Thirteen Sundays (and one Wednesday!), summer through fall, featuring well-loved classics, beneath the stars and above the streets of Iowa City. You never know what we’ll add to each screening to butter up your Rooftop experience. Join us for these very fun, special shows, and buy tickets early as seating is limited, and Rooftop shows do sell out!

Doors open with seating and pre-show fun at 8pm. Screening at dusk. In the case of inclement weather, the screening will occur indoors.

SCREAM

'Tis the (Halloween) season! I scream, you scream, we all scream for Wes Craven's SCREAM up on the FilmScene rooftop.

"Remains a highly polished piece of meta-slasher mayhem!" -Lessons of Darkness

"Scream builds to a splattering finale that should leave genre fans highly satisfied." -Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

It may be a little too clot with blood now to see -- given the less than killer sequels and the countless copycat teen horror flicks in the late '90s/2000s -- but SCREAM was groundbreaking for the horror genre upon its release in 1996.

Heavily influenced by slashers of the late '70s/'80s it singlehandedly ushered in the return of the popular horror sub-genre. And yet, at the same time, it took a new stab at "the rules" (the virginal final girl, the bait and switch with the killer's identity, eff and you'll die, etc.).

Almost meta in its approach, screamwriter Kevin Williamson carved a fine line between pastiche and patronizing the classics he was riffing on. It was smart, self-aware horror: Address the rules of the genre, respect them, play by them to an extent, but also don't be afraid to realize they're cliches and poke fun at them a bit. This was a film written by a gore geek about gore geeks getting killed by gore geeks because they had watched too many scary movies.

And to top it all off, a master of horror himself, Wes Craven sat behind the camera to riff on the very subgenre he helped pioneer. (James Wallace, Alamo Drafthouse).

Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Drew Barrymore.