Scream 2 (1997)
Country: US
Technical: Foto-Kem/Panavision 120m
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liev Schreiber, David Warner, Laurie Metcalf
Synopsis:
Some time after the news reporter of Scream has written a meretricious book based on the events of that film, a killer strikes again on the campus of its principal stalk victim.
Review:
Cannily playing on its sequel status by (a) claiming the right not to be as good as its predecessor and (b) replaying many of the same moves, this surprisingly manages more or less to repeat its success as a whodunnit and scarefest. It is the very reality of the violence, if not certain cast members' resilience to it, that sits uneasily with the skittish tone and hence produces fear.
Country: US
Technical: Foto-Kem/Panavision 120m
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liev Schreiber, David Warner, Laurie Metcalf
Synopsis:
Some time after the news reporter of Scream has written a meretricious book based on the events of that film, a killer strikes again on the campus of its principal stalk victim.
Review:
Cannily playing on its sequel status by (a) claiming the right not to be as good as its predecessor and (b) replaying many of the same moves, this surprisingly manages more or less to repeat its success as a whodunnit and scarefest. It is the very reality of the violence, if not certain cast members' resilience to it, that sits uneasily with the skittish tone and hence produces fear.
Country: US
Technical: Foto-Kem/Panavision 120m
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liev Schreiber, David Warner, Laurie Metcalf
Synopsis:
Some time after the news reporter of Scream has written a meretricious book based on the events of that film, a killer strikes again on the campus of its principal stalk victim.
Review:
Cannily playing on its sequel status by (a) claiming the right not to be as good as its predecessor and (b) replaying many of the same moves, this surprisingly manages more or less to repeat its success as a whodunnit and scarefest. It is the very reality of the violence, if not certain cast members' resilience to it, that sits uneasily with the skittish tone and hence produces fear.