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The first Scream
was an eye opening thriller that rejuvenated my love for the slasher franchise – a franchise that was seemingly killed
off in the late eighties, does the sequel hold up to its predecessor?
Scream 2 opens very similar to the first; two well-known
actors getting the knife within the first ten minutes. Whether or not they should continue to stick to
this formula is a personal opinion, but for me… this scene worked well to open the movie. Sure,
it was very predictable… but still a good small rush of adrenaline before seeing the real stars of Scream 2.
Scream 2 was almost as good
as the original, but… it is almost a direct clone of the original. The “rules” to survive
a horror movie make another appearance in Scream 2 – something I wish was dropped after the first. It
was great and funny in Scream, but to reprise it once again in Scream 2 (and Scream 3 and 4 as well) was a little much.
You are now making a mockery of a semi-series slasher movie.
The killer’s (or killers’, I will not tell)
background worked well enough – it made enough sense that it seemed semi-plausible. The climax of
the film ends reasonably well, sticking very close to the same formula seen in Scream.
Although it was very similar to the first Scream –
Scream 2 does shine reasonably bright – giving us another reason to watch Neve Campbell run from the Ghost Face Killer.
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