Scream 2

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Scream 2
Scream 2 film poster
Directed by	Wes Craven
Produced by	Cathy Konrad Wes Craven Marianne Maddalena
Written by	Kevin Williamson
Starring	David Arquette Neve Campbell Courteney Cox Sarah Michelle Gellar Jamie Kennedy Jerry O'Connell Jada Pinkett Liev Schreiber
Distributed by	Dimension Films
Release date(s)	December 12, 1997
Language	English
Budget	$24,000,000
Gross revenue	$172,363,301[1]
Preceded by	Scream
Followed by	Scream 3

Scream 2 is a 1997 horror thriller film, the second part of the Scream trilogy. This movie takes place one year after the original. As with the other films in the trilogy, Scream 2 combines straight-forward scares with dialogue that satirizes conventions of slasher films, especially (in this case) slasher film sequels.

Plot

Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks attend Windsor College in Ohio. While attending the preview of Stab, based on a book by Gale Weathers about the Woodsboro murders, Phil Stevens is stabbed through the wall of a bathroom cubicle. The killer sits next to Maureen Evans, and she assumes the killer is her boyfriend wearing a mask. During the Casey Becker death scene the crowd goes wild. Taking advantage of this, the killer stabs Maureen. Since many of the movie-goers are wearing the killer's costume (as publicity material provided by the movie studio) and carrying fake knives, nobody takes Maureen's attack seriously. As the crowd realizes she's not faking, she dies. Sidney and Randy realize that a killer is on the loose again. Meanwhile Dewey arrives on the campus to protect Sidney.

The killer attempts to stab Sidney while setting up a copycat ploy. Alone in her sorority house, Casey "Cici" Cooper is threatened over the phone before the killer attacks her. After the police discover the body, the students at the nearby martini mixer go to investigate, leaving Sidney and her boyfriend Derek at the Delta Lambda Zeta house. The killer attacks Sidney, but Derek helps her escape.

At the police station, Gale and Dewey notice that the names of the victims loosely match the victims from Woodsboro. The police chief assigns two detectives to protect Sidney. The group is outside amongst dozens of college students when the killer telephones and taunts them. Gale and Dewey search the students in the area who have cell phones, trying to discover the killer. Randy is also looking around while talking to the killer on the phone, hoping to stall them. While he is outside a van, Randy is pulled inside and killed. His body is discovered by Gale and Dewey. The detectives protecting Sidney are attacked while their vehicle is stopped at a traffic light. The killer crashes the car, killing the detective and knocking the killer unconscious. Gale and Dewey approach the killer, resulting in Dewey being stabbed. Sidney and Hallie, her roommate, narrowly escape the wreckage of the car by squeezing past the unconscious killer in the front seat. Sidney decides to remove the killer's mask, but finds the killer gone. She turns around only to see Hallie being stabbed.

Sidney runs to the school theater and is confronted by the killer. The killer reveals himself to be Mickey, her new boyfriend's best friend. Sidney finds Derek tied to a stage prop, and Mickey shoots Derek in the chest. Mickey also has a partner: Sidney turns around to see Gale coming out of the stage door, leading her to believe that Gale is the killer. Gale shakes her head "no" and Debbie Salt comes out, holding the other cop's gun. Sidney recognizes her as Mrs. Loomis, the mother of Sidney's previous boyfriend Billy. Mickey reveals that it was his plan to be caught for the murders so that he would become famous, immortalized by the media. He wanted to blame the killings on horror movies; the "effects of cinema violence in society." He met Mrs. Loomis on a "psycho website" and she agreed to fund his college tuition in return for his part in the killings. She also helped Mickey place calls to the victims. Mrs. Loomis' motive for killing Sidney and her friends was revenge for Sidney killing her son. Sidney points out that if Mrs. Loomis had not abandoned Billy then he and Stu Macher would not have started their killing spree. Mrs. Loomis shoots Mickey, removing him as a potential threat and stating that his legal defense was absurd.

As Mickey is shot he shoots Gale, causing her to fall off the stage. Sidney is cornered by Mrs. Loomis and tricks her into believing Mickey is alive; when Mrs. Loomis is distracted, Sidney hits her with a prop jar. Sidney barricades herself backstage and causes the front of the stage to collapse on Mrs. Loomis. Mrs. Loomis survives and gets Sidney in an armlock, but then Cotton, the man Sidney had blamed for killing her mother arrives and takes Mickey's gun. Mrs. Loomis tries to convince Cotton to let her kill Sidney, but Cotton shoots Mrs. Loomis. Sidney and Cotton discover that Gale is wounded but alive, and help her. Mickey jumps up, and Gale and Sidney shoot him. Sidney turns around and shoots Mrs. Loomis in the head — "just in case". It is revealed that Dewey survived his stabbing. He and Gale take an ambulance to the hospital. It turns out that Dewey's scar tissue from previously being stabbed in the back prevented this stabbing from being fatal. At the hospital, the news team arrives and tries to get a story on Sidney. Despite Sidney being the heroine, she tells them Cotton is the man to interview. The news team goes to him, after Cotton tells them there is a "time a place and a price" for an interview, he says, "it'll make one hell of a movie." Sidney walks off the campus, having survived the murders.

Cast

• David Arquette as Dwight "Dewey" Riley
• Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott
• Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers
• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Casey "Cici" Cooper
• Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks
• Laurie Metcalf as Debbie Salt/Mrs. Loomis
• Elise Neal as Hallie
• Jerry O'Connell as Derek
• Timothy Olyphant as Mickey
• Jada Pinkett as Maureen Evans
• Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary
• Lewis Arquette as Chief Hartley
• Duane Martin as Joel
• Rebecca Gayheart as Sorority Sister Lois
• Portia de Rossi as Sorority Sister Murphy
• Omar Epps as Phil Steves
• Roger L. Jackson as Ghostface (voice)
• Chris Doyle as Officer Richards
• Philip Pavel as Officer Andrews
• Nancy O'Dell as Reporter

Reception

Like the first film, Scream 2 received mostly positive critical reception. It has achieved 79% of certified freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, with many critics agreeing that it was funnier and scarier than the first. Roger Ebert noted the film as being "about as good as the original". Gene Siskel also gave it a 'thumbs up', despite giving a negative review of the first film.

Soundtrack

Scream 2: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture
Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released	November 18, 1997
Label	Festival Mushroom Records; Warner Bros. Records; Warner Bros. Music Entertainment
Professional reviews
Allmusic link
Various Artists chronology
Scream: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture (1996) Scream 2: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture (1997) Scream 3 (2000)

Track listing

1. "Scream" - Master P, Silkk The Shocker 3:30
2. "Suburban Life" - Kottonmouth Kings 3:34
3. "Rivers" - Sugar Ray 2:50
4. "She's Always in My Hair" - D'Angelo 6:19
5. "Help Myself" - Dave Matthews Band 4:31
6. "She Said" - Collective Soul 4:51
7. "Right Place, Wrong Time" - Jon Spencer 3:16
8. "Dear Lover" - Foo Fighters 4:33
9. "Eyes of Sand" - Tonic 4:16
10. "The Swing" - Everclear 2:59
11. "I Think I Love You" - Less Than Jake 2:03
12. "Your Lucky Day in Hell" - Eels 4:26
13. "Red Right Hand" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, DJ Spooky 8:23
14. "One More Chance" - Kelly 4:13
15. "The Race" - Ear2000 2:19

Marco Beltrami returned to score Scream 2. While using similar themes as in the first film, many scenes featuring Dewey were scored with excerpts from Hans Zimmer's Broken Arrow score. The stage performance's "Cassandra Aria" was written by Danny Elfman.

External links

• Scream 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Scream 2 at Allmovie
• Scream 2 at Box Office Mojo

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