The call was coming from inside the theater on Sunday night.
Scream fans packed the historic Texas Theatre for a 30th anniversary screening of Wes Craven’s 1996 horror classic. The special event, which was presented by Texas Frightmare Weekend, was not just a movie screening; it was the promise of live commentary from the film’s stars, Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich, the men behind Stu Macher and Billy Loomis, cinema’s most charmingly deranged teen murder duo.
It also marked the first time Lillard and Ulrich have ever recorded official commentary for Scream. They did it live in Dallas, in front of a crowd that sold out the event about two hours after it was announced. Between the theater’s main auditorium and simulcast in the smaller screening room upstairs, tickets for the roughly 840 seats vanished faster than Casey Becker’s evening plans…