Kevin Williamson

Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known as the creator of the TV series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), The Vampire Diaries (2009–present), The Following (2013–2015) and Stalker (2014–2015). He is also widely known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels Scream 2 and Scream 4. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle (which he also directed), and Cursed.

Works

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 Count3540

Scream 2

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

Release Date1997-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Cotton's Interviewer

Vote Count4394

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 Count5

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 Count44

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 Count23

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 Count9275

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 Count565

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 Count530

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 Count7400

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 Count3001

Scream 4

Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of the Ghostface Killer.

Release Date2011-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count3910

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 Count48

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 Count2864

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 Count1118

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 Count363

Scream 3

While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

Release Date2000-02-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3775

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 Count267

The Faculty

When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!

Release Date1998-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2092

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 Count146

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

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count347

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 Count1709

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 Count5

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 Count3

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 Count728

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

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count8

Vote Count30

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 Count78

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 Count352

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 Count345

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 Count299

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

Scream 7

The seventh installment in the 'Scream' franchise. Plot TBA.

Release Date2026-02-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

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 Count4

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

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