I’ve already posted about Scream’s greatness in the After Dark section. I was going to go into more detail about the opening scene, which was shot in the first week, might be the greatest opening scene in Horror history and is definitely the scene I would want to have worked on. However, I’ve become fascinated by Scene 118, which is something fans in the film are aware of to the point where there are shirts you can buy online. IMDB describes it as this…
“The party scene near the end of the film runs forty-two minutes long. It was shot over the course of twenty-one days from the time the sun set to the time it rose. After it wrapped, the crew had t-shirts made that read “I SURVIVED SCENE 118” (which was the name of the scene during shooting). The cast and crew jokingly called it “The longest night in horror history.”
This sounded fishy to me because no 1st Assistant Director breaking down a script would lump that finale under one scene. There are Interiors, Exteriors and a number of different locations. You want to break a script down into small pieces so you can better schedule the production. However, it was decided to put this entire location as Scene 118 to treat it like its own mini-production within the larger film. The 1ST used letters to break up the different pieces, as shown in the Call Sheet excerpt above. It’s an unusual move, but certainly one way to look at the script.
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