“even your friends.”
“my friends? what world are you living in? i don’t need friends! i need fans. don’t you get it? this has never been about killing you, it’s about becoming you. i mean, for fuck sake, my own mother had to die, no great loss there, so i could stay true to the original. sick right? well sick, is the new sane. you had your 15 minutes, now i want mine! i mean, what am i supposed to do? go to college? grad school? work? look around. we all live in public now, we’re all on the internet. how do you think people become famous anymore? you don’t have to achieve anything. you just gotta have fucked up shit happen to you. so you have to die, sid. those are the rules. new movie, new franchise. there’s only room for one lead, and let’s face it. your ingenue days, they’re over.”
easily the best scream movie, apart from the original of course. scream 3 definitely killed the franchise slightly, the unneeded tonal shift and just underwhelming final act. i feel like all my criticisms of scream 3 are fixed with this masterclass sequel. scream 4 is kinda the oddball of the franchise - it is 11 years later from the previous film, and 11 years before the fifth film. which is a shame - because i kinda wish we got more films centred around this group of characters - particularly jill roberts. i feel like this is the smartest film since the 1996 horror movie. this time clearly pointing fun at the 2000s horror remakes - with that really trashy, musty yellow hue that some hate, but i think it’s a really unique feature, and my biggest issue with 5 & 6 is everything just looks so dark and dull. another way it’s points fun at the 2000s remakes as scream 4 is noticeably significantly gorier than the original trilogy, maybe even gorier than the recently released sequels. it mirrors how horror remakes traded off the charm of the source material, and instead replaced it with extreme gore (like black christmas, or the texas chainsaw massacre). the setting, back at woodsboro, is refreshing - and the final act location while simplistic, is fun - a hospital as the final act is really effective. the horror festival is also one of my personal favourite scenes. used to hate the opening scene, but i’m learning to like it more and more - the film in a film thing was honestly really cool. and finally - jill roberts. best ghostface, and it’s not even a competition. her motive was extremely ahead of its time, and i kinda relate to her to be honest. maybe scream 8 should be where she’s the main character? probably unlikely but i can dream
“even your friends.”
“my friends? what world are you living in? i don’t need friends! i need fans. don’t you get it? this has never been about killing you, it’s about becoming you. i mean, for fuck sake, my own mother had to die, no great loss there, so i could stay true to the original. sick right? well sick, is the new sane. you had your 15 minutes, now i want mine! i mean, what am i supposed to do? go to college? grad school? work? look around. we all live in public now, we’re all on the internet. how do you think people become famous anymore? you don’t have to achieve anything. you just gotta have fucked up shit happen to you. so you have to die, sid. those are the rules. new movie, new franchise. there’s only room for one lead, and let’s face it. your ingenue days, they’re over.”
easily the best scream movie, apart from the original of course. scream 3 definitely killed the franchise slightly, the unneeded tonal shift and just underwhelming final act. i feel like all my criticisms of scream 3 are fixed with this masterclass sequel. scream 4 is kinda the oddball of the franchise - it is 11 years later from the previous film, and 11 years before the fifth film. which is a shame - because i kinda wish we got more films centred around this group of characters - particularly jill roberts. i feel like this is the smartest film since the 1996 horror movie. this time clearly pointing fun at the 2000s horror remakes - with that really trashy, musty yellow hue that some hate, but i think it’s a really unique feature, and my biggest issue with 5 & 6 is everything just looks so dark and dull. another way it’s points fun at the 2000s remakes as scream 4 is noticeably significantly gorier than the original trilogy, maybe even gorier than the recently released sequels. it mirrors how horror remakes traded off the charm of the source material, and instead replaced it with extreme gore (like black christmas, or the texas chainsaw massacre). the setting, back at woodsboro, is refreshing - and the final act location while simplistic, is fun - a hospital as the final act is really effective. the horror festival is also one of my personal favourite scenes. used to hate the opening scene, but i’m learning to like it more and more - the film in a film thing was honestly really cool. and finally - jill roberts. best ghostface, and it’s not even a competition. her motive was extremely ahead of its time, and i kinda relate to her to be honest. maybe scream 8 should be where she’s the main character? probably unlikely but i can dream
