Scream
1996
After a brutal opening murder shocks Woodsboro, teenager Sidney Prescott begins receiving threatening calls from a killer in a Ghostface costume. As the attacker stalks Sidney and the people around her, suspicion spreads through her school and town while the killer turns horror-movie conventions into part of the terror.
Why it fitsMay contain spoilers
Ghostface repeatedly stalks, threatens, and kills Woodsboro teenagers, with Sidney as the central surviving target; the stalking-and-killing structure drives the film.