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Scream 3 (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 92 Fresh: 36  Rotten:56 Average Rating: 5.2/10
 
Consensus: According to critics, Scream 3 has become what it originally spoofed. Despite some surprising twists, the movie seems to have lost its freshness and originality by falling back on the old horror formulas and cliches.... According to critics, Scream 3 has become what it originally spoofed. Despite some surprising twists, the movie seems to have lost its freshness and originality by falling back on the old horror formulas and cliches. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Synopsis:
Desperate to escape the demons of her past, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) discretely cocoons herself in a remote, high-security ranch house in the woods of Northern California, where she works as a phone counselor for a crisis hotline. She's content to remain in quiet seclusion, but finds... [More]
Desperate to escape the demons of her past, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) discretely cocoons herself in a remote, high-security ranch house in the woods of Northern California, where she works as a phone counselor for a crisis hotline. She's content to remain in quiet seclusion, but finds herself once again facing mortal danger when the masked killer Ghostface (named for the Munch-inspired costume) begins cutting into the cast of STAB 3--the schlocky series of slasher films based upon the Woodsboro and Windsor College murders. One by one STAB 3's stars meet grisly deaths at the hands of the psychopath, who--armed with a cell phone, a copy of the film's screenplay, and an arsenal of B-movie cliches--gleefully hunts down and eviscerates his victims. The killer's modus operandi adheres to the "rules" of engagement codified by the great film trilogies STAR WARS and THE GODFATHER, which dictate that in the third chapter, anything goes. Now Sidney must return to "Woodsboro"--recreated as the set of STAB 3--and team-up with cut-throat reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), small-town deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley (David Arquette), Hollywood detective Marc Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey), and the remaining cast of STAB 3 in order to stop the killer before he makes his final cut. [Less]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley

Director: Wes Craven
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Laeta Kalogridis
Story: Kevin Williamson
Producer: Cathy Konrad, Marianne Maddalena, Kevin Williamson
Composer: Marco Beltrami

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 7, 2000

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Special Features:

  • Music Video: "What If?" by Creed
  • Added Outtakes

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12/10/01 06:26 PM
Rich Cline
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While Scream 3 is only an above-average film in its own right, as the conclusion to the trilogy it works more effectively than anyone had a right to expect.

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05/29/01 06:12 PM
Tom Coates
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If you want your trilogy to become a franchise, make something grander than Scream 3.

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04/17/01 05:19 PM
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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The other Scream films were also tricky and convoluted, but I don't remember them playing like the WB version of Murder, She Wrote, as Scream 3 too often does.

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08/18/07 07:14 PM
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01/29/03 08:11 AM
Wesley Lovell
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A pretty funny gore-fest that delivers the goods with a few new twists.

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12/08/02 08:12 AM
Tom Meek
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The new movie strays pretty far from the original idea -- that the Scream characters are horror-movie savvy.

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11/22/02 03:51 PM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Just a blur of blood and guts -- exactly the type of dreary mayhem that Scream was born to demolish.

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10/15/02 08:09 AM
Margaret A. McGurk
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09/10/02 08:08 AM
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
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Fulfills its modest ambitions by delivering a glib slasher spoof for the mall crowd.

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06/18/02 08:07 AM
Edward Guthmann
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