Scream 3 (DVD)

I have reviewed the other 2 Scream films recently, so thought that I should complete the job and do Scream 3 as well. Wes Craven completes his clever 90s trilogy with this not so clever finale. Set a couple of years after the previous entry, Sidney is now a recluse living in the Hollywood hills with only her dog for company. No surprise, considering everywhere she goes she attracts homocidal seriel killers. And never the same one either - seeing as the previous killers got it in the end. Now though, she has to team up (yawn! - yes again) with Dewey the Dumpling and Gail the Gurner. The rest of their friends are dead, naturally! They couldn't allow the ...  Read the complete review

Scream 3 was released in 2000 and is the third instalment in the Scream series. It is 112 minutes long and rated 18 due to frequent strong language, moderate sexual references and as always, lots of horror, gore and violence. This was the only film in the series that wasn't written by Kevin Williamson although he was co producer. Plot Sidney is now pretty much hidden away in California and works as a women's crisis counsellor from home. Her house has loads of security and no one knows where she is, apart from her dad and Dewey. At the same time, Stab 3 is in production in Hollywood but cast members are being killed one by one. The killer this ...  Read the complete review

Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has been through it something rotten the last couple of years, her Mum was brutally raped and murdered, a number of her close friends have been murdered, she has been targeted by multiple psychopathic killers and now she has retreated to a house in the country where supposedly no one can find her. Having said all that, she doesn't exactly have an enviable life and even three years after she killed the last serial killers that were targeting her she still lives in fear. This time there is yet ANOTHER copycat killer on the rampage yet this time he goes about his business with some aptitude. Stab 3 is now in production and quite ...  Read the complete review

'Scream 3' is an extreme illustration of the law of diminishing returns. It is quite simply a dreadful film, and a savage inditement of Hollywood's cynical drive for cash over quality. I am not a film snob. I have absolutely no problems with film sequels, provided they provide at least some measure of the original's entertainment value. 'Scream 3' does not. It is a dull, limp excuse for a film, made without any real attempt to chill or thrill the paying audience. It is a huge step back in the resurrected career of Wes Craven, ranking up there with 'The Hills Have Eyes Part 2' in the list of films which should never have been made. ...  Read the complete review

Back in the oh-so-distant past, (or the seventies to be precise), slasher movies had their golden age. The dust had settled on the permissive society, and slasher pics showed chirpy teens getting up to all sorts of mischief, and then being swiftly and inventively dispatched by a crazed killer in retribution. Fast forward to the nineties and the prospect of reviving a lucrative sub-genre with more than a hint of irony and post-modern attitude. The phrase "ensemble cast" got movie execs drooling as they imagined the box office numbers; if stars like Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich can open a movie, the three combined can open a BIG movie. ...  Read the complete review