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This film carries out to Hollywood on the set of Stab 3. Ghostface makes a reappearance, and threatens the cast of Stab 3 to try and learn of Sidney Prescott's hideout. This forces the survivors of the small town, and the college, to try and figure out who this new killer is before he murders off Hollywoods up and coming new actors, and themselves. This assumed ending to the trilogy was directed by Wes Craven. This film was, like the music industry, affected by the events in Columbine High School. Because of the media turning its attention to satanic messages in music, and the gore in films (because media is always to blame), this film toned down the gore in the film. This film attempted to satire trilogies, but failed to provided the ironic humour of the last two films. There is a good general humour based on the character themselves. It was surprising that this film had only one shocking death of its main characters, and it did not murder any big name celebrity stars. This film fell more into a very general 'whodunit' slasher film. It did have some cliches, but they weren't overtly horrible. This was a good ending to the trilogy. It established its characters in living new lives away from fear. This film did wear thin on its audiences as most trilogies tend to do if its not extremely original.
Bringing back the orignal cast was great, but there really wasn't enough time to get attached to the new secondary characters. The unfortunate thing is that even the characters appeared to be shouting 'not again'. Neve Campbell returned to her role of Sidney Prescott. She was great reviving this role. She gave her character a lot of heart and courage. Courteney Cox returned to her role of Gale Weathers. Her character no longer has that media satire which would've been great in this film. In this film she takes on the role of detective trying to solve the murders as quickly as possible. David Arquette also returned to his role of Deputy Dewey, Dwight, Riley. His character remains the same, only this time he begins as slightly spiteful towards Gale. Liev Schreiber also returned to his role as Cotton Weary briefly. His character wasn't fully given a chance to be more than it was which was unfortunate.
I give this film 3 out of 5 stars! It's a good alleged ending to the film franchise. It doesn't mimic its predecessor's, and instead takes it back to the original horror mystery slasher films.
Answer to last blog: Actress Tori Spelling, who did a humorous cameo in Scream 2, lent her comedic talents to the Scream parody Scary Movie 2.
Que: What was Wes Craven's first slasher film?
The Crazies
I Spit on Your Grave
Straw Dogs
Last House on the Left
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