As a Scream Fan, Here's How I'd Rank All 7 Movies

Horror was in a bad place in the early 90s. The 80s slasher boom, led by Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th franchise, was over, and the genre struggled through the first half of the decade. It was saved by an icon when Wes Craven, the mastermind behind A Nightmare on Elm Street, released perhaps his greatest movie, 1996's Scream. I was 16 when it came out and was in awe of what I saw on the screen. Millions of others must have been too, because the success of Scream led to a franchise.