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Huffington Post // Technology

The Darkly Funny Story Behind That Snarky Easter Egg In Scream's Closing Credits

Tuesday 29th October 2024, 12:06PM

The iconic Scream villain GhostfaceIf Scream is one of your go-to Halloween films, you may have noticed that in the closing credits, there is a strange note from the production team. At the end of the film, a disclaimer pops up which reads: “No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City school district governing board.” While this may seem silly or lighthearted, it turns out that the production team was deeply serious with this swipe, and for good reason (even if it is still a little funny).That’s because the aforementioned governing board apparently caused a huge roadblock, which stopped planned filming going ahead as planned.The setting of Scream was supposed to be differentAccording to a 1997 Los Angeles Times article, the Scream filmmakers believed they had secured the film’s primary shooting location of Santa Rosa High School.However, once the crew were in pre-production, they discovered that actually... the deal to film in the high school hadn’t been fully signed off, and the verbal agreement the team thought that they had secured wasn’t enough to go ahead.Marianne Maddalena, execut

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