Scream 1

Scream takes place in a small town called Woodsboro. The movie starts out with a young blonde who is home alone and answers the phone to a obviously male voice who says he doesn't know who he is trying to reach so she hangs up.  The man calls back again and again taunting her and getting more menacing the more she keeps hanging up on him.  He lets it slip that he can see her and tells her to look out the back and he has her bloodied boyfriend Steve tied to a chair.  

He eventually tells her if she hangs up again he will kill her and that he wants to play a game of horror trivia and if she gets the questions right he will let her and her boyfriend Steve live if she gets it wrong they die.  She gets the first one wrong and he cuts Steve from groin to sternum letting his guts spill out so Casey can see. The last question that the killer asks is if she knows what door hes at and then he attacks throwing a patio chair through the glass doors. Eventually he catches her and stabs her in the chest then hangs her from a tree in their yard and guts her where her parents can find her. 

The same night as the murders is where you meet Sidney Prescott at her house in her bedroom, You also meet her father Niel and her boyfriend Billy Loomis.  Billy sneaks into Sidney's room through the window and scares her and she screams.  Her dad comes to her room asking if she was alright and tells her hes going to bed because he has his flight in the morning. You learn he will be out of town for the weekend. In this scene you also learn that it is almost the one year anniversary of Sidney's mother's brutal rape and murder. The next day at school is when Sidney and her friends Tatum, Randy, Stu, and Billy all find out about the horrible deaths of their classmates and the police are at the school interviewing the student body. Sidney, Billy, Tatum, Stu and Randy are all sitting around the fountain at school eating lunch when the guys start joking about the murder and Stu makes a comment that there is no way a woman could be the killer.  Randy is a big horror movie fan and says that maybe Stu is the killer.

Later that night Sidney is packing a bag to go stay at Tatum's house since her dad is out of town. She falls asleep on the couch waiting for Tatum to pick her up and is woken up by the phone. First it is Tatum telling her she is on her way that practice ran late.  Then the phone rings again and it is the same voice that was haunting Casey over the phone. He starts taunting Sidney but she thinks it is her friend Randy playing a joke on her. He begins to ask her if she likes scary movies like he asked Casey.

The killer tells her it isn't Randy and Sidney realizes that it is probably Casey and Steve's killer.  He brings up her mother and tells her he is on her porch.  She says hes lying and goes outside.  The killer sneaks past her to hide in the closet and Sidney closes and locks the door as the killer comes out and tries to attack her.  Sidney gets away and gets to her room and contacts the police.  Billy comes in through her window saying he heard screams and the door was locked.  As she hugs him a cell phone falls out of his pocket to the floor and Sidney flips out thinking it may have been Billy.  She runs down stairs and when she opens the front door and deputy Dewey is standing there.  Dewey is also Tatum's older brother. 

Tatum and Dewey try to take Sidney back to their house but are stopped outside the police department by the same news reporter that covered her mother's murder last year and decided to write a book about it.  Sidney is very sore with her and ends up punching her in the face.  Later at Tatum's house Sidney gets a phone call and starts to cry as soon as she hears it is the killer telling her she fingered the wrong guy again. You later find out that Billy was released from jail that night so Sidney still has it in her head that Billy could be the killer.  The next morning at school everyone is picking on Sidney thinking she made the entire thing up.  She is in the bathroom alone and gets attacked again by the killer.  Since she was attacked on school grounds the principal decided to suspend school until the killer is caught.  Later when the school is empty the killer attacks and kills the principal but the students don't find out until later that night at Stu's house.

Dewey takes the girls to the store to get some food to take to Stu's house for a party he is having.  While the girls are shopping Dewey is talking to his superior and he tells Dewey the dad is now the main suspect because the calls were registered as coming from his cell phone.  Dewey drops the girls off at Stu's and asks the reporter Gail to go for a walk and they end up stumbling upon Niel's car abandoned in some trees at Stu's house. While this is going on everyone is watching a scary movie in the living room and Stu asks Tatum to go get more beers out of the garage and when shes out there the killer traps her in the garage and when she tries to escape through the pet door on the garage he opens the door and she gets crushed.

Mean while the students find out the principal was killed and they get excited and all of them leave.  As they are leaving Billy shows up to talk to Sidney.  They go up to Stu's parents room and Sidney caves to the pressure she was putting on herself and the peer pressure and has sex with Billy.  When they are getting dressed Sidney asks who he called with his one phone call and he says his dad but she knows the sheriff called his dad and he says he didn't get an answer when he called.  He gets bad and asks what he has to do to get her to believe he wasn't the killer.  Right then the killer comes through the door and stabs Billy and tries to get to Sidney.  She runs and ends up crawling out of a window upstairs and falls on top of a boat in the drive way and that is when she sees Tatum hanging from the garage door. When the killer comes down stairs he was going to kill Randy until he heard Sidney outside yelling for help.  She runs to the news van where the camera man is watching the camera that Gail hid in the house but he forgot there was a delay so when they were seeing that he was about to kill Randy the camera guy tries to get out of the van and sees the house door open and the killer slits his throat. Sidney shuts the door before he can get to her and crawls out the back as hes trying to get the door open.

The killer goes back in the house looking for Sidney and when she comes up to the house Dewey comes out with a knife in the back and collapses on the front porch.  The killer steps out and chases Sidney to Dewey's jeep when she realizes the killer has the keys and can unlock the doors to get to her. She gets away again and runs to the house and grabs Dewey's gun.  Randy comes running up behind her then Stu and her and Randy run inside and close the door and Billy comes down stairs and takes the gun from her. Randy is freaking out and Billy tells him that we all go a little mad sometimes and shoots him.  Then Billy licks the blood off his hands and says its corn syrup. Sidney runs to Stu who pulls out a white box that he talked to and it was the voice of the killer. They take her to the kitchen and start explaining. Billy wants to kill her because he killed her mother and framed the guy in jail because her mom cheated with his dad so his mother left and he blames Sidney as well as her mother. 

They abducted Sidney's dad and cloned his phone so that it looked like the calls were coming from him. They were going to stab each other, kill Sidney, and shoot her father in the head so it looked like he tried to kill them and they lived and killed his daughter then himself. Billy stabs Stu first then a few little times and then Stu stabs billy. Stu left the gun on the kitchen counter though and Gail came in and got it without them noticing while they were stabbing each other and tried to shoot Billy but the safety was on. Billy knocks her out and leaves her outside on top of Dewey's body. While Stu was watching Billy hit Gail Sidney took her father and they hid. When Stu notices shes gone and tells Billy he gets mad and starts looking for them when the phone rings.  Its Sidney with the voice changer saying she just called the police.  Stu is bleeding out and Billy starts looking for Sidney when he hears a noise in the closet and when he opens the door she jumps out stabbing him twice with an umbrella wearing the ghost face mask. She takes the mask off Stu comes running at her and tries to kill her so she pushes a big tube tv on him killing him. She goes and picks the mask up and gets down on the floor and Randy sets up and scares her and she says she thought he was dead.  He says he never thought he would be so happy to be a virgin and Billy attacks her again. Just before he can stab her Gail shoots him in the chest. He is laying on the floor and Randy says be careful this is where the killer always comes back for one last scare and Billy sets up and Sidney shoots him in the head.

Scream 1 actually had 2 killers Billy and Stu.  Billy is who I believe is the mastermind of all of this because he is the one that has issues with his mother.  His mom left after Sidney's mother slept with his father making her want to leave so him and Stu killed her and framed Cotton and claimed it was really easy. This movie doesn't exactly have a terrible place that the killer takes them to.  If I had to pick if this had to have a terrible place I would say it is the house because he tries to keep them boxed in the house.  Their weapon of choice with the exception of the garage door was always a knife making the kills more primitive. The victims they chose are mostly people who betrayed them and mostly women. Casey broke up with Stu to date Steve so he killed Steve out of spite, and Casey for leaving him.  Sidney was targeted because of her mother. Tatum was dating Stu at the time of the murders. Of course the final girl is Sidney who beat the odds and killed both killers. She fits Clover's explanation of the last girl that shes usually the one that is more down to Earth, smart, cunning, and cleaver taking the responsibility of killing the killers in her own hands because it was kill or be killed.