Get ready to Scream again! Even if less intensely...

Rating: 7/10 (17 October 2006)

*Scream SPOILERS 2*
2 years after 'Scream', Sydney (Neve Campbell, 'Three To Tango') is now in college, and precisely at Windsor College, with fellow survivor Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy, 'The Jamie Kennedy Experiment'), a new best friend, Hallie (Elise Neal, 'Close To Home') and boyfriend, Derek (Jerry O'Connell, 'Sliders').
But the terror comes back into her life when two young coeds, Maureen Evans (Jada Pinkett Smith, 'Woo') and Phil Stevens (Omar Epps, 'House, M.D.') are brutally murdered at a screening of 'Stab', the slasher movie based on Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox Arquette, 'Friends')' book about the Woodsboro murders, and the night after, the killer murders another coed, Casey 'CiCi' Cooper (Sarah Michelle Gellar, 'The Grudge'), and calls her, saying 'It's time, girlfriend!' before attacking her again.
Who is the killer? Randy? Hallie? Derek? Lois (Portia DeRossi, 'Arrested Development')? Murphy (Rebecca Gayheart, 'Vanished')? Mickey (Timothy Olyphant, 'Deadwood')? That new annoying journalist, Debbie Salt (Laurie Metcalf, who strangely plays a psycho also in 'Desperate Housewives'... hint hint)? Or maybe it's the newly free Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber, 'The Manchurian Candidate (2005)') who wants his revenge against Sydney? Dewey (David Arquette, 'Ready To Rumble') arrives in town to help, allying with Gale, but will it be enough?
'Scream 2' is... well, a decent sequel to the 1996 thriller/slasher/satire; it obviously falls short of the original, but that was to be expected.
Still, it's ideal for a popcorn horror night and fun.
Scream 2: 7/10.