Horror Lamb

Scream 3. 2000.
I have been putting off writing this review because this is my least favourite movie in the franchise. You can definitely tell that the production was absolutely riddled with issues.
To start with, Kevin Williamson wasn’t available to write this movie, so Ehren Kruger was hired. He hadn’t seen the first two Scream films before, but accepted the job because he wanted to work with Wes Craven. Craven eventually had to step in and do his own rewrites, because Kruger’s characterization for the returning characters barely resembled them from the first two films.
Fucking Weinstein eventually stepped in and fired him, Laeta Kalogridis was hired to do some rewrites but was never credited.
The Columbine Massacre had also just happened, and there was a lot of media attention around violence in video games and movies. The studio tried demanding no blood be shown in the movie at all, after Craven threatened to leave, they eventually agreed that it would be toned down, stab wounds are rarely ever shown onscreen, for obvious reasons there are no teenagers killed in this one, and most of the gore that is seen, is after the murder, not during. This is also why we only have 1 killer in this movie.
But let’s get to the review.


It starts with Cotton and his girlfriend getting killed by our new Ghostface and leaving behind a picture of Maureen Prescott. (Sidney’s mother) Our new police officer, Detective Mark Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) for some reason gives Gale Weathers this information and she ends up on the set of ‘Stab 3’ where we meet Dewey again, who is acting as some kind of technical adviser to the cast.
We keep cutting back to Sidney, who is living under witness protection and working as a women’s crisis counsellor, and this is where it gets weird, she starts seeing and hearing her dead mother.

After our 3rd murder, our new Ghostface is claiming they actually killed Maurine, not Billy and Stu and they continue to leave photos of Maurine from when she was younger on the same set that Stab 3 is being filmed. After receiving a call from the killer, using her mothers voice, Sidney arrives on set and then, the best part of this movie happens. Martha Meeks (Heather Matarazzo) Randy’s sister arrives on set with a video tape from Randy telling us that we are not simply in another sequel, this is a trilogy now and there are new rules if you want to survive.
1.you’re killer is going to be superhuman, stabbing him won’t work. shooting him won’t work. Basically in the third one you gotta cryogenically freeze his head, decapitate him or blow him up.
2. Anyone including the main character can die.
3. The past will come back to bite you in the ass.

Carrie Fisher later informs us that Maureen used to be an actress under a stage name and did some movies for John Milton(Lance Henriksen) who is our Producer for Stab 3. He also tells us what we already know about how gross Hollywood is and that Maureen used to go to parties to meet men that “might have taken advantage of her.” At this point I’m really struggling to care about this movie. The climax takes place in Milton’s giant house with the cast of Stab 3, Gale, Dewey, Sidney and the detective arrive at some point. The death scenes here are pretty lame, very little blood used compared to the other movies, once again Gale and Dewey can’t be killed. Sidney also didn’t listen to Randy and has apparently forgotten that the only way to kill these guy is by head shots and wastes her entire clip on body shots, which do absolutely nothing.

Now are you ready for the reveal? Roman fucking Bridger (Scott Foley) The Director of Stab 3 and also, Sidney’s half brother. Yeah apparently Maureen had a baby after one of those gross Hollywood parties. Years later Roman tracker her down and she didn’t want him, so he started stalking her, found out about the affair with Billy’s dad, and it was him that convinced Billy and Stu to kill Maureen. I hate this, I hate this so much, I think it makes Billy and Stu look like stupid little puppets and I despise that. I could happily leave this one out of the franchise and you wouldn’t lose anything.

The best thing that came out of this movie was Cortney Cox’s iconic bangs.