Scre4m
Possibly one of the cleverest horror franchises in the past twenty years is back with an entry that seems a shadow of its former glory. Scream 4 (or Scre4m if you want to be pedantic) brings back the original trio of Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and bumbling Deputy…sorry ‘Sheriff'Dewey Riley (David Arquette). However there’s some new kids on the block as well notably Julia Roberts niece Emma stepping in as Sydney’s niece.
The plot is predictable with little to separate it from a thousand other horror movie plots. Nearly twenty years after the Woodsboro murders, Sydney returns home to the famous town to promote her equally famous new book – some nonsense about ‘coming out of the darkness’. About five minutes after she’s arrived in town a new killer starts offing pretty young people. Whilst Kevin Williamson returned to script this fourth entry with Craven directing, it seems to have lost a lot of the original sparkle and wit that made the first two entries so amusing.
There are some great moments in the film – a particularly gruesome murder that makes real estate lebanon look like skipping through a field of daisies springs to mind – but overall Scre4m doesn’t come close to matching the original’s well…originality! The characters are well worn and the usual stereotypes crop up – film geek, jock, jock’s girlfriend etc, – but there are still a few chuckles.
The problem is that Scre4m now exists in an era where cynicism is so rife, that not even a film acknowledging this state can escape snarky critiques…like this one. Overall it’s a passable Friday night movie, but I wouldn’t go out of your way to see it.
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