Scream scored less than 81.5 % on Rotten Tomatoes .
Compared to Screams 83 % and Scream 2s 81 % with general consensus that `` Scream 3 became what the series originally started out spoofing '' and concluded that the series `` lost its freshness and originality by falling back on the old horror formulas and clichés '' .
Scream 3