While Randy is the most obvious example of this - a video store clerk who can wax rhapsodical on the conventions of the genre - all of the teenage characters in Scream are conversant in pop culture.
After all, it is a horror movie that is acutely aware of the rules that govern horror movies. Scream is often discussed as a postmodern and self-aware horror. Scream 2 doubles down on everything that helped Scream become a classic. It does what great sequels do - it engages with the movie that came before, escalating the stakes and diving deeper into the themes. It may even be the best slasher sequel ever made. Understandably overshadowed by the genre-resurrecting movie that preceded it, Scream 2 is the perfect sequel. It’s even more impressive that the film is a slasher masterpiece.
While Williamson disputes the oft-repeated rumor that the identity of the killer was changed in response to leaks, it was nevertheless a chaotic and rushed production.Īs such, it is a surprise that Scream 2 is at all coherent. Even operating on the film’s tight schedule, there were constant reshoots. Extras smuggled video cameras into the filming of the movie’s opening scene, and it quickly circulated online. Williamson would email script pages to director Wes Craven, only for those pages to end up on the internet that night. It seems fair to suggest that his attention might have been split. Screenwriter Kevin Williamson found himself in great demand, writing I Know What You Did Last Summer that released a few months before Scream 2, while working on the stories for the following year’s Halloween H20 and The Faculty. Miramax rushed the film to get it into cinemas less than a year after the original became an unlikely breakout hit. “The genre was dying and Scream saved it,” argued Night of the Living Dead director George Romero in November 1997.Ī sequel was a daunting prospect. “By definition alone, sequels are inferior films!” It is a bold statement, particularly in the context of a rushed sequel to a horror movie that had been greeted as “ a bravura, provocative sendup of horror pictures” that essentially resurrected the slasher film as a credible subgenre. “Sequels suck!” Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) boldly declares early in Scream 2.
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