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Scream

  • 1981
  • R
  • 1h 22m
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2.8/10
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Scream (1981)
A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
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A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious... Read allA group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.

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    • Byron Quisenberry
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    • Byron Quisenberry
  • Stars
    • Pepper Martin
    • Hank Worden
    • Ethan Wayne
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    • Director
      • Byron Quisenberry
    • Writer
      • Byron Quisenberry
    • Stars
      • Pepper Martin
      • Hank Worden
      • Ethan Wayne
    • 37User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
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    Sunshine7

    A group of rafters are trapped in a ghost town of death.

    A low budget movie. Though this movie was released in 1982, it is definitely a very 1970's type movie.

    'Scream', is supposed to be a thriller, but I didn't find it very thrilling. It lacked, in that the suspense lead-ups to the "scary parts" were exaggerated to a point where I lost interest, and the gory parts were very quick with minimal viewing. In my own personal opinion, if the viewers were given more clearly graphic scenes to wet their appetites, it might not have been such a bad or boring movie. Sorry, but I rate this movie from 1-10 as 1. "Awful".
    1thevirginiareel-643-149084

    Waste of Time and Money

    I have to agree with the other reviews. And I LIKE bad horror. I especially get a kick out of bad 70's and 80's horror. I will take The Mutilator, Slaughterhouse Rock, or Don't Go In the House any day! Ever seen Inn of the Damned? Yeah, it's a piece of dung, but nowhere near as bad as this. This movie has no plot, little dialogue, awful pacing, just boring as hell. The whole movie is like a power-outage, all dark and lanterns, and NOT scary. I don't need things spoon-fed to me, but the movie does not explain anything! Where did any of the characters come from? Where is this set? Why is everyone a useless wuss... oh wait, I guess that applies to most horror. But seriously, I was eagerly awaiting all these folks to die just so it would be over. One of the most infuriatingly inane movies I have ever seen. Don't do it.
    3insomniac_rod

    Should get lost in the ghost town...

    First of all, this movie should only be seen by die hard slasher fans. And I mean, those who can stand almost 90 minutes of mediocrity, terrible cinematography, boring plot, and stupid characters. Yes, there is a "mysterious" killer but that isn't enough.

    The plot deals with a bunch of teen rafters that get lost in a Ghost Town. You don't need to know more because before we can understand what's going on; the characters start to get killed one by one in off-screen scenes! So don't expect a serious slasher flick.

    The locations weren't that bad, and actually, looked creepy at some points but the horrible cinematography ruins it all.

    I found a VHS copy of this crap some time ago and I can only say that it serves for historic purposes only. Otherwise, I don't see the point of watching it.
    4HumanoidOfFlesh

    Lifeless slasher.

    A group of rafters is terrorized by a mysterious killer in a small Western ghost town.As soon as they arrive and night falls the murders begin.Then a horseback-riding ghostly stranger comes into town lead by a black dog.Painfully slow,almost lethargic slasher flick with solid cast and passable photography.The music is quite atmospheric during the night scenes,but there are so many flaws in "Scream" that's it's hard to enjoy it:paper-thin characters that resemble zombies in coma,agonizingly slow pacing,amateurish editing,incompetent direction and bloodless death scenes.Should I go on?No logic.No suspense.No tension.Just boredom and the lack of explanation in the ending.Who was the killer?We will never know.4 out of 10.A bit better than "Savage Water",but not much.
    2lthseldy1

    This has got to be the worst horror movie I have ever seen!!

    This movie was AWFUL! The summary on the back of the cover was much more entertaining reading than watching the movie itself. This movie is about a bunch of rafters that end up stranded in an old "ghost town" that looks to me like more of a set of a cheap western than a haunted ghost town. One by one the lame characters are killed off by an unseen killer. The only characters other than the helpless rafters are two bikers and an old man riding on his horse with his dog that claims to have been a sailer from the year 1890 something. This movie is just plain awful and I do not recommend that anyone should rent this movie. It has lame killings, low gore and stupid pathetic acting and on top of all that a horrible ending!

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    • Trivia
      The film was shot in 12 days.
    • Quotes

      Charlie Winters: I was a sailor you know, for 40 years. Sailed the Horn 35 times. Many times. Night like this... we'd run before the wind. Me behind that big iron wheel. And the captain... standing her face in that watery hell. That old man feared nothing. Me and the captain... we came here when they gave him never another ship. They were cruel men... them that run the ships. Company men.

      [pulls out a pocket compass]

      Charlie Winters: The captain gave me this the first time I sailed the Horn.

    • Connections
      Featured in Maria's B-Movie Mayhem: Scream/The Barn of the Naked Dead (2011)

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    • Release date
      • January 1, 1981 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker
    • Filming locations
      • Lake Piru, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Calendar International Pictures
      • Cougar Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,083,395
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 22m(82 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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