Product Description

The Ultimate Scream Collection includes SCREAM: After a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes a place where no one is safe . . . and everyone is suspect! SCREAM 2: Away at college, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell -- SCREAM, 54) thought she'd finally put the shocking murders that shattered her life behind her . . . until a copycat killer begins acting out a real-life sequel! SCREAM 3: While Sidney Prescott (Campbell) lives in safely guarded seclusion, bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the latest movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10178 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-09-26
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 348 minutes

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When Randy the video geek rattles off the rules of surviving a horror movie in Wes Craven's Scream, he speaks for a generation of filmgoers who are all too aware of slasher movie clichés. Playfully scripted by Kevin Williamson with a self-aware wink and more than a few nods to its grandfathers (from Psycho to Halloween to the Friday the 13th dynasty), Scream skewers teen horror conventions with loving reverence while re-creating them in a modern, movie-savvy context. And so goes the series, which continues the satirical spoofing by tackling (what else?) sequels while sustaining its own self-contained mythology. Catty reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) turns grisly murders into lurid bestsellers, a cult of killer wannabes continues to hunt spunky psycho-survivor Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) for their 15 minutes of fame, and a cheesy movie series (Stab) develops within the movie series.

Scream remains the high point of the series--a fresh take on a genre long since collapsed into routine, but Scream 2 spoofs itself with witty humor ("Why would anyone want to do that? Sequels suck!" opines college film student Randy), and delights with more elaborate set pieces and all-new rules for surviving a horror movie sequel. The endangered veterans of the original film reunite one last time for Scream 3, which plays out on the movie set of Stab 3. (It's a trilogy within a trilogy!) With Williamson gone, replacement screenwriter Ehran Kruger tries to mine the formula one more time. It's a little tired by now, and pale imitations (Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer) have further drained the zeitgeist, but the film bubbles with bright humor, and director Craven is stylistically at the top of his game. As a trilogy, it remains both the most consistently entertaining and self-aware horror series ever made. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

The grand conclusion.
I liked part one the best, part two was kind of so so.
But I loved the conclusion.
The main character has been driven into isolation, the entire cast seems to have moved on with their lives the best they can considering everything that happened.
Until an new killer shows up and drags everyone back into it again.
The acting was good, the direction was good as was the story.
It was cool to see Randy's videotape.
The entire thing wraps up in a very innovative way.
I hope they don't do a fourth one.
Three was enough and I think the Scream trilogy will withstand the test of time.........maybe.
Still, I recommend the entire trilogy.
It puts some new and interesting spins on the tired old horror genre.

A good finish but lacking.
I always did enjoy the Scream series. For it's plot twisted story telling and surprises. Plus the lack of a super human killer that keeps coming back. Jason anyone? The Scream Trilogy was all about revenge and suspense. Scream 3 succeeds in it's suspense and shock factor. But it's still just run o' the mill with an already used plot.

Now ignoring the fact this is seen that before. Somethings were done right. Such as being a bit more innovative with the killer. But what I didn't like was the "trilogy factor" not being carried out to its full potential. When they played the video to learn what they were dealing with. That one scene had the most impact to me. Too bad it was only introduced.

Scream 3 to me was wasted potential to a certain degree. It had the one element to set itself apart from the first two and failed to deliver. Still, it was a good addition and finish to the series. Although not scary buy any stretch. It is still good entertainment.

Good Ending Chapter but Could've Been Better
Okay. The Scream Trilogy comprise my favorite movies of all time, or at least three of my favorites of all time. Scream 1 was in my mind an instant classic because it basically reinvents the horror genre by openly ridiculing all the rules of said genre but playing with the viewer's mind such that the viewer doesn't know what's up or down. This especially applies to the end. I don't mean to give it away, but I don't think anybody would expect more than one killer. In Scream 2, my favorite character gets killed off, which I am not happy about, and I think I agree with the thoughts of the ending being a little drawn-out and implausible. Other than that, it's not only good horror but also good main-character development if you ask me.

And then we come to Scream 3. And Parker Posey. What the hell were they thinking? Parker Posey is in my opinion an atrocious actor in this movie; she's not convincing at all, and yet she's given such a major role! I tell myself that maybe this movie was more meant to be comic relief than the final chapter in a trilogy, and that helps a little. There's another character in this particular movie that tries to be smart but is stupid, and that kinda supports my "it's a comic-relief movie" idea.
All that said, there are some very clever parts to this movie as well. The ending is an awesome surprise because much in the manner of Scream 1 and 2, Scream 3 turns what you thought you know about the killer/killers on its head. Also, even though my favorite character was killed off in Scream 2, they found a perfectly plausible way to get him/ her into Scream 3. And call me morbid if you must, but I LOVE what happens to Parker Posey's character at the end. Also, unlike many other horror movies I've seen, at the end of this one, you really do get the sense that it's over, that there's no more--that the characters that remain can finally live in peace and get on with their lives.

So, overall, I like this movie. I'm afraid Parker Posey's acting/ role negates any ability to rate it above 3 stars (although I could go as high as 3.5 stars if given the option), but it's worth watching if you've never seen it and have seen the first 2.