Scream 2 (1997)

United States of America

Horror, Mystery

Dimension Films, Konrad Pictures, Craven-Maddalena Films, Miramax

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jerry O'Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Jamie Kennedy

Wes Craven

Kevin Williamson

Taglines: Someone has taken their love of sequels one step too far.

mask, college, campus, sequel, slaughter, serial killer, slasher, university, self-referential, copycat killer

Away at college, Sidney Prescott thought she'd finally put the shocking murders that shattered her life behind her... until a copycat killer begins acting out a real-life sequel.

Reviews:

Author: Geronimo1967
So, moving along two years from the first carnage, "Sidney" (Neve Campbell) has moved into the Omega Beta Zeta frat house and is getting on with the her life. Well, that is what she hopes anyway but after a few minutes of this derivative and unimaginative sequel, we are back to square one when she learns on television that the grim reaper is back taking out fans at a sneak preview of "Stab!" - a film based on her first terrifying experiences. Then her friends start to drop, one by one - slasher style. Can she and reporter "Gale Wethers" (Courteney Cox) stay alive long enough to find out just who - or whom - is behind these ghastly crimes? I'm sorry, but this is just a straight and pretty shameless rip off of the first film. It's entirely devoid of menace or originality and the concluding twenty minutes are borderline farce. Wes Craven has a magic touch when it comes to gory action-horror films, but here he left it on the bathroom floor. This is just poor and repetitive and despite a competent cast just left me yawning after twenty minutes. Two hours is simply ninety minutes too long. I'm certain there will be a "Scream 3" - but I don't hold out high hopes.