{"id":13898,"date":"2018-10-22T20:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2018-10-22T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T01:06:10","slug":"scream-2-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.9deuce.tv\/blogs\/scream-2-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream 2 (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would argue that this is the most loaded cast in horror movie history.\u00a0 Look at this list of actors: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courtney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O’Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liev Schreiber, Laurie Metcalf, Duane Martin, Jada Pinkett, Omar Epps, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia De Rossi, Luke Wilson, Heather Graham, Tori Spelling, and Joshua Jackson.\u00a0 That is absurd!<\/p>\n

I don’t think that you’d be here unless you knew the film pretty well by this point.\u00a0 Lots of sequel\u00a0references.\u00a0 Lots of misleading tactics to make us wonder who the killer is.\u00a0 Once again, this has a great opening scene with Omar and Jada at the movie theater to see the premiere of Stab, which is a parody of Scream, or basically the story that Gale wrote and got picked up for a film.\u00a0 Stab plays a role throughout the rest of the\u00a0franchise so the films can be self-referential, or meta as the cool kids like to say nowadays.<\/p>\n

As far as direct horror sequels go, meaning a part 2, this is definitely top 5 all time, and probably top 3.\u00a0 When you think about sequels, you have Halloween 2, which may or may not count now, Aliens, Saw 2, Devil’s Rejects, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Weeks Later, Ghostbusters 2, and there are a few others I am forgetting.\u00a0 Child’s Play 2, Sleepaway Camp 2, Friday the 13th 2, Phantasm 2, Hostel 2, and a few others are in the very decent conversation. I think Bride of Frankenstein belongs up there among all-time greats.\u00a0 Still, that’s not a huge list.<\/p>\n

I felt that Liev Schreiber, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O’Connell, Laurie Metcalf, Jada Pinkett, and Olyphant all shined in this one.\u00a0 Well, that’s along with the trinity\u00a0of Neve, Courtney, and David.\u00a0 I really enjoyed this film.\u00a0 I remember when I first saw this, I openly questioned if it was a better film than the original.\u00a0 I don’t think that it is, but it is damn close.<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5 = I love this movie.\u00a0 It does everything that you want a sequel to do.\u00a0 I don’t know what more you can ask for.\u00a0 The final fight and reveal all made some sense.\u00a0 This worked.\u00a0 Plus Rebecca Gayheart and Jerry O’Connell are guilty pleasures of mine.<\/p>\n

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