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Scream 2

1997

Wes Craven

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar ...

5.0

21,361

Horror A year after the monstrous success of 1996's neo-slasher flick Scream, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson reunited for this follow-up. Since viewers last saw the characters, nosy newswoman Gale Weathers has written a sleazy best-selling book based on the events of the first film, a book that has been adapted into a Hollywood film called Stab, starring Tori Spelling as Sydney Prescott. The real Sydney (Neve Campbell) ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"If you liked Scream there's no reason you shouldn't like this sequel."	POS
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	"Visceral, witty and appropriately redundant"	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"A horror movie balancing gore and terror with personality, humor and a nifty gimmick."	POS
United States	Jay Carr Boston Globe	"Scream 2 is a clever and wittily manipulative copycat sequel to Scream."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Like all sequels, this one is a transparent attempt to cash in on the original--but, of course, it knows it is, and contains its own learned discussion of sequels (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"It would take an awfully good movie to live up to the hype (...) Scream 2 is not that movie"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Some great comic - and terrifying - moments, but suffers for not being as original as the original (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Think of a 'Friday the 13th' as written by Eugene Ionesco and Luigi Pirandello"	POS

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