SCREAM 4 - REVIEW

 STARRING NEVE CAMPBELL COURTNEY COX DAVID ARQUETTE EMMA ROBERTS RORY CAULKIN, HAYDEN PANETTIERE

KILLER FEMMES ON THE LOOSE ANYONE? The film within the film beginning of SCREAM 4 - give us a bit of a hint who is the new serial killer Ghostface at Woodsboro hood.  I also mentioned or should I say predicted on February 4 here at Eyepus who was one of the serial killers (spoiler alert ahead) none other than Rory Caulkin.  The other killer I wont tell you who it is...

Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is back at her old hometown Woodsboro to promote her self-help book Out of the Darkness.  And before you know it bodies start piling up nearby and she is a suspect.  And everybody else is a suspect.  Sydney stays over at her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonald) and Cousin Jill (Emma Roberts).  Everybody gets turned out by the serial killer Ghostface.  No one is safe.  The cat and mouse chase begins trying to figure out who is behind the Ghostface costume.  Dewey (David Arquette) now as the new Sheriff in town and Gale Wethers (Courtney Cox) now both married are in hand to capture the new face behind the Ghostface costume.  The film becomes a turn of twists and turns, bloody as hell, new creative stabbing ways, dark neighborhoods, cops getting stabbed in the head on the sidewalk, teens gutted, and a fast Ghostface always on the go.  

For a Fourth Installment SCREAM 4 delivered a cute, scary fun ride.  But honestly, no more sequels for this franchise. Enough is enough. How many times are we going to see Sydney Prescott get shot, stabbed, sliced, beat, gouged, dragged, served, chopped and still live through all the madness? Enough. She is not ASH from the EVIL DEAD series...  Rumors has it there maybe another installment in the works - Hell No!.  Maybe in the next SCREAM installment Sydney Prescott is all TERMINATOR Type, all pumped, diesel, leather jacket with chainsaw and shotgun in hand ready to get the next Ghostface.

I must say this was a good comeback for the legendary Wes Craven after his last horrible, tacky, trash film MY SOUL TO TAKE.  Craven really mastermind a wonderful and colorful direction with this installment.  Kevin Williamson delivered some good sequences and liners in the script... The film made close to 19 million over the weekend at the box office - the lowest from all the SCREAM films.  Lets just pray no more SCREAM installments.  Let this legendary franchise go to sleep in classic mode.  No more remakes and no more sequels.   

I give SCREAM 4 - THREE STARS - a good little fun ride.