It's been announce that the Scream franchise is going to go ahead on Scream 4. I am not ashamed to say that I do enjoy all 3 of the films. I think they are actually really well done, albeit cheesy. Which is ok, its meant to be, it is a parody of sorts. Which is probably why I enjoy it. I love horror films, and Scream is right on with the stereotyping of them. The victim always makes the wrong choices, and they even state in the film what not to do when being stalked by a killer, yet they still do it. All three films tie in together with Sidney always being the victim, the one being hunted by ghostface. And all the killers are connected to Sidney and her mother in some way, and are all connected to each other. The third being the killer that actually started it all from the beginning by sending Billy Loomis out on his mission. The trilogy kind of made a circle with that third film bringing it back to the first in that sense. It felt like there was a close to the killers out for Sidney, that man behind the murder's/mask was dead.
Most trilogies I only like 2, or sometimes only the first one. Like I know what you did last summer', the third I did not find all that good. They just seem tired by the time #3 comes around, or the same characters are not used, and they try to revamp it. I am a fan of keeping to the original, which Scream has done. Now they are ready for number 4, 10 years after number 3, and at first I thought actually it may work because Scream follows a pattern and a specific storyline involving her mother. Then I heard that Neve Campbell may not be making her return as Sidney. Ok, here we go with 'Ill always know what you did last summer'. The main cast in the 3rd of that one was no longer but they still called it 'Ill always know'? Who is the killer talking to when the people he was pointing his finger at are not in that one? Shouldn't they have called it 'I also know what you did last summer'? This is what Im seeing with Scream 4 without Neve/Sidney. She was the heroin/victim throughout the franchise. Keeping the same title and changing the storyline all around I think would be confusing and a little too random this far in.
I can, however, see one possibility for a spin off type of movie. In the first two movies Sidney killed her killer, which in turn caused the next killer to come after her. Billy went after her, she killed him, his upset mother went after her, she killed her, so Roman decided to to the deed himself since Billy had failed and went after her, now the difference here is Sidney never actually killed him, Dewey did. So now maybe someone will avenge Roman's death by going after Dewey. At least going in that direction would keep in the flow of the story. If it doesn't it just doesn't seem like it would be Scream.
I'm a fan of both Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, so I am excited for the next installment, to see how they tie things together. Just really hoping they follow the same storyline somehow like they have with the past 3. Hoping it's not a let down, and that it doesn't seem like they went to far by going with one more.
