For those looking to stream Scream 1996, a link to the film has been available on the Internet Archive, a digital library of software, films, music, and more. The film is available for free, and users can watch it online without having to create an account.
It is difficult to explain to a modern audience just how dead the slasher genre was before Scream arrived. By the mid-90s, the formula established by Halloween and Friday the 13th had decayed into self-parody. The tropes were tired: the Final Girl, the empty police station, the ineffective adults, and the "have sex and die" rule. scream 1996 internet archive link