatum.
And then Stu starts talkingabout, no, it would have to be a
man, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
And then I'm pretty sure Sidneyasks, you know, how could you
even go to person?
And then Stu goes into this verydetailed of like how you could
do it.
So I wrote, Stu, what the hell?
And then I said, Randy iskilling me, LMAO.
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I love Randy.
But the next round I put, Billygiving Stu that look.
Question mark, question mark,OMG, it's kind of obvious.
Okay, spoiler alert, I went intowatching this movie knowing that
Billy and Stu were accomplicesfor this.
So I did know from thebeginning.
So I understand that my view ofthe movie was tainted in that
aspect.
So I did try to watch it fromthe point of view of I don't
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know anything.
I don't know who the killerwould be.
So some of my notes do reflectthat.
However, I do think that thatscene of him being like, stop,
like, he's basically telling himto stop talking with that look.
And it's pretty creepy.
It lets you, that's your firstsuspicion of what are you doing?
Who is that?
You know, who's the killer?
I think it might be Billy.
All caps.
Maureen Prescott was found,raped, and murdered, and that
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was Sydney's mom.
Is Randy the voice questionmark?
He loves horror movies.
Again, he's one of the obviouschoices because he does love
horror movies.
My next note, quote, I'm notRandy.
Okay.
Some of my notes just crack meup.
I can't.
All caps.
Sydney, why would you gooutside, you idiot?
And you left the door open.
OMG.
Quote, you hang up on me, you'lldie just like your mother.
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That was cold.
Chilling, actually.
I was shocked.
Some of the things they say,like, just insane.
Okay.
Then I put, wait, Billy knewshe'd be alone at the house when
Ghostface attacks her because hewas there the night before when
her dad said he was leaving andgoing out of town.
Duh.
Okay, so earlier in the nightwhen she's talking to Ghostface,
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Sydney, she says something abouthorror movies and says, like,
it's insulting, you know, likesome girl who can't act runs
upstairs instead of out thefront door during like a killing
sequence in a slasher film.
And then she is forced to run upthese stairs instead of out the
front door because she lockedthe front door, can't get out in
time.
Ghostface is chasing her.
So she runs upstairs.
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She does the exact thing thatshe said was stupid about horror
movies.
Hence the whole satire thingthat Scream's got going on.
It's so good.
I love when movies do that.
I put, then he drops the phone.
OMG OMG.
This is when Billy just sohappens to be there to rescue
Sydney.
All caps.
Dewey OMG.
Arresting Billy, OMG.
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I'm sorry, there's a lot of OMGsin here.
Dewey is Tatum's brother.
That's when I found it out.
Okay.
It took me a while.
Just all caps.
Gail! Then when Billy's beinginterviewed, I said, it looks
like there's blood on Billy'scollar.
All caps.
OMG Sydney punched Gail.
OMG.
All caps.
OMG calling Tatum's houseinstead for Sydney OMG.
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Then I put, but they called sothat Billy could get off and out
of jail because Sydney wouldtell the police, you know, that
Ghostface called her while shewas at Tatum's house, which
means Billy has an alibi.
Like that's pretty crazy.
It throws them off the scent.
I think they really did thinklike they were very smart in the
details for some of that.
Framing cotton for the murder ofher mom.
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Oh, I put, quote, couldn't havebeen me.
I was in jail.
Nice.
Way to go, Billy.
Like, okay, he's being a littledefensive.
All caps.
Billy, what?
Saying it's been a year, youshould get over it.
About her mom dying.
When you killed her, first ofall.
First of all, I put, what, what,what, what?
She lost her mom.
And then, whoa, Mr.
Hembry throwing those shearsaround.
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I love them making everyone seemlike they could be it.
That was crazy.
He was like, Well, how would youfeel if you had your guts pulled
on the outside or something?
And he like dragged these likeshears down this student
t-shirt.
Hello.
That was so creepy.
It so could have been him, butobviously it wasn't.
Then, like the two girls talkingin the bathroom, I put quote,
her mother was a tramp.
OMG.
Like, that's so insensitive, youknow?
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Also, Billing saying that hismom left and he got over it.
Yeah, by killing Sid's mom.
What do you mean?
Get over it.
Your mom died a year ago.
My mom left my dad and I'm overit now.
No, you're not actually, becauseyou killed her mom.
Not Gail and Dewey flirting.
Parentheses, didn't they getmarried in real life?
Yes, they did.
Courtney Cox and David Arquette,who play respectively, Gail and
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Dewey, met on the set of Screamand they dated for a while and
then they got married, butthey're divorced now.
But they did get married at onepoint.
Not the principal with the mask,OMG, OMG, and then all caps.
Mr.
Hembry killed.
Immediately.
Like, okay, so it's not him.
Wow.
I'm scared.
Randy quoted, prom nightrevisited, OMG, OMG.
He's onto them the whole time.
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Randy is on to Billy and Stu thewhole time.
Maybe not Stu entirely, but he'son to Billy.
And then I put, way to go,Randy, you know it.
Quote, the dad's a red herring.
Billy did it.
Randy?
This is what I mean.
Randy is literally telling theaudience, don't believe that the
dad is the killer becausethere's a lot of, you know, the
dad's missing.
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What happened?
And people were theorizing thather father killed the mom and
tried to kill Sydney.
And Randy straight up is like,the dad is a red herring.
Billy did it.
He's pointing us to thecharacter who is the murderer
the entire time.
The main one at least.
And then I put OMG phone callsfrom Sidney's dad.
And then I put not GailLittering, which I think it was
technically Kenny is his name, Ithink, the TV station cameraman.
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And then I put not Stu in theHefner robe.
He look, he looks so good.
Okay.
I love Matthew Lillard.
And then I put the music is sogood for the scares.
Jamie Lee Curtis mentionedScream Queen, which she is.
Love her.
I have to point out, we're atthe part of the movie where it's
the party scene at Stu's house,which is the longest scene in
the entire movie.
And I did look it up, and funfact, the crew made t-shirts
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that said I survived scene 118because the scene took, I think,
21 days to film just that oneparty scene.
I think it's a 45-minute longsequence, the whole like thing
at Stu's house.
It's just really cool.
I want one of those shirts, youknow?
Anyone have one and can send itto me, please let me know.
All cats, I said, Dewey lettingthe underage kids drink.
Like what?
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He's a deputy.
And he walks into this party andhe's like, you're not old enough
to drink that and takes the beerfrom this kid.
And then he's like, I'm justkidding, just don't drive.
What?
OMG Gail hiding a camera.
That's crazy.
The garage is so freaky.
And then OMG Ghostface.
Tatum.
OMG, OMG, OMG.
Can I be the helpless victim?
OMG, what?
You are the helpless victim.
That's what you are in thatscene.
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All caps.
OMG, OMG, the garage door.
No.
OMG, she got crushed.
No.
That was gruesome.
And then I put Stu, bro, what?
I don't know why I said that.
I don't remember what that sceneis for, but also Stu, bro, what?
All the time.
And then I said, Randy wants tobe with Sid.
Then, oh, then I put, man, Ijust love Stu.
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Okay, clearly, um, I havebittersweet feelings for Stu.
Quote.
It's all a movie.
That is Billy talking to Sydney.
And then he says, you can't pickyour genre.
It's so meta.
It's making fun of itself.
It's pointing to, like, yes,Scream is a movie, you know?
That is when Sydney decides togive up her virginity to Billy,
and they're having this wholehot and heavy session upstairs
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while everyone else in the partyis downstairs watching
Halloween.
And Randy is like narrating whatis happening, and he's saying
there are certain rules tosurvive a horror movie, blah
blah blah blah blah.
And then he says, quote, onlyvirgins can do that.
And he's talking about onlyvirgins can outsmart the killer
and survive and win the wholenight, and they can actually
live.
I did take a horror movie classin college, and that is so
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prevalent in most every horrormovie, especially from when this
came out from before, it'scrazy.
Him saying that as Sydney isdoing this upstairs with Billy,
she is losing the ability tooutsmart him in that instance,
whatever.
And then I wrote down the rulesthat Randy says so one, you can
never have sex, two, you cannever drink or do drugs, and
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three, never ever say, I'll beright back, because you won't.
But then, you know, Stu is like,I'll be right back, whatever,
when he leaves.
And I love Matthew Willard.
Okay, I just love him.
OMG, making Dewey seem creepyand like the killer too.
I thought we'd walk.
And he's like, What?
You're not scared, are you?
Everyone.
It it really does keep youguessing because just when you
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think you know something,something else happens.
Then I put, Do you want anotherbeer from Stu?
But then he says bye toeverybody.
Wasn't the beer in the garagewhere Tatum's body is?
And he doesn't say a word aboutit.
Because he knew, you know,obviously.
And I put, oh Randy, oh no, theyleft him alone.
Which, why would you guys leavehim alone?
Then I said, Everyone isleaving.
OMG Gail and Dewey, becausethat's when they were off alone,
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you know, whatever.
Neil Prescott's car.
He's there, they're worried thathe's still the killer, whatever.
And then after Sydney and Billyhave sex, she says, Your one
phone call.
So who'd you call?
Babe, wrap it up, figure it out.
And Billy's like, Well, I calledmy dad.
And then Sydney says, SheriffBurke called your dad.
And you know, then Billy's like,You still believe that it was
me?
You still believe it?
(18:28):
Whatever.
Billy, shut up.
We know it was you.
So then Billy's like, What do Ihave to do to prove to you that
I'm not the killer?
And then Ghostface comes in andstabs the crap out of him.
Hello.
I said, OMG, wait, what, Billy?
What?
What?
What?
And then wiping the knife clean,crazy, chilling.
When Ghostface like cleans offBilly's blood and then goes
(18:48):
after Sid, hello?
Iconic.
And then I just put, OMG, OMG,Sidney.
She fell on top of a boat.
OMG, and she found Tatum.
No.
Then quote, watch out, Jamie.
You know he's around.
There he is.
He's right around the corner.
Randy narrating Halloween whenGhostface is literally walking
up right behind him.
And then he's like, behind you,then turn around.
Randy.
(19:09):
You turn around.
Ghostface is right there.
Again, the satire, the parody,the making fun of itself.
It is so good.
And then I put, OMG, he killedthe news guy.
Ghostface.
He stabbed her.
Sydney, run.
Gail finding Kidney.
OMG.
But it is kind of funny.
Like, she's like, get off mycar.
And she like is whipping aroundto get him off.
But then, you know, driving awayand then OMG, Gail crashing.
(19:31):
Then I put, no, Dewey.
Dewey OMG has a knife in theback.
No, no, no.
OMG, do not touch Dewey.
Okay.
I was so upset.
Ghostface holding the keys iscrazy.
That is so taunting.
Locking her in that car.
And then she's trying to do thewhole 9-1-1 thing on the police
radio.
And then I said, not the trunkopening.
Here's where it gets good.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
(19:52):
Billy?
OMG.
Billy killed Randy.
OMG OMG.
And then Billy says, AnthonyPerkins, psycho.
Wah, wa, wa.
Hello?
The movie reference.
The fact that Billy consistentlyalso references all these movies
that are like Halloween, slash,or whatever, and they're kind of
like his inspiration for things.
Like he's doing scenes fromthose movies or saying lines
(20:13):
from those movies.
It's it's really chilling.
And then I said, All cats, Stuwith the voice modulator is
crazy.
OMG.
Quote, what's the matter,Sydney?
You look like you've seen aghost.
unknown (20:23):
Oh!
SPEAKER_00 (20:24):
Oh! Oh, it's so good.
And then surprise, Sydney.
Oh! Oh!
unknown (20:30):
Oh!
SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
It is so good! Y'all, there's an edit on
TikTok.
It's got like millions of likes,but it is an edit of Stu and
Billy.
I don't know the song that it'soverlaid, but those are the two
quotes in it.
And yo, it is so good.
You need to go look it up.
And then, you know, Sidney says,F you to Billy.
And then he says, We alreadyplayed that game.
Remember?
See, you lost.
(20:53):
Oh man, dude.
Cold.
And then I put it in all caps,they framed Cotton Weary.
We knew that.
Okay, we knew.
She's like, What's your motive?
You know, he has a quote and hesays, It's a lot scarier when
there's no motive, Sid.
And then I said, Wait, Studidn't know about the real
motive.
His face is shocked.
When Billy starts talking about,you know, your mom was having an
affair with my dad, which is whymy mom abandoned me, blah, blah,
(21:14):
blah, blah, blah.
All this stuff.
And then he says something like,abandonment can cause issues.
That's why you had sex with apsychopath.
First of all, crazy.
Second of all, they cut to ashot of Stu where he's kind of
like questioning.
He is Stu has something wrongwith him as well.
He is for sure like not doingokay.
But he does make a face like hedid not know that Sydney's mom
was the cause for Billy's familyproblems.
(21:36):
He makes that face.
So it's kind of interesting tome.
I don't know.
And then, you know, Billy's gotthe knife to Sydney's throat and
he says, It's after midnight,your mom's anniversary.
What?
That's crazy.
OMG, her dad.
Then I put in quotes perfectending.
And then what the heck?
Billy stabs Stu.
That's crazy.
They're both stabbing each otherto make it more believable.
They're both stabbing each otherso that they can get away with
it.
(21:56):
But I also think they have somesort of like sick and twisted,
like they enjoy it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Then when it's Stu's turn tostab Billy, Billy's like, stay
to the side, don't go too deep.
So he clearly knows where tostab someone to make them die
versus not die.
And then I said, run, Sydney,run.
Hello?
They're doing this whole likemonologue.
You should take your chance andleave, dude.
(22:16):
What?
And then Stu says, we get tocarry on and plan the sequel.
Okay, Scream 2.
Like, that's so funny to me.
That's just so satire.
And then Billy said, movies makepsychos creative.
Because I think Sydney sayssomething about you've watched
all these movies and they makeyou a psycho.
And he was like, no, horrormovies or slasher movies,
whatever, make psychos creative.
Like psychos are alreadypsychos, which is that was
that's too deep for me to getinto right now.
(22:37):
And then I said, Billy stabbedthe crap out of Stu, which is
crazy.
Like, do we think that Billy didthat in a fit of rage, or do we
think that Billy knew he wouldbe killing Stu?
Because he does tell Stu, stayto the side, don't go too deep.
But then he stabs Stu enough tomake Stu start crying.
He's like, I'm feeling woozy,like all this stuff, whatever.
And then I said, yo, way to go,Gil.
Yes, yes.
(22:58):
And then again, quotes, you cutme too deep from Stu.
This next quote from Stu my momand dad are gonna be so mad at
me.
Stu, what?
That is what you're thinkingabout right now.
A, you're about to die.
B, you just murdered so many ofyour classmates, and are in the
midst of one as well.
What?
And then I put OMG ghost face,stabbed Billy with an umbrella,
(23:19):
and Halloween was playing withthe closet scene.
Again, parallels.
It was Sid as ghost face,obviously.
Then Stu and Sid fight.
Quote, I always had a thing foryou, Sid, from Stu.
And then she says, like, in yourdreams or something, which
apparently both of those lineswere ad-libbed.
Fun fact.
I just found that out earliertoday.
And then Randy's somehow alive.
Like they're like, You're notdead.
And he said, I thought I shouldbe.
(23:40):
I never thought I'd be so happyto be a virgin.
Once again, proving his rulesare correct.
That is so funny to me that likehe genuinely there's not a way
on earth that he should still bealive.
Like from that.
I don't know.
Yes, Gail, I knew she was stillalive.
I knew she was faking it.
Because Billy doesn't take thefinal shot and make sure she's
dead because they get distractedand they go off.
I knew Gail was gonna come back.
(24:01):
Quote from Randy Careful, thisis the moment when the
supposedly dead killer comesback to life and then Billy sits
up, but Sydney just shoots himimmediately.
Okay, Queen.
She's like, not in my movie.
Okay.
Yeah, girl, not in your movie.
This is your movie.
And then, yay, Dewey's alive.
It's really good.
Happy ending, kind of, whatever.
Absolutely incredible movie.
My rating, I'm gonna give thismovie a four and a half out of
(24:23):
five.
I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyedit.
I can definitely see why it'snow considered a classic in this
genre.
It's funny, satire, it's gory,it's mysterious, and it honestly
does keep you on your toes theentire time.
I love all the references.
I love how unhinged it got.
It really is iconic.
Pickle's pick for this week isAs If We Never Said Goodbye from
(24:44):
Sunset Boulevard.
Y'all, Nicole does an incrediblejob performing this song.
I've had this song on repeat.
I love it.
I love singing it.
Thank you, Andrew Lloyd Weber,for this masterpiece.
And thank you so much for tuningin however you decided to do so.
Please, please, please, please,please don't forget to like,
(25:06):
comment, follow all the socials,and definitely share this
podcast with every single personthat you know.
Check out the website as well.
It's www.makinseypickle.com.
Let me know what you thought ofthis episode.
If you liked me reading all mynotes from when I was watching
the movie, let me know what youthink about Scream.
What's your favorite horrormovie?
Do you like horror movies?
What's your favorite Halloweentradition?
(25:27):
Let's talk in the comments.
Remember, you are loved and youare important.
And now it's time to close thejar.
See you next time.
Bye.
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