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Rating: 8/10 (14 April 2002)

If you thought SCREAM was bad, then you will be even more disappointed with SCREAM 2. This movie is even worse. Collage grads and survivors from the first movie are now in college (and how coincidentally that both of the two teen survivors both ended up going to the same college) when yet another knife wailing maniac begins killing off people on campus. So...that isn't very original. It is pretty much just the first movie's script rewritten (only dumber). When we learn the identities of the killers, we think "Oh yeah". But, they are both people who were underdeveloped. For one of the killers, we never really get to understand his motive, but hey. The other killer *POSSIBLE SPOILER* turns out to be one of those people who was secretly involved with the first movie. But, in this movie, we don't know about that until the very end. Which makes it just look like writer Kevin Williamson just made up that tie-in motive because he couldn't think of a better one. He too, obviously had no idea who he was going to make the killers out to be until he got to the part of the movie where the killers are supposed to be revealed. And that really isn't that good of a plan. Especially if you are writing a sequel. The main goal of a sequel is to surpass its predecessor. This sequel doesn't do that. Not in the least. The most exciting part of the movie would probably be the end credits with the song "I think I love you" playing by Less Than Jake. I'm gonna give this un-defying horror movie 2/5 just because the end credits were better than the first film's.