1997 · horror · slasher · thriller
Scream 2
Directed by Wes Craven2h 0m1997
Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Our read: Scream 2 (1997) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded horror · slasher · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / slasher, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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How Scream 2 feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want meta slasher sequels that wink while the body count climbs.”
Skip it tonight — Campus stalking and stabbings will keep you checking the locks.
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