• Rose McGowan as: Tatum Riley
• Directed by: Wes Craven
• Selected Cast: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox
• Written by: Kevin Williamson
• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Horror / Thriller
• MPAA Rating: R

Sidney (Neve Campbell) has more than her share of teenage angst to cope with. Her mom was murdered a year ago, her dad is perpetually away on business, and her boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) is pressuring her to go all the way. As if that weren't enough, a serial killer has begun to terrorize Sidney's quiet hometown, including her highschool classmate Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore). With the calculated genius of a perfect predator, the killer is using his love of scary movies to turn the town upside down - taking everything he knows about the genre to trick his victims, outwit the police and throw his pursuers off base. Now, no one is safe - and everyone is a suspect.

Rose McGowan plays Tatum Riley, a witty, smart, funny and tough high school student who attends Woodsboro High. She is Sidney's best friend, Stu Macher's girlfriend and younger sister of Officer Dewey Riley. Tatum appears to be the complete opposite of Sidney, being stronger-minded and an easygoing type of person. Despite this, Tatum looks after Sidney and helps her through her troubled times. She has always been there for Sidney and assumably helped her cope after the brutal rape and murder of Sid's mother. In the words of Rose herself, Tatum is like the "ultimate best friend." After the deaths of local students start to come up, Tatum is, unfortunately, one of the many people who eventually met their demise at the hands of the killer.

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• On Wes Craven
"He's the dad that you would have wanted."

• "Tatum is the classic best friend. She and Sidney have known each other since birth, and they are so close that they literally finish each other's sentences."

• "I think she really wants to believe that if you just have the right clothes and the right lipstick, everything should be perfect."

• "I was blonde in Scream, but that was for a particular reason. I wanted her to look like a middle American girl. I would do white blonde - I like the idea of platinum. I'll do that someday."

• "Yes, I wanted to look very middle American. It's a very middle American kind of hair, which I hated."

• "It was a real garage with a real door, and I went up and down it 20 times. It left me with big bruises all over my rib cage and my back, but I insisted on doing it myself because I think stunt doubles never really look like me. I have a real specific body."

• "Scream is the movie I had most fun on. It was a really great set, which is odd 'cause it looks like it was really intense. It was a really great environment. We had a blast and it was like a party every day."

• "What I didn't tell Wes Craven is that I cannot scream at all. I choke up. No sound. He had to scream at me, literally, when I did my death scene."

• "I would do it again just because it was a really fun experience to do it with a bunch of people that you really dig and have it turn out well. I am really happy about the success of it for everybody involved. They are really kick-ass human beings."

• "With Scream I got to experience the typical, all-American high school life that I never had so that was fun also."

• On the sequel possibilities
"Well, when I died in Scream, I pretty much understood that I was not going to be coming back I really enjoyed being with Neve Campbell and Wes Craven and I am sad not to be able to hang out with them more, but I get to see them socially. I have also done a lot of other roles that are really challenging so I don't feel a void and I was very happy not be a blond again."

• "I look back on it, and now I think it's probably the best set I've ever been on. It was so calm. It was very, very fun, but it was very, very calm. Wes has this lovely professorial tone. He's just got such a lovely, great energy."

• Click here for a full article circa 2011 of Rose McGowan looking back at Scream. Plenty of quotes and trivia for the Scream and Tatum fans!

• [about Casey Becker's death] "It's so sad. Her mom and dad found her hanging from a tree limb, her insides on the outside."

• "We're not just talking killed, we're talking splattered movie killed- ripped open from end to end."

• Sidney: "Casey Becker! She sits next to me in English!"
Tatum: "Not anymore."

• "Well, you're not going to be alone any more, right? If you pee, I pee. Is that clear? "

• "Who am I? The beer wench?"

• "'I'll send you a copy.'" BAM! Bitch went down. 'I'll send you a copy.' BAM! Syd! Superbitch!"

• Sidney Prescott: "You know, if, if I was wrong about Cotton Weary, then the killer's still out there."
Tatum: "Don't go there, Sid. You're starting to sound like some Wes Carpenter flick or something. Don't freak yourself out, okay? We've got a long night ahead of us."

• "Don't worry. Casey and Steve didn't bite it till way after ten."

• "Who am I? The beer wench?"

• "Cut Casper, that's a wrap!"

• "No, please don't kill me, Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!"

• Rose McGowan discovered that she could actually fit through a pet flap.

• Tatum wears a jersey with the number 10 on it. This is the same thing Johnny Depp's character wore in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

• Rose McGowan dyed her hair blonde in order to contrast her black hair from Neve Campbell's.

• The red pants Tatum wears in one scene actually belonged to Rose.

• Rose's favorite scene in the film is the porch scene with Sydney.

• They had to edit Tatum's death scene in order to obtain and "R" rating.

• The idea of the pet door in the garage came from Williamson's assistant. Originally, Tatum's death scene was to be a fist fight with the killer, and having the door come down on her neck.

• Rose got bruises after she did her most of her on stunts.

• These are the horror film rules as stated in the movie:
1. You will not survive if you have sex
2. You will not survive if you drink or do drugs
3. You will not survive if you say "I'll be right back"
4. Everyone is a suspect.
5. You will not survive if you ask "Who's there?"
6. You will not survive if you go out to investigate a strange noise.

• The MPAA wanted to cut out the graphic shot of the killer stabbing Casey Becker at the beginning, but director Craven claimed it was the only take of it they had filmed (which wasn't true). The shot remained intact.

• Reese Witherspoon turned down the lead role of Sidney.

• Melinda Clarke turned down the role of Tatum Riley.

• Rebecca Gayheart auditioned for the role of Tatum Riley, but scheduling conflicts with her film Somebody Is Waiting (1996) prevented her from landing the role. She later turned up in Scream 2 (1997) playing a sorority sister.

• Charlotte Ayanna was considered for the role of Tatum Riley.

• Originally titled Scary Movie which was later used for a parody of the Scream and other pop culture horror films like it.