The killer killed the movie

Rating: 6/10 (5 October 1998)

"Scream 2" could have been a good horror film with its fairly good cast, but unfortunately, it violates an important law of horror movies: the killer(s) and the slayings have to be distinctive, interesting, and inspire terror from the audience! If killing is the business of the killer(s) in "Scream 2," then somebody had better file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Except for toying with Sarah Michelle Gellar over the phone a little, the killer(s) in this movie just stabs and runs. How terrifying...Ironically, when "Scream 2" has an in-class discussion about sequels being inferior films, it ends up referring to itself. The Friday the 13th series often get maligned as mindless slasher films, but at least Jason killed some of his victims in unusual ways, such as swinging one of them against a tree like an axe or smashing & electrocuting another one by smashing a TV set on his head. If the killer(s) of "Scream 2" would employ methods of murder like those, then it could be deemed as a worthy sequel to the original.