hmmmmmmmmmmm............

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2002)

the thing people don't realise with the scream trillogy is it is just that - a trilogy, like star wars, it was planned years before it was released. Kevin Williamson wrote the first, then the second, then the third - each encompasing a different hart of the overall teen-horror-slasher cliche`.
First off - scream, was a turning poitn for hollywood horror - a well known cast of good lookings, a twisted plot and the typical elements of a slasher. the entire movie was a parody of both horror and itself, lining up and chopong down cliche` after cliche`, then came scream 2.
Scream 2, lampooned one of the most despised artocies in the horror field - the sequal. everyone knows that horror sequals suck so to try and get somewhere they always take on a different angle - trying to be more... horrific then the original. Scream 2 does this - it drops an octave on the comedy and sarcastic aspects of the first, and turned up the volume on the evilness, if you will, on the events. Drew Barrymore was disturbingly realistic as scream's first, but it is the faces of the cinema patrons that watch upon maureen, Scream 2's second victim - and it is things like this that give a more realistic view. Scream 2 gives us a more heart pulling and gut wrenchingly realsitic view. some people have complained that there is no character development - there doesn't need to be. the victims are selected due to their monikas Casey "Cici" Cooper, Maureen, Steven, ect - the names are the significance to the plot, not who they are. Scream 2 is a completely different film to scream - sure poeple discard it as the "typical sequal" but it is worthy and differt.
Scream - Parody
Scream 2 - Realism
Scream 3 - Camp - thats the order and theme associated with each