Where was Scream filmed?

Poor Casey. She never even got a backstory.

Casey Becker is home alone when she receives a call from an unknown person, who proceeds to chit-chat in a very comfortable, non-threatening manner – until, of course, he doesn’t.

As the phone call takes a turn for the even creepier, the caller continues to ask Casey her name, to which Casey finally replies in a straightforward manner, “Why do you want to know my name?”

“Because I want to know who I’m looking at,” the caller replies in an equally straightforward-yet-oh-so-psychotic manner.

And that’s when everyone knows that Casey Becker is in for a rough night. She finds herself at the hands of a psychopath, demanding she satisfy his lust for horror movie trivia or face the (bloody) consequences – which in this case is her boyfriend bound and gagged on her back porch.

After failing to answer a question correctly, Casey sees her boyfriend stabbed to death before she herself comes face to face with Ghostface. Taking a butcher knife of her own in a nod to her favorite film (and horror classic) Halloween, Casey tries to run but is ultimately no match for the killer, who finally catches her and stabs her to death before hanging her body in a tree (without ever tripping on his or her very unwieldy black robe).

The home used for Casey’s house is in a fairly isolated area of Glen Ellen, California, just a few miles southeast of Santa Rosa. The home is located at 7420 Sonoma Mountain Road, and it sold for nearly $6 million in 2016. It is a private home, so walking up to the house to take photos is not recommended without express permission from the homeowners.

After the murder of Casey Becker, the small community of Woodsboro is abuzz – and what town wouldn’t be – Sidney finds herself living in teenage hell.

Her arch-nemesis, which is really just code for an investigative reporter that got on Sidney’s bad side while looking into her mother’s murder, Gale is back in town sniffing around, and her relationship with boyfriend Billy Loomis is rocky to say the least.

While waiting on Tatum, Sidney receives a call from presumably the same jerk who terrorized Casey – and she is having none of it. She goes outside and taunts the caller herself, asking him if he can see her before picking her nose and asking him to tell her exactly what she’s doing. Telling the caller, who she clearly believes is a friend, to tell Tatum to hurry up, Sidney starts to disconnect the call.

That’s when Ghostface brings out the crazy.

“If you hang up on me you’ll die, just like your mother!” says the voice, now more menacing than creepy. “Do you want to die, Sidney? Your mother sure didn’t!”

After hurling two choice words at the caller, Sidney locks herself in the house, only to discover that Ghostface was waiting for her in the coat closet. After a struggle, with the killer taking entirely too long to mess with her instead of just finishing the job, Sidney breaks away and runs to her bedroom, where the killer has her trapped until her boyfriend bursts through her second storey window, saying he heard her screaming.

The home that stood in for Sidney’s house is located at 1820 Calistoga Road in Santa Rosa, California. It’s a short drive northeast of the city center in the outlying rural area. This is also a private home, so don’t trespass for photos. Stick to photos from the road if you haven’t received permission from the homeowners.

Simultaneously scary and funny at the same time, the scene featuring Randy is one of the best in the entire movie.

Randy (Jamie Kennedy) is what you might call a horror movie junkie. He knows all the tropes, all the unwritten rules, all the methods directors use to scare and fool the audience. He’s happy to point these things out to fellow party-goers, too.

In an alcohol-infused state, Randy is lying on the sofa watching Halloween. As he watches killer Michael Myers get closer and closer, Randy tells Laurie, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, to turn around, since her would-be killer is standing just behind her.

That’s when we see Ghostface creep up behind Randy from the kitchen. The humor in the scene, dark though it may be, comes from Randy’s insistence that Jamie (Curtis) turn around and be aware of her surroundings, while simultaneously being completely unaware that the killer is directly behind him as well.

Also, the fact that Randy is played by Jamie Kennedy, and he’s begging Jamie to turn around, was not lost on viewers.

This scary Scream scene takes place at Tatum’s house, where the previously-mentioned ill-advised party takes place. The house that belongs to Tatum in the movie is located at 824 McDonald Ave. in downtown Santa Rosa, California. The home is privately owned, so stick to taking photos from the street unless you have secured permission from the homeowners to be on their property.

Sidney was traumatized by the rape and murder of her mother a year ago, and news reporter Gale Weathers was there to see it all in real time. While trying to get an inside scoop, she insinuated that the man responsible for the crimes, who was convicted and imprisoned, wasn’t the actual perpetrator.

Of course, this didn’t sit well with Sidney, and when Gale shows up again after Casey Becker’s murder looking for another scoop, Sidney’s hackles are immediately raised, along with her fists.

Because she’s a no-nonsense reporter on the scent of a hot developing story, Gale tracks Sidney down as she’s leaving the police station and follows her into a narrow alley hoping to get some information, although any information she might pull from a traumatized teenager should be considered immediately suspect.

Although her questions are obviously related to the most recent Ghostface attack, Sidney asks Gale when her book will be released, revealing the reporter is writing a tell-all investigative book about her mother’s murder. Unfazed, Gale answers that the book will be out later that year.

“I’ll send you a copy,” Gale says snarkily as Sidney turns to make her escape.

Instead of a blazing comeback, however, Gale is met with a stiff right roundhouse from Sidney, sending her flailing backwards into her camera crew as Sidney and Tatum march away.

Just outside the Healdsburg Police Department, which was also used in the film, is the alley where this scene takes place. You can get to the alley by taking Center Street to the north end of the building, between the Police Department and Tom Cariveau Fiduciary Services. Sadly, the alley has been remodeled and doesn’t appear as it does in the film, the door having been removed when the building was renovated.

As all hell breaks loose at a party meant to celebrate the fact that the school has been shut down because all hell has broken loose, Tatum, who has been a brassy, resilient defender all this time, is in the spotlight for a very different reason.

After Ghostface crashes the party – because of course he did – Tatum finds herself separated from what’s left of the group. Realizing she’s cornered in the garage with Ghostface closing in for a theatrical stabbing, Tatum at first thinks it’s just someone pulling a prank – just like everyone else who has so far ended up dead.

“Do I get to play the helpless victim?” she quips as Ghostface nods sagely.

When she realizes it’s most definitely not a prank, she tries to get the upper hand by launching empty beer bottles straight at his head. Good move.

However, after running out of ammunition, the busty and decidedly non-feline Tatum tries to escape through the doggie door. Not a good move. Caught in a compromising position, Tatum can only wait in terror while Ghostface decides to quell his stabbing urges just this once and instead slowly raises the garage door, crushing her to death.

This scene also takes place at Tatum’s house, located at 824 McDonald Avenue in Santa Rosa.

This is the moment everyone has been waiting for: is Ghostface a local? Someone the teens have spoken to, interacted with, perhaps are even friends with? Or is he just some nameless, homeless psychopath who just happened to be passing through Woodsboro for a couple days?

As it turns out, viewers who bet on the first option are the big winners, if there is such a thing. After the scattered friends begin to come back together in the house – because why would you want to head to a town full of lights and non-robed people – Sidney finds a bloody Billy and gives him the gun she had taken from a dead police officer to protect them.

After letting Randy in the house, after which he and Billy simultaneously accuse each other of being the murderer, Billy shoots Randy, revealing himself to be the killer the whole time.

How, you ask? (It’s easier than asking why.) Out comes a maniacal-looking Stu, talking into a voice changer. One had been harassing victims on the phone while the other did the stabbing, making it appear as if the killer was in two places at once.

If you’re still wondering why at this point, you’ll likely be disappointed. When questioned by Sidney, Stu simply answers “It’s all fun and games.”

Presumably, that is the psychotic equivalent of “Because.”

Like the last third of the movie, this scene takes place during – well, after – the fateful party at Taylor’s house. The home, located at 824 McDonald Avenue in Santa Rosa, is privately owned, so stick to taking photos from the curb unless the homeowners give permission to be on their property.