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Scream

1996 · directed by Wes Craven · 112 min
25,912 feet · Prominence
259th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw67

Lifetime worldwide gross $173m, re-releases included; about $364m in 2026 money.

Rank919 of 11,051In 199613 of 191

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise72

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics72 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy78

Judged directly: Ghostface mask, meta-horror template, endlessly referenced.

Verdict78 of 100IMDb7.4 from 439kWikipedia107k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 171 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 67 praise 72 legacy 78averages 72, placing it at25,912 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Neve Campbell19,221 ftDrew Barrymore19,180 ftMatthew Lillard18,807 ftCourteney Cox18,725 ftSkeet Ulrich18,547 ftDavid Arquette18,360 ftRose McGowan18,281 ftLiev Schreiber17,662 ftLinda Blair17,656 ftHenry Winkler17,646 ftFrances Lee McCain17,633 ft