The Ghostface killer from the Scream movies is 25 years old. (Paramount)This article is part of Yahoo’s ‘On This Day’ seriesIt is 25 years since a slasher film quite unlike any other before it ripped through cinema screens.On 20 December 1996, Scream was released, altering the horror genre and cleaning up at the box office.Director Wes Craven had already given the world A Nightmare on Elm Street, but here he went full meta before meta was even a thing.Scream scared its audience while giving them a knowing wink about the genre it was simultaneously homaging and reinventing.The whodunnit asked viewers to work out the identity of the masked Ghostface killer terrorising the fictional town of Woodsboro, California.Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox return for the upcoming instalment in the Scream franchise. (Paramount)It spawned three sequels, while the fifth instalment, also titled Scream, lands in cinemas in January.It reunites much of the main cast from the original film a quarter of a century ago.So, what happened to the principal actors from the 1996 Scream and where are they now?Neve CampbellNeve Campbell at the Skyscraper premiere in New York in July 2018. (PA)Campbell has played Sidney Prescott in all four Scream movies so far, and returns to the character in the fifth instalment next month.Before the first Scream, she was best known for her role as Julia Salinger in the TV series Party of Five, and as Bonnie Harper in supernatural teen horror The Cra… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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