"You remind me of me."
Thankfully eschewing the Scooby-Doo runaround of the third Scream movie, the game cast - old and new - play this 2011 entry seriously to the hilt. Wes Craven directs with a genuine flash of his old energy, clearly on familiar territory here, and the (self-)references fly thick and fast. From the cleverly-constructed opening(s) onwards, this is definitely one for the fans of the original trilogy and horror in general, the ten-years-later hook providing some timely references and updates on the familiar themes, which do at times feel so breathlessly touched upon simply because that is what a Scream film should do. Some characters disappear for alarmingly long stretches of the film, and the referencing of the first Scream film in particular gets annoyingly obvious quite often (although the updated riffs on the original music score are quite lovely), but overall the script and the narrative thrust has a density and sense of purpose that is generally satisfying and carries more content than most modern-day horrors. Scre4m is one belated sequel that does not "f*** with the original".
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