Revisiting Scream  (1996) | Forgotten Cinema Lead Up We’re kicking off a brand-new Lead Up series on Forgotten Cinema , and this time we’re heading back to Woodsboro. With Scream 7  on the horizon, we're revisiting each film in the Scream  saga, starting where it all began: Wes Craven’s iconic 1996 slasher, Scream . For Field, this one is about as close to perfect as horror gets. He loves Scream  and the franchise as a whole, and there’s very little, if anything, he’d change