This talk focuses on Scream, the acclaimed 1996 slasher movie directed by Wes Craven. It argues that the first installment of the franchise tapped into and fueled the moral panic around teen intimacy in the 1990s, a period during which the private sphere seemed to be (yet again) threatened by multiple perils in the US. More specifically, it shows how the spatial invasion of the characters’ houses in the movie, reiterated by the voyeuristic violation of their privacy (through sadistic telephone calls, identity theft, stalking, and spying), and their physical penetration (during scenes of stabbing and sexual intercourse), dramatizes the vulnerability of American teenagers at a time when the middle-class home was feared to be under attack. Also, as a teensploitation / crimesploitation film, Scream relies on the dual pleasure the viewer takes in watching another person’s privacy being invaded while sitting comfortably in the privacy of their own home, alternating between the position of victim and perpetrator (of privacy invasion), of watching and being watched, of penetrating a stranger’s home while feeling, by proxy, how it feels to have one’s home penetrated by a stranger.