From the origin of Ghostface to Drew Barrymore's tears, here's everything you didn't know about the classic Miramax/Kobal/Shutterstock In addition to being a stone-cold slasher classic, we have 1996’s to thank for many things. It codified the rules for horror movies for future generations, revitalized the career of late legendary filmmaker , launched 1,000 film school lectures on meta-textualism, coined an annoying new voice for people to imitate (“What’s your favorite scary movie!?”), and generally did for phones what did for showers. It’s also the movie that launched into the cinematic stratosphere as Sidney Prescott, who goes hand-to-hand with the masked ‘n’ murderous Ghostface.
In addition to haunting our dreams in perpetuity, the ghoulish white mask will be a staple of Halloween costumes forevermore — yet another thing we owe this wildly innovative and stylish entry into the scary movie canon. For more behind-the-scenes stories and little-known details about , check out the recent episode of the iHeartRadio podcast , hosted by former PEOPLE editors Jordan Runtagh and Alex Heigl. The story of begins with a man named .
After graduating from college in North Carolina in the late ‘80s, he moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He got a small part on the soap opera in 1990 before moving to Los Angeles in 1991 and picking up small roles in projects like , music videos, and films like 1994's and 1993's He then began taking screenwriting classes at UCLA,.
