Or Scre4m as dumbasses want it to be called. The first two Scream films are a lot of fun. But then it all went to hell when they didn't bring back screenwriter Kevin Williamson for Scream 3 and instead hired Ehren Kruger (Reindeer Games, Brothers Grimm, Transformers 2 rewrites).
It's weird to defend Williamson considering his other movies are I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle and Cursed (a werewolf movie seriously pictured left. yes that's the wolfman giving you the finger). But Williamson really did nail the two Scream films.
Scream 4 reunited the screenwriter, director Wes Craven, Neve Campbell (somehow still adorable) and many surviving members of the previous films.
Word was the script was badass and the ending was so cool they wouldn't even let most of the cast see past page 75.
But word has broke from Williamson that he's off the project and was replaced by ... Ehren Kruger again.
Apparently the re-writes are so bad that unhappy cast members are either dropping out (Lauren Graham) or bitching loudly (Hayden Panettiere).
Despite the fact that this is a blatant retread to a franchise that's thirteen years past its prime, it at least seemed like there was hope for this project. But that's all getting pretty seriously Kruger'ed (who to be fair wrote one pretty good movie Arlington Road).
I'm trying to think of the best Scream ripoffs from the late 90s.
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