Kevin Williamson

Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for creating the Scream franchise. In 1995, and unhappy with his futile attempts to get an acting career off the ground, Williamson wrote a self-referential comedy horror script titled Scary Movie, which was subsequently bought by Miramax Films and put into production under filmmaker Wes Craven. Retitled Scream, the movie was a sleeper smash upon release in 1996 and was credited with reviving the horror genre as a commercial money-maker. It has, as of 2026, spawned six sequels and a TV spin-off series. The success of Scream led to Williamson becoming one of the most in-demand screenwriters of the era, with some of his biggest hits including the thriller I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the alien invasion film The Faculty (1998), and the TV drama Dawson’s Creek (1998), which was loosely inspired by his own coming-of-age and ran for six seasons. He also made his directorial debut with the black comedy Teaching Mrs Tingle in 1999. Williamson’s other credits include the TV series The Vampire Diaries (2009) and The Following (2013), as well as the werewolf horror film Cursed (2005). In 2026, Williamson returned to the world of Scream – having only served as a producer on the third, fifth and sixth entries in the franchise – as the co-writer and director of Scream 7.

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Scream

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

Release Date2022-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Charactersd Party Guest (voice) (uncredited)

Vote Count3936

Scream 2

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Release Date1997-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Charactersd Cotton's Interviewer

Vote Count4799

Strip for Action

Two beautiful hostages find themselves pitted against cold-blooded killers intent on escaping with a million dollars in 'laundered' currency. Stranded in an alpine wilderness, the hunters and the hunted play an action packed cat and mouse game with the money and their lives hanging in the balance

Release Date1995-01-01

Charactersd Haker

Vote Count7

Eli Roth's History of Horror

An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.

Release Date2018-10-14

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count51

Creek Daze: A Conversation with Kevin Williamson

Kevin Williamson discusses "Dawson's Creek."

Release Date2009-11-20

Charactersd Self

Scream: The Inside Story

In 1996, the horror master Wes Craven unleashed Scream, a slasher movie aimed at a whole new generation of teenage movie-goers.

Release Date2011-04-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count24

Behind the Scream

A documentary on the 'Scream' trilogy.

Release Date2000-09-26

Charactersd Self

The Vampire Diaries

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

Release Date2009-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count14

Vote Count9681

Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

Release Date1998-01-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count617

The Following

Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003. Ryan, working closely with an FBI team, including Mike Weston and FBI Specialist Debra Parker, piece together the ever-growing web of murders orchestrated by the devious Carroll.

Release Date2013-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count599

Scream 7

When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.

Release Date2026-02-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1165

Scream

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Release Date1996-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count8073

Scream VI

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

Release Date2023-03-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3259

Scream: The TV Series

What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.

Release Date2015-06-30

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count1178

Scream 3

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

Release Date2000-02-04

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count4107

Stalker

A pair of detectives investigate stalkers in Los Angeles. Strong and focused, Lt. Beth Davis is an expert in the field of repeated harassment, driven by personal experience of being a victim. She heads the LAPD's Threat Assessment Unit, which investigates cases of stalking -- including voyeurism, cyberharassment and romantic fixation. The history of recent transfer Jack Larsen -- whose personality and questionable behavior have been an issue in the past -- may help him in his assignment to her team. Her other detectives are young but eager Ben Caldwell and deceptively intelligent Janice Lawrence. Together they try to stop situations from spinning out of control -- and to keep their personal obsessions at bay.

Release Date2014-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count153

Tell Me a Story

The world's most beloved fairy tales reimagined as a dark and twisted psychological thriller.

Release Date2018-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count274

Scream 4

Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

Release Date2011-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count4233

The Secret Circle

After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in the small town of Chance Harbor, Washington. As she gets to know her high school classmates, strange and frightening things begin to happen. They are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle. What they don't yet know is that darker powers are at play and that Cassie's mother's death might not have been an accident.

Release Date2011-09-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count22

Vote Count366

The Faculty

When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.

Release Date1998-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2290

I Know What You Did Last Summer

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

Release Date1997-10-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3303

The Waterfront

A prominent North Carolina fishing family wades into treacherous waters to keep their crumbling business empire afloat.

Release Date2025-06-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count90

The Exorcism

A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film, leading his estranged daughter to wonder if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.

Release Date2024-05-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count441

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.

Release Date1998-08-05

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Vote Count1820

Hidden Palms

Johnny Miller was a typical 15-year-old until his father committed suicide. Now Johnny lives in Palm Springs with his mother and her new husband. On the outside, Palm Springs is a paradise - but as Johnny learns the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of this seemingly typical neighborhood, he and his family wonder how well they really know the people who live right next door.

Release Date2007-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count31

Glory Days

Wünderkind author Mike Dolan achieved literary fame at age 21 with a steamy exposé on his seemingly idyllic Maine town. Six years later, he hasn't written another word and reluctantly returns home in search of an antidote... where he is welcomed back with all the warmth of a lynch mob and where various odd and unpleasant occurrences are happening.

Release Date2002-01-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count9

Vote Count7

Time After Time

A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet secretly psychopathic—Dr. John Stevenson, better known as "Jack the Ripper," following the doctor's brazen escape from the Victorian London authorities.

Release Date2017-03-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count80

Cursed

A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all.

Release Date2005-02-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count778

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade on a project. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.

Release Date1999-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count366

The Originals: The Awakening

The story of Kol Mikaelson one of the wildest of the original family and how he spent his time in New Orleans.

Release Date2014-11-14

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

Sick

While quarantining at her family's lake house during the pandemic, Parker and her best friend are threatened by an unexpected visitor.

Release Date2022-09-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count361

Venom

A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.

Release Date2005-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count373

Wasteland

Six post-collegiate professionals in New York City bond as they struggle to make sense of pointless jobs and unrequited love.

Release Date1999-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Scream 8

The eighth installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)

With its series-finale episode, Dawson's Creek summed up its six-year run on the WB Network with a sweet and sad tale of reunion and farewell for old friends, soul mates, and lovers. The friends are now 25 and living new lives: Dawson (James Van Der Beek) is in Hollywood executive-producing The Creek, obviously based on his own life and considered "the new hit teen soap at the WB"; Joey (Katie Holmes) is a book editor in New York with a serious beau; Jen (Michelle Williams) is a single mother; Pacey (Joshua Jackson) is the relatively respectable owner of the reborn Icehouse Restaurant; and Jack (Kerr Smith) is teaching at the high school and struggling with his relationship. A wedding brings everyone together in Capeside, but tragedy strikes, and the remaining friends are left to consider their lives and what they want to do with them. Whether or not you agree with the final choices, of course, probably depends on who you've been rooting for.

Release Date2003-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

The Faculty

When a high school newspaper photographer witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Unmasking the Horror

A short film about the making of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) and its connections to Halloween (1978). It also looks at why the original movie had such an impact.

Release Date1998-06-21

Vote Count1