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Warning: the following story contains graphic details concerning a real-life murder case.
"Scream" is easily one of the best - if not the best - slasher movies of all time. Wes Craven's 1996 horror flick cuts the perfect balance between gory scares and black comedy, and the franchise solidified a young Neve Campbell's status as the reigning scream queen of the '90s. The film has spawned five sequels so far, and "Scream 6" - which hit theaters on March 10, 2023 - features a fresh cast of young victims tasked with fending off Ghostface. While the masked murderers who terrorize the unlucky characters in the Scream franchise are fictional, there's another, even more disturbing layer to the story that has roots in reality: "Scream" was inspired by a rash of real-life murders committed by a serial killer in Gainesville, Fl.
Danny Rolling wasn't from the tight-knit Florida college town,...
Warning: the following story contains graphic details concerning a real-life murder case.
"Scream" is easily one of the best - if not the best - slasher movies of all time. Wes Craven's 1996 horror flick cuts the perfect balance between gory scares and black comedy, and the franchise solidified a young Neve Campbell's status as the reigning scream queen of the '90s. The film has spawned five sequels so far, and "Scream 6" - which hit theaters on March 10, 2023 - features a fresh cast of young victims tasked with fending off Ghostface. While the masked murderers who terrorize the unlucky characters in the Scream franchise are fictional, there's another, even more disturbing layer to the story that has roots in reality: "Scream" was inspired by a rash of real-life murders committed by a serial killer in Gainesville, Fl.
Danny Rolling wasn't from the tight-knit Florida college town,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
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