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Scream 4 begins with a cavalcade of supernaturally attractive and well-known blonde women from the lab living in million-dollar, well-furnished homes, seemingly alone. It wisely tones down the overdone comedy of the third entry for a much bloodier affair, while still seeming brightly lit, like a comedy. The point this time around is that Hollywood makes nothing but sequels; they’re getting predictable and tired. This is true, and Scream 4 ended the series for ten years.
This is the last in the series directed by Wes Craven, who sadly passed away in 2015. However, and as sacrilegious as it might sound, the series after this one desperately needed a chance of visuals and pace. Ten years after the events of the original killings in Woodboro, Sidney Prescott (played again by Neve Campbell) returns with a biography of her life and struggles. Yet, right on cue, the killings begin all over again.
One accepts many things with slasher movies. If you’re expecting something to mirror reality, you are going to be very disappointed. We accept that even while there are (minus the second entry) 2 killers, they would still need the power of teleportation to pull this off. We accept that almost every killer wears blue, usually blue plaid and no one notices. It goes on and on, but the original and the second were done so very well and are classics for a reason.
The third entry to me is awful. It even has a Jay and Silent Bob cameo, which kills everything it might have gone for. While this one offers nothing new except to loosely explored conceot of broadcasting every part of our lives, nothing new. Released in 2011, the concept of streaming your life was not even remotely as popular as today and could have been explored in better detail.
With the exception of the first film, the series not done a stellar job of its red herrings as to who the killer might be. Scream 4 is a lot better than the third entry in pacing, tone, and it seriously amps up the blood. Yet, the killers are obvious the moment you see them and at no point do any of the red herrings seem plausible. They also rank, especially one of them, as some of the most stupid and implausible things these morons could pull off.
We get a lot of returning cas including Gayle and Dewey. I really did not like Dewwy in this one. He’s a jackass for the majority of it and treats Gayle like shit until the very, very end, where I guess we’re supposed to forgive him.
Anyway. Thats a lot of typing to say very little. It’s better than the third, a lot better but still kind of pointless.