Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 02/04/2000(USA)
Release Date: 07/04/2000
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 117 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Dimension
Wes Craven's
Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that
Craven and screenwriter
Kevin Williamson produced a third installment of their
Scream franchise. Sidney Prescott (
Neve Campbell), traumatized by the brutal murders of her friends, has left her hometown of Woodsboro and is working in California as a crisis intervention counselor. Meanwhile, "Stab," the novel by Gale Weathers (
Courtney Cox Arquette), is spawning a series of successful horror films, and as
Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro is being filmed in Los Angeles, a lunatic has gotten his hands on a copy of the script, and is murdering the characters in the same order that they die in the movie. But predicting who will die next is not as simple as it might seem, since the producers have circulated three different screenplays, with different endings. In addition to
Campbell and
Cox-Arquette,
David Arquette returns from the first two films as less-than-bright "Dewey" Riley; new members of the cast include
Parker Posey,
Patrick Dempsey,
Scott Foley, and
Jenny McCarthy.
Kevin Williamson wrote the original story, but the screenplay was penned by
Ehren Kruger.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
