Scream (1996) — Does It Hold Up? | feat. John Detoy

Scream 7 is dropping, so we went back to where it all started. Kyle, Seth, and friend of the podcast John Detoy — fresh off the Nateland at sea cruise — sit down to break apart the 1996 original that didn't just survive the 90s, it rewired the entire slasher genre.

We dig into why killing Drew Barrymore in the first five minutes was one of the boldest creative swings in horror history (and how Wes Craven told her animal cruelty stories between takes to get real tears out of her). We talk about Kevin Williamson writing this script in 72 hours in Palm Springs while broke, pitching Teaching Ms. Tingle to nobody, with the Halloween soundtrack playing in the background — and somehow delivering one of the sharpest debuts in genre history. We get into why Wes Craven was the ...