

“It was amazing for me because when I watched the film, I was actually scared,” Barrymore told ET in 1996 while promoting the film. That’s who I want to be,’” Williamson says. “But that was all of five minutes because the very next day, Drew Barrymore said, ‘The thing I love about this movie is the opening scene. There were even talks of getting Alicia Silverstone, who was fresh off the success of Clueless. My mother is like, ‘To this day I can’t watch that,’” she says), Liev Schreiber, Kristen Bell, Anna Paquin and Lucy Hale all taking turns to die in the franchise openers. “I wanted the biggest star of the film to be in that opening scene,” Williamson says of the sequence that would become a staple of the Scream franchise, with Jada Pinkett-Smith (“It’s pretty iconic. The characters - Sidney Prescott ( Neve Campbell), Dewey Riley ( David Arquette) and Gale Weathers ( Courteney Cox) - knew about other slasher flicks, spent much of their time referencing other slasher flicks and ironically recognized that they were living inside of a slasher flick. With the combined efforts of director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson, they created a relatively simple slasher flick with one unique element: The movie was self-aware.

While many of the horror films that followed were box office successes, none matched the originality of Scream. 'The Fonz,' a leather-clad greaser and auto mechanic, started out as a minor character at the shows beginning but had achieved top billing by the time the show ended. Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days.

Following the success of Scream, a new generation of horror fans was treated to the birth of new franchises I Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legend, as well as the revitalization of long-gone icons, such as Chucky, Freddy and Jason. Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer, and author. It was unheard of at the time for horror movies, and, as a result, it fully revitalized the genre. Praised by theatergoers and critics alike, Scream grossed over $100 million at the domestic box office on a production budget of just $14 million.
