Review (The Road to “Scream VI”) | “Scream 2” Takes a Stab at Horror Sequels
Spoilers beware.
Scream is one of those few films I think are as close to perfect as you can get when talking about movies in general. Genuinely one of my favorite films ever (it’s also one I’ve already reviewed, so go check it out in my Scream article list if you want to know my thoughts). It works as a straightforward horror film and even more so as a satirical meta-commentary on the horror genre, basically the first of its kind. With Scream 2 being thrust into production 6 months after the original and being released only a year later after the first, concerns rose as to whether or not Scream 2 would be nothing more than a rushed and churned-out sequel to a beloved film. Thankfully, with Wes Craven back sitting in the director’s chair and Kevin Williamson returning to write the screenplay, Scream 2 ends up being a more than successful sequel in my book.
2 years after the brutal murders of Woodsboro, Sydney Prescott along with Randy Meeks and her new boyfriend Darek Feldman are attending Windsor College. When two college students are killed at a screening of the new Stab movie, an in-universe movie based on the in-universe Woodsboro deaths, Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley arrive on the scene, leading our returning characters as well as various newcomers towards the identity(s) of the new…
