Scream 4 (2011)
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| Dimension Films |
As soon as the film started, I fell in love. Not with the
movie but with a girl in a purple shirt. She griped about horror films lacking
characters and relying too much on gore, which is a woman after my own heart.
However the girl was killed within moments and my heart was broken; R.I.P.
“Purple Shirt Girl.” It’s too bad she didn’t live long enough to see Scream 4
because while this movie is heavy on the blood it does have a very entertaining
story that will please any horror fan.
The film picks up ten years later, with Sydney Prescott
(Neve Campbell) returning to her hometown on a book tour. Dewey and Gale (David
Arquette and Courtney Cox) are back from the original films, this time they’re
a married couple, which references their relationship on and off screen. The
rest of the cast includes Sydney’s
cousin Jill and her high school pals who all closely resemble the gang from the
original movie. The Ghostface Killer is back, teenagers die and the movie does
a very good job of turning everyone into a convincing suspect. Cellphones get
misplaced, video cameras are seen taping a few of the murders, even bloody
evidence is found in someone’s trunk and as far as sequels go, “anything can
happen.”
However I felt that the kids were too detached from the
deaths of their classmates. Rather than attend a funeral, instead they attend a
party to watch the movie-within-a-movie called “Stab.” It’s a time-honored
tradition and they have to be there! The Scream movies are great because they
reference other horror movies but it felt like this one dug a little deeper and
actually referenced our own culture. This was a statement about how kids are
desensitized to violence so deaths of their friends weren’t affecting them;
though I could be reading too much into it.
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