Scream 3 (2000)
- written February 2000
|
Sidney Prescott thinks she is all safe in her mountain cabin where no one can find her, but alas that isn’t the case. The newest movie to be made is "Stab 3" and this time a killer has decided to start killing the actors off one by one. This of course, makes these thespians really value life and they run off to the actual people they are to play, for help. Gale is looking for the ultimate Pulitzer Prize winning story and her repeated breakups with Dewey haven’t helped. Meanwhile he is on the set as a technical consultant working with the actress who is to play Gale in "Stab 3." Making Gale jealous is the easy part but stopping her from finding out who is killing off the actors is much more difficult. It also seems that this killer has a thing for Maureen Prescott - Sid’s deceased mother - by leaving pictures of her from her younger years, at each crime scene. Now Sid must come out of hiding to help her friends save themselves and the actors playing them in the film. But remember what Randy said in part , "Everyone is a Suspect" and truly, you can’t trust anyone because Maureen has connections going back 30 years and not only does God know what she was doing back then, so does the killer.
Overall: Better than part 2 but still a little weak. The characters of Gale and Dewey have about twice as much screen time as Sid, and it really appears like she is just an extra in this film. The motive for the killer is easy to figure out, and as for the "who" that just as quickly becomes a small list, getting smaller as each character dies. The film is replete with Sid having fantasies and nightmares of her mother which never do get explained -- when you do find out who was messing with her in some instances it starts to make the killer truly look superhuman in how many places they can be at once. Finally, Sid gets her face bashed in pretty good towards the end and suffer few bruises -- you’d think with all the killer gets hit with over the course of the 90 minutes, they’d have even more bruises and broken bones -- but that is why horror films usually fail to mirror real life: they’re simply unrealistic. As for "who did it and why," there are no clues in parts 1 or 2 to hint towards this ending, which makes the idea that this was intended originally as a trilogy somewhat far-fetched for if that was the intent, they should have left more clues in the previous two films making this one sort of necessary. But hey, it was entertaining. Comparison: Dead Again meets The Haunting |
Links to other sites at The Sinning Room
Scream Review Page
Horror Films L-Z Review Page
Horror Films Review Page
