SCREAM 4
4 out of 5 stars

“you forgot the first rule of remakes. don’t fuck with the original.”
– sidney prescott

almost a decade later, wes craven and screenwriter of the original kevin williamson team up again to produce the fourth scream feat. a fresh/young cast with members of the original movie AKA sidney (neve campbell), dewey the sheriff (david arquette), and of course, gale the news reporter. (courtney cox-arquette or whateverhernameisnow) not bad for a decade-long hiatus! ;)

so, sidney comes home to westboro, and boy, it’s quite the homecoming... she’s now a best-selling author, and she’s come to westboro as her last stop on her book tour. she’s with her bitchy publicist rebecca, and she reunites with dewey and gale at the bookstore. as it turns out, sidney’s rental car had the cell phone and knife that was used in the killings of 2 westboro HS girls from the intro. everyone is shocked, but not really... sidney stays with her aunt and cousin jill (a brunette emma roberts), and the stabbings just keep on coming and the death toll in this quiet town keeps on rising... the killer(s) obviously want sidney’s life, but only after killing off everyone around her first. (just like the first movie!) there’s even a party AKA a stab-a-thon at some farm and an “after-party” at a friend’s house! :P

and..just like the first movie, there’s character equivalents i.e. the 2 movie geeks, the shitty BF, the BFFs (LOL, hayden p. from heroes!), the “heroine” jill, and of course, the clueless cops. scream was probably the pioneer movie to create the horror-comedy genre, and there are a lot of good moments that reference the original in this so-called remake. it’s just too bad that they (wes craven) forgot to incorporate the witty and originality of the first one in this reboot, thus losing points... however, it’s probably best to compare this one against all the other screams before it, so it wins that way. but the BEST thing to do is probably just watch the original this halloween season, if you want wits, blood, and of course, crazy boyfriend billy loomis! god, i miss him being that he’s the biatch that triggered all this... ;)