The Classic Hold Up

In this episode of The Classic Hold Up, host Elle Hebbelinck and guest Jena Samson talk about Scream 1996 and discuss whether this holds up as classic in the film world.

What is The Classic Hold Up?

A nostalgic look at classic music, video games, TV and films asking the question: "Does it hold up?"

Each episode features a different host that brings a fresh take on a film, TV show, video game, or music album of their choice. What can we discover? Do old favorites have a shelf life? Will the classics hold up? “The Classic Hold Up” is an AudioVideoLand production by Digital Storytelling students of Michigan State University in collaboration with Impact 89FM. 

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the classic hold up, where we analyze media from the past. Each episode features a different host that brings a fresh take on a film, TV show, video game, or music album of their choice. Do old favorites have a shelf life? Will the classics hold up?

Speaker 2:

Welcome to this episode of the classic hold up. I'm your host, Elle Hevelink. A little bit about me is I'm from a small town in New Jersey called Dover. So travel very long ways to get to Michigan for school. I'm a senior at Michigan State University.

Speaker 2:

My major is in digital storytelling, and I have a minor in media photography. My plans after college are to be a team sports photographer. Doesn't matter the kind of sport, whether it's hockey, baseball, football would be the best, but I would just love to work with absolutely any team. And I'm open to living absolutely anywhere too, wherever my life takes me. I also really wanna be able to immerse myself into the sports world.

Speaker 2:

I grew up playing sports and watching sports, so I would love to be able to continue my life in that. And the funny thing is with being a film student, I'm surprisingly not a huge film junkie. I really don't ever really watch films, but when I have my favorites, I will always defend them. Some of my favorites are on my wall as movie posters, and some of them are La La Land, the original Twister, 10 Things I Hate About You, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and the movie we're gonna be talking about today. In this episode, we will be talking about the 1996 horror film Scream.

Speaker 2:

The story begins a year after the death of her mother. The main character, Sydney Prescott, and her friends from her town, Woodsboro, start receiving strange phone calls. They start off sweet, but then switch to consistent questions involving scary movies, like trivia. This includes Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the thirteenth. Later, they find out these calls are coming from a serial killer in a white faced mask and black robes seeking revenge, specifically on Sidney Prescott.

Speaker 2:

One by one, the killer starts murdering people in their small town until they get the opportunity to try and kill Sidney at a house party. Sidney is the anchor of this story. She has so much grief from her mother's death, and she's not the typical final girl in scary movies. She can always hold her own and fight back. Gale Weathers is the reporter in the movie who wrote a book about her mother's death and how they put the wrong guy in jail.

Speaker 2:

She's sharp minded, and she will always find a way to defend herself. Gale and Sydney have a rough start in the beginning of the movie when Sydney slaps Gale, but they end up being each other's biggest support and strongest ally. Dewey Riley is the cop in the film whose sister is Sydney's best friend. He always wants to protect who he loves to the fullest extent. He becomes the innocent and positive light in their little trio and the main cop on the case.

Speaker 2:

The other characters in this film are Billy, Sydney's boyfriend Tatum, Sydney's best friend Stu, Tatum's boyfriend and Billy's best friend and Randy, who, in my opinion, is kind of like the audience if they were a character in this film, knowing the rules of a horror film and giving some humor. The 1996 movie was inspired by the real life Gainesville Ripper murders committed by Danny Rolling in 1990. The opening scene to Scream where the character was stalked and questioned on the phone before being killed was inspired directly from a news report about the Gainesville Ripper. The Scream movie became so popular that it franchised over the last thirty years into a seven movie series with the seventh movie coming out 02/27/2026. This movie has always been one of my favorites to the point where I have a poster of the original movie hung in my bedroom.

Speaker 2:

I watched this movie for the first time in high school, and my mom and brother are big no nos when it comes to scary movies, but my dad loves them. He's the one that introduced me to horror, thriller, and everything under that sun. I remember sitting on the couch being so freaked out by the movie, but I couldn't stop watching it. And I have watched it on repeat for almost the last ten years. Even though I watched it so long ago, it still makes me feel the exact same way when I watch it every year around my favorite time, which is Halloween.

Speaker 2:

This is the kind of movie that always makes you feel tense and never knowing what's going to happen next. I really thought this would be a movie where you could guess exactly what's going to happen and who the killer is, but it truly was the exact opposite. I was genuinely so shocked to find out who it was, and I've loved watching all the other movies in the franchise as well. But something about the original has always been my favorite. Through seven movies, they've always still been able to capture the same exact feeling, and I've never been able to guess who the killer is each time, whether it's one killer or whether it's four killers.

Speaker 2:

And welcome back to the classic hold up. I have with me in the studio Jenna Sampson. Hello.

Speaker 3:

Hey. What's up?

Speaker 2:

How are you?

Speaker 3:

I'm doing good. Are you so excited to

Speaker 2:

talk about our favorite movie of all time?

Speaker 4:

I'm so excited.

Speaker 2:

Alright. Well, tell me a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. I'm a senior at MSU, creative advertising, so kamar sai baedi. Minor media photography. So, yeah. And I work at Impact, so I'm back home in my in my little heart of hearts

Speaker 2:

with this Awesome. Alright. Well, we have to talk about Scream. Say less. I'm very excited about it.

Speaker 2:

So what's your personal kind of feeling with Scream? Like, of course, you love the movie. So tell me a little bit about when you first watched it, what your thoughts are on the movie.

Speaker 3:

I think I first watched it when I was, like, in high school or, like, early high school or, like, later middle school. Okay. But I I just remember, like, I loved it. I know my mom watched it way back when during her time, and she loved it too. Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

And then I was like, oh my god, mom. Like, I'm obsessed with this movie. And so after that, we just started watching all the like, took we a whole weekend and we started watching all the sequels and stuff for it as well.

Speaker 1:

And I

Speaker 2:

think

Speaker 3:

it was just so awesome. Like, there's something so interesting about Scream and its franchise that keeps bringing you back.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Is there specific reason why it's your favorite? Like, there's a bunch of horror movies out there, and I know you've seen a bunch. Why is this one particularly stand out to you?

Speaker 3:

I think the acting is so so good. I think the storyline is so amazing. It keeps you guessing and you really can never know who is who it's gonna be. And I think the twist in the movie always are so insane. Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

So I just enjoy that so much. I'm also a friend Stan, so Courtney Cox is like my homegirl. Mhmm. So I just love the movies.

Speaker 2:

Awesome. So Scream, our first when it first came out, it was a huge hit, which we figured. It was the night it was the late nineties, and it came out a couple years after. It was inspired by a huge amount of killings down in Gainesville, Florida. And after its big massive hit in the horror genre, it became the highest grossing slasher film at the time and remained in theater for theaters for over a year, and it started a huge widespread conversation about becoming a franchise.

Speaker 2:

Now that it is a franchise, we have to talk about that too, which we'll get into in a little But how do you feel the content was viewed when it first came out? What are your thoughts involving that?

Speaker 3:

I think it was viewed as, like, a like, an amazing movie because, like, you have, like, a certain star, like Drew Barrymore, all over the ads and all over the press, and then she gets killed in the first five minutes.

Speaker 2:

Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

And I think that one of the reasons is why people just, like, love the movie because they're like, what do you mean?

Speaker 2:

Like Yeah.

Speaker 3:

She's all over the ads, yet she's killed Yeah. Instantly. So it's like, it's definitely pretty interesting to see. Obviously, like, people do still love it. It there's still a huge fandom for it because they keep bringing it back and having another movie being made.

Speaker 3:

And I think there's just like, there's so much discourse about the movies and the and the sequels as well. Yeah. But I think the when it was viewed at the time, it was just like, it was it wasn't like as, like, popular for a slasher movie. Like, there's there's Halloween and there's Friday the thirteenth and there's Nightmare on Elm Street, but those are pretty older, I feel like, in comparison to Scream. It's it was definitely more new age and more in the times at the time.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Do you think the Scream movies when it was first released in the same, like, time, like, era that it was? I mean, it was the nineties, obviously, when it first came out, and that was how it was set in the film. Do you think it kinda equals out really well to how accurate it felt production in this kind of movie.

Speaker 3:

I do feel like it was, like, accurately represented because back then, like, phones weren't a big thing. So, like, it's not trending on, like, Twitter or something. Like, you can just, like, they're not having someone constantly being watched. Like, people aren't going around. There's not, like, podcasters out there trying to figure out who who killed who

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

And stuff like that. I think that's what really makes it so interesting is that it's in a world where no longer exists and it, like, it just shows how things were definitely more difficult back then Mhmm. But also more reserved. And that's where the intensity comes from.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I agree. I I would a 100% agree with that. I think for how it was filmed and how they kinda made the characters exactly, like, how they pictured them in the time frame of the nineties, I think it, like, equals out really well. Because my mom is not a horror person.

Speaker 2:

Mhmm. She hates scary movies and so does my brother, but she loves Scream because it feels such like a classic. Yeah. And it really represents the nineties very well with the landlines and the popcorn on the the stove. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And all those movies that came out when it first dropped in theaters. Now, looking at how the content is today, it's still viewed extremely positively. It's still considered a timeless horror classic. It's still relevant. I mean, we still have, unfortunately, serial killers trying to make their own things now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. And there's a bunch of movies that have come out that kinda put in the same thing with a serial killer or a slasher and not knowing who they are. And, of course, the series is now going to be seven movies with the seventh movie dropping in 2026. It still is just such a great classic movie. I watch it every Halloween.

Speaker 2:

So what do you feel the difference in the discourse between how it was viewed when it first came out to now? Like, what do you feel about that?

Speaker 3:

I think it's it could be, like, viewed the same. I think I think it's definitely it stands for itself. It's in its own category almost. It's such a insane classic that, like, you can't really compare it to these movies now. I think Scream is just, like, something that is just, like, so interesting in its own sense, the way the it all came together.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. And I just I personally really enjoy it. I can't find another movie or, yeah, let alone a slasher movie that comes close in comparison. Yeah. And I think classics like those are just like untouchable.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Especially for how original it is with the mask and the robe and how you don't really understand why he goes after the victims he goes after until I mean, besides Sydney, we know why. Yeah. But all the other ones kinda feel just random. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So I always think about when I watch it during Halloween, it's always the first movie I think of. It's always that classic. As soon as it's October, I'm like, I gotta watch that movie. Yeah. I always think about, like, why why is it always the most random people and then it's Sydney?

Speaker 2:

Why is it never just strictly he's just, like, killing people to kill people at that point. But I like how it still casts such a new audience every single year. Mhmm. And it's been out for what? Thirty, forty years Yeah.

Speaker 2:

At this point. Mhmm. And the fact that it's still highly talked about and the fact that the franchise is still extremely successful Yeah. It's gotta say something.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. I think it's definitely interesting to see how they remain relevant in this time now. Mhmm. I think it's a pretty it's a way, like, from like a from like a marketing and advertising standpoint, it's such an amazing thing to see, like, how can it still be relevant, one singular movie from the nineties still be relevant today Yeah. Like thirty years later.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. Like, so interesting to see and how they have changed their ways so it could be more grasped into the eras now and be more relatable with now, the technology of it, the phones and everything. Like, it's it's so much easier to call Sydney up.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Be like, where are you? Where you at?

Speaker 1:

Let me kill you. Like Yeah. Let me book a ticket.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. But like, now it's like so they have to work around that and like they're working harder to make sure that it still holds true to the original, which is so amazing.

Speaker 2:

And the marketing for these movies are

Speaker 3:

Are insane.

Speaker 2:

Because the last movie came out, I believe Scream six came out in 2023. Yeah. And I was shocked to see they were making another one. But Mhmm. It wasn't like people were like, oh, they're making another movie.

Speaker 2:

Because there are some series that, like, go on for way too long.

Speaker 3:

Right. Like, I would say, like, Halloween is a very Yeah. Like, just kill him. But, like, Scream, they do something different each time. It's not always the same person.

Speaker 2:

It's Even though Sydney is still always the main character Yeah. It still makes it so relevant.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

Like, even though it can be a completely different killer going after, but it's

Speaker 3:

still Sydney. And I feel that still holds the same value. It's still Sydney, but you're still trying to figure out who Ghostface is. Mhmm. Like, Halloween, it's always gonna be Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. Like, it's nothing different. But, like, with Scream, it's this it's so different.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. And for future, and let's say five, ten years, it's gonna be older. How do you think people are gonna still perceive this movie in like five to ten years?

Speaker 3:

I think people will still perceive it the same way. I mean, it's still a classic. It's still there. It's up with one of the greatest It's the section of the greatest movies of all times, like, in most people's minds. Like, you think slasher, you think scream, you think Halloween.

Speaker 3:

It's up there. That is the Halloween movie. Epitome It is. Of a slasher movie, and I think it will still reign true in ten, twenty years.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. And especially because Halloween just passed, like, it still feels so relevant to And like, people still watch it. Like Exactly. Like, it's the it's like crazy to say, but it's to me, it's like my comfort horror movie. It's Yes.

Speaker 2:

Always been great and it I think it's still gonna be the exact same in ten years.

Speaker 3:

And I

Speaker 2:

think Like, I know I'm gonna be 30 and I'm gonna be watching it again.

Speaker 3:

Watch and scream. And I think the best part about it is that, like, yes, it's a it's like a Halloween y vibe. Yeah. You can watch it year round. And that's what I love to feel because it's not in any sense related to a holiday, but it it has a specific holiday for Halloween.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. But I love in the middle of summer. It's July. It's hot

Speaker 2:

as Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

Like, heck outside. Yeah. And I love to sit down and watch me some slashers. So Yeah. Exactly.

Speaker 3:

I think it's awesome.

Speaker 2:

I think it's always the best to

Speaker 3:

watch it during Halloween. But like,

Speaker 2:

I I've watched it after Christmas. Like Right. It's just It always feels the same no matter what time of year it is, but it always hits extra

Speaker 3:

And I think that's in October. That's what stands out between it and different other Halloween Yeah. Halloween movies.

Speaker 2:

Because there's some Halloween movies I can't watch outside of October, November.

Speaker 3:

Like, I'm not about to watch Halloween No. Outside of Halloween. Like, that makes no sense. I can watch Scream on Christmas Day and I'm gonna be like, okay.

Speaker 2:

And I think with Scream, I like how it wasn't like a Halloween based movie. Yes. It's genuinely just a slasher movie.

Speaker 3:

And I think that's what helps it out the most.

Speaker 2:

I think that's why it's become more successful than other movies that perceive it strictly as like a Halloween movie. Right. Because then it doesn't fit really Yeah. In any other time watching it. Like, I could watch this any time of the year.

Speaker 2:

Right. You know? You don't have to be in like that certain mood to watch it.

Speaker 3:

That mindset. Exactly.

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Alright. We're getting into our q and a. How excited are we? So excited. I'm very excited.

Speaker 2:

So how does this movie compare to modern day slashers?

Speaker 3:

I think there there's just like no comparison. I feel like like I I I don't even know, like, you could not tell me a modern day slasher low key because they just don't stand that test. Like, I you can tell me it's a slasher. I may or may not watch it, and I may or may not like it. Like, that's the thing.

Speaker 3:

I just don't think you can just like, if a slasher movie comes out, you're always gonna be compared to a great. And I think Scream is one of those movies you you're gonna be compared to if you can stand the test of, like, is this gonna have longevity in a year? Are people still gonna watch it? Are people still gonna wanna watch it? Are people gonna like it?

Speaker 3:

And I think Scream is something that just it stands at time.

Speaker 2:

It wasn't it definitely wasn't a one hit wonder. No. It wasn't.

Speaker 3:

And it it really seven hit.

Speaker 2:

It's a seven hit. Probably gonna be an eighth and an ninth and a tenth. And you know what? I'll still watch them. Right.

Speaker 2:

Because they always just always do it right. They hit so percent. How does the film rely on, like, the horror aspect? Do you think it's jump scares, tension, the atmosphere? What do you think the style really helps grasp in the film?

Speaker 3:

I think the tension, like, really helps it because they build all this tension. You never know who it's gonna be. Like, every movie, there's always a different killer.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

And I think that's what is so interesting is that you're gonna go into Scream and you're gonna know what's gonna happen. It's gonna always gonna revolve around Sydney.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

You don't know who in Sydney's life is going after her, who in Sydney's life is gonna be killed, and which one of the three main characters that have lasted the longest if they're gonna actually end up dead or not. Yeah. I think that's what is so interesting. And I think that it just really ties together the whole whole sense of the thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. And they definitely do the aspect of, like, it's the person you least expect. So so hard.

Speaker 3:

Well, like, it's so amazing just to see it play out on a screen. And I think it's just it's so so interesting.

Speaker 2:

Oh my god. I 100% agree. Now we have

Speaker 3:

to talk about our three icons that show up in every single movie, Sydney, Gale, and Dewey. Do you think they still feel like the dynamic believable characters in today's standards? I think they do. I think Sydney is just that character that you can't be. I think that she is really strong in her own sets in the character too.

Speaker 3:

I think that they are also just like the actors portray them so well. And I think without strong actors, the movie could have fell very hard.

Speaker 2:

Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

But, I mean, Gale is always back and forth, whether she wants to be, like, a really hardcore journalist or she wants to be, like, a softer person on the inside. And then Dewey's always that sweet voice you wanna hear, like, when a killer's coming after you. Mhmm. And then Sydney, she she really gets sick of it by then in the movie and she just wants to kill them. So I think it's very I think their character dynamics and the way they work together is so interesting.

Speaker 3:

They always have beef lowkey in the beginning of the movie and then come back together.

Speaker 2:

I think I a 100% agree. Especially with how if I was Sydney and it was seven movies and then I'm still getting killed, like, trying to get killed by the same fine. Guy Like, just do it. I I wouldn't have the same strength as where I'd be like, god, I'm over this.

Speaker 3:

I mean, like, know what? At this point, I'll take the nine.

Speaker 2:

And it's impressive especially because, like, we've mentioned, like, it being seven movies and the whole concept is still that she's the one they want to go after. Right. And I feel like in a general sense, like, that would be kinda hard to kinda keep up with. So the fact that they're able to keep you still, like, engaged in Mhmm. The same killer trying to kill Sydney for again and again and again, like, there's gotta be some kind of It's so they're doing.

Speaker 3:

Like, their writers are they their work is really put out for them, and I love how they they really shine through in that work because, like, it's so interesting to see just, how it how can it possibly have seven movies Yeah. Like, with this concept. But it's it's every movie is good in its own sense. Yeah. And I think that it's just so insane to see how it has evolved throughout time.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Now, does the opening scene in the first movie with Drew more still work as one

Speaker 3:

of the best horror openings to date? I think it is. Like, it is such an insane opening

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Because you're thinking, I love Drew Barrymore. She's amazing. I'm gonna go see this movie because she's the main character. She's all over the posters. She's all up in the press, and she's doing all these interviews for it.

Speaker 3:

And back then, like, people were like, oh, so she's the main character, like, Avi. Like, she's got that that, like such the most recognizable movie cover of all time. Yeah. And then you sit down in the theater, five minutes later she's dead. And I think that's such an insane takeaway is that it proves to you that you don't know what the heck's gonna happen in this movie and I think it's so amazing.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. Like, the press for that was incredible. And that's Incredible.

Speaker 2:

In in that entire sense because I remember my mom, she saw it, and she was like, I really thought she was the main character. I go into the theater, and she's done the first five minutes and you're like, okay. Well, then what the heck's the

Speaker 3:

rest the movie about? Like, what's going on? Like, I'm confused. And it puts you in that mindset of all the characters in the movie and I think that's amazing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I really, really, really think it's truly one of the best openings.

Speaker 3:

It's iconic. It's iconic and, like, the phone call's iconic. People still paid homage to it in commercials these days. 100%. And people always know what they're referring to.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. So

Speaker 2:

Like, you play that intro, someone's gonna know exactly where it's from. It even trends on TikTok as an audio. Yeah. Like, it's so well known. How do you feel now that there are seven movies?

Speaker 2:

Do you think that now with seven movies being out or at least about to be out, do you think that lowers the value of the original?

Speaker 3:

I don't think so. I think that the original will always just be the original. Like, it's just there and you can never outshine the original. I think that's what they learned as well, is that when you're going through a sequelized movies that you can never you can never be better than the original, so you shouldn't strive to be better. And I think that's what they took from that.

Speaker 3:

Mhmm. You know, like, you can compare it to other ones. Like, Jurassic World is, like, a very they redid the whole thing. Yeah. And I think that's, like, that, like, pissed a lot of fans off.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. And then you take a look at Scream, and they didn't try to redo anything. They just, like, continued the story. And I think that's what's really important is that they didn't they're not highlighting specific things. They're not talking over something.

Speaker 3:

And I think it it shines through and each movie is so different in comparison to the original. So you can't, like, you just can't compete. So does this film hold up as a classic? It does. It so does.

Speaker 3:

This is, like, one of the most classic movies of all time. I feel like it's up there. Like, you think Slasher, you think Scream.

Speaker 2:

Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

So I think it does.

Speaker 2:

What makes you really feel like it like, compared to other things that could hold up as classics, why do you think this one really holds up as a classic?

Speaker 3:

I think the acting is profound. It's amazing. If you're you're you're looking at it in a standpoint, like, you need the actors to be terrified, and I think that they portray that so well. Sydney is, like, insanely scared in this movie, you can feel her emotions.

Speaker 2:

Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

The intensity goes crazy in this. The mystery of it all, like, who is killing all these people? Like, what's the point? And just like the high school up like, the high school area of it is so interesting. How are they killing these people in high school?

Speaker 2:

Mhmm.

Speaker 3:

Like, seeing the police work and, like, what the heck are the police doing? They're like, well, he not doing nothing. Yeah. So, it's just so interesting to see and I think that like this movie is very like incomparable. Like like, there's a classic like, The Godfather is a classic.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. But like, you're comparing it to Scream and they're two different things. Yeah. Like, I think that this movie is a classic in such an interesting way that like it cultivated audiences so well Yeah. That it's just like you can't take it away.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Is there something you think that if the movie did differently would not make it a classic?

Speaker 3:

Not really. I I personally love it. Like, if the seventh movie comes out and it sucks, then like I still think people are just gonna say the original is just the best. Yeah. Obviously, it is.

Speaker 3:

But, like, the the franchise itself, I think is, like, insanely classic.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

You can't touch it. And I think it's obviously, you can't touch it. It's still a thing. So I just think it's amazing.

Speaker 2:

I think the only way the original could not be held up as a classic is if they killed off one too many people. Because I feel like they killed off a good amount. Yeah. And I mean, there was four remaining. It felt personal.

Speaker 2:

It got more personal each kill afterward.

Speaker 3:

Right. Like

Speaker 2:

And, like, because at first, it's like, it's Drew Barrymore, which just went to high school with her, and then it was the principal, and then it was her one of her best friends. Right. Like, it kinda gets more personal each one. Right. And I think what would have kinda made it not hold up for me personally is if the killers were way too easy to spot Mhmm.

Speaker 2:

If way too many people got killed off for no apparent reason, and if there wasn't like a significance in like the like Right. Killers like the story.

Speaker 3:

Yes. Yeah. Like and even like the back story is insane.

Speaker 2:

Like, it's just,

Speaker 3:

like, the tie everything that ties together is

Speaker 2:

so perfect. I think if the backstory didn't hold up, like Like, they really was wouldn't really have made the movie a classic memoir. I think it would have just been another horror movie that I could watch and never watch again. Like, he just went crazy. So our final verdict is that it holds up as a classic.

Speaker 2:

It holds up heavy. Awesome. I love that. And that makes my heart happy because it is a classic. It's a Right.

Speaker 2:

It's something that's always gonna be a classic. You could ask me that in thirty years and I'll still say this thing.

Speaker 3:

I will die on this hill.

Speaker 2:

I will die on

Speaker 3:

this Like, this movie is so good.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you so much, Jenna, for coming into the studio today to talk about our favorite movie. And for those at home, the Scream seven movie comes out February 26, I believe, or 2026. They probably are already selling tickets, but if you haven't seen the trailer, go watch It's out on YouTube. And again, thank you so much for your time.

Speaker 3:

Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2:

I had so much fun. Yes. Bye. Bye. This episode of the Classic Hold Up podcast was produced, edited, and written by Elle Hebelink.

Speaker 2:

Special thank you to Jenna Sampson.

Speaker 1:

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