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Movie Review   Janelle Mowat 11b

SCREAM 3

Until the release of the first Scream movie in 1996, the horror genre was temporarily dead. No good horror movies had made that decade, and we all thought it was over…

      Scream reopened doors for horror/crime genre. A few years later, the sequel, Scream 2 was released, and we were again engrossed in its strong storyline. This time around, director Wes Craven does not disappoint, and delivers a movie which eclipses even the first 2, covering new ground, and creating new scares, and new scenarios.

    In horror movies, there are certain rules you have to follow in order to survive. The characters in the Scream movies know this, and live through the movie, as if they’re following the rules of a horror movie. If Scream set the rules, and Scream 2 bent them, Scream 3 breaks the rules, and as they say, in the last movie of a trilogy “all bets are off”.

       Revelations are made about the past, and it is assumed you have seen the first 2 movies before you see this one, as this film is mainly about uncovering the past, or trying to find out what really happened in the first 2 movies. It is not so much a “game” as the previous movies were.

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      Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, the troubled young woman who was terrorised by the masked murderer in the first 2 films. In Scream, Sidney was a year 12 student in Woodsboro high, and in the second film, a college student. In the third movie, she is living in isolation, and has taken on a new identity as a phone counselor working from her home.

     Meanwhile, a drama is being played out in Hollywood. The production of “Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro” is halted when two cast members are slaughtered.  The first victim ...

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