11 years after the Scream Trilogy ended, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson are back with a fourth edition of the popular horror movie franchise! I myself was very excited to see this movie, though I have not seen the previous three before. This excitement, was mostly coming from the fact that this movie stars Emma Roberts in one of the lead roles.
Featuring three of the original characters from the first three Scream movies, David Arquette, Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell reprise their roles in this fourth installment. Mixing the old generation with the new, Wes Craven was smart to add a whole new cast featuring young talents like Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin and Nico Tortorella to draw in the younger crowd.
Like the previous installments, cameos are featured in the opening of the movie, with Kristen Bell, Lucy Hale, Anna Paquin and Shenae Grimes being the first victims to go. After the bloody opening, the audience is informed that Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has returned to Woodsborough, the town where the iconic Ghostface murders happened. It has been 11 years since any serial killings have occurred, and she is back to promote a book she has written that is about her "moving on from what has happened." However, all hell breaks loose when Ghostface begins to claim innocent lives once again, threatening Sidney to kill off all of her loved ones.
Wes Craven brilliantly delivers a frightening new installment to his iconic franchise, and Kevin Williamson's script is both hilarious and scary at the same time. The Scream movies never took itself too seriously, and neither does this one, as it pokes fun at the horror genre as well as itself. And what shocked me the most was the big reveal of who Ghostface is in this installment. All in all, Scream 4 was a fun new take on the popular series, giving an update to the previous movies that will definitely not disappoint the die-hard fans.
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