Scream 4

No spoilers!!
Has it really been fifteen years since Drew Barrymore was hung from a tree and gutted like a fish in the first Scream flick? Wow, good times.
Procurer of goosebumps, Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street), pumped some much needed life back into the rotting corpse that was the horror film genre back in the mid 90's and how he's back to resurrect... again... his box office slashing franchise. Will Wes Craven become the George Lucas of horror films or will his fans actually like this new edition to the Woodsboro saga?
Regular Scream scribe Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries) is back with his usual mind-messing twists and blood-soaked deaths. Awesome.
Between 1996 and 2000, Sidney Prescott lost a whole bunch of friends. Almost everyone who knew her or merely just came in contact with her ended up dying in some horrible, gruesome way. If I were Judge Judy and Executioner, I'd lock her away quick smart... for the greater good : )
It is, wait for it... the anniversary of the first Woodsboro massacre and Sidney (Neve Campbell - The Company) is back in town for the launch of her new book. Some old faces are still in W-boro; Dewey (David Arquette - Hamlet 2) is now full-strength Sheriff and married (for ten years) to retired-journalist-come-fiction-writer Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox-no-longer-Arquette - Cougar Town). Deputy Judy (Marley Shelton - Planet Terror) has a crush on Dewey and Gale ain't too happy 'bout that. Sidney stays with her cousin Jill (Emma Roberts - 4.3.2.1.), and Aunt Kate (Mary Mc'Donnell - Battlestar Galactica).
Things start to go all iffy when people start dying. The blood comes thick and fast and there's something very familiar about what is happening...
After a quick chat with local film geeks and webcasters Charlie (Rory Culkin - The Zodiac) and Robbie (Erik Knudsen - Scott Pilgrim vs The World), Gale is hot on the case to track down Stabby Mc Stabberton.
In a nutshell, shit loads of people die as the old rules get thrown out the window along with some chick's dead corpse in act one. As the tag line says; new rules, new decade. With ten years since the last Scream film, they're in remake mode now, or 'shriek-make' and 'scream-quel' mode.
So much is going on in this film it's frikken awesome. Minds are being messed with from get go as we find out what happened with the Stab movie franchise. The opening scene is so very well done. The cast is huge with the likes of Anna Paquin (True Blood), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Alison Brie (Community), Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and heaps more.
Williamson's witty one-liners still cut like a knife. I love, again, how he explores the genre, dissects it and pokes fun at it.
There are plenty of bumps and jumps for any horror fan. You'll have tonnes of fun trying to work out who the killer is, only to have half of your suspects die off way before the closing credits and trust me, everyone is a suspect!
Fans, pay attention, there are lots of clever easter eggs all over the place to take you back down memory lane and give you a few chuckles.
Craven has done good. Would he dare do it again?
Things I learnt: it sucks being a cop in a movie (unless you're Bruce Willis); leave the wind chimes alone; never fuck with the original.
Bloody good.
Eight out of ten.