With yet another entry hitting theaters, here are reviews for all the Scream movies.
The brainchild of Kevin Williamson, 1996’s Scream enjoyed playing with the concepts of a classic slasher flick often satirizing them when still using them to tell the story of Sidney Prescott and her friends dealing with a serial killer murdering their way through their small California town.
Not as strong as the first film, Scream 2 has fun revisiting the concepts of the original, throwing in a bit of college life, and introducing new rules for horror sequels.
Rather than offer another sequel, Scream 3 attempts to reshape the three Scream films into a cohesive trilogy, with mixed results.
The characters feel far too long-in-the tooth at this point as the film goes extra-hard with Stab parody sequel cameos in what might be my least favorite of the franchise given its ridiculous ending.
The new Scream is certainly derivative, but with the additions of Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega the results are better than expected.
When characters are running for their lives it works well enough but when the script needs to start putting pieces together for the audience and make sense of characters and events it’s all thumbs.
Scream 7 is indistinguishable from the other middling entries to the franchise. Not great, not awful, it’s just another by-the-book slasher flick which has begun parodying itself at this point.