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Bookmark this pageScream 2 (1997)
Director: Wes Craven
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From Time Out Film Guide
This being the sequel, scriptwriter Kevin Williamson includes a scene in which film students discuss the fact that such movies never match the inventiveness of the original. Quite so. To be fair, by changing the location and concentrating on the haunted victims rather than the demonic killer(s), No 2 avoids a couple of obvious pitfalls. Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott (Campbell) is a college student, piecing her life together with a new boyfriend, her old friend Randy (Kennedy) and a sympathetic roommate. But when a spectator is slashed to death during the local premiere of horror movie Stab - from a book on the Woodsboro incident by cynical TV reporter Gail Weathers (Cox) - the nightmare begins anew. Although returning characters such as ex-deputy Dewey (Arquette) have moved on, the film itself is stuck in a cycle of repetition, with slight variations. Compared to most contemporary horror fare, this is intelligent and frightening; compared to the original, it just doesn't cut it.Author: NF
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- CMrok93 said...
- Posted on Oct 24 2010 23:56 Its great blend of humor, and horror attracted me the most, and kept me into this movie. Easily one of the best horror movie sequels of all-time! Nice post, check out my review when you can!
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Cast & crew
Director: Wes Craven
Producer: Cathy Konrad, Marianne Maddalena
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Liev Schreiber, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, Elise Neal, Jerry O'Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Jada Pinkett, Wes Craven full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 120 mins
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