Scream 3 (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: funny out-takes, decent soundmix, good commentary
Disadvantages: feels rushed, some 'padding'extras

Scream was the film that got me interested in film and eventually film-making. Scream 2 I thought was a worthy sequel with a lot more gloss and in some ways was better at staging some very well orchestrated scares, the stalking on the soundstage is one example. Scream 3 is a decent conclusion to the trilogy but has a feeling that it's been rushed and things don't gel as much. You just get the feeling that it was done to please the fans and finish ... Read review

Advantages: Everything!!
Disadvantages: Nothing!!

...Kevin Williamson created the original Scream movie he single-handedly re-wrote the rules for creating a modern horror flick. Williamson included all the witty, post-modern, self-referential elements that made his TV series so refreshing and satirised the traditions of the teen slasher movie. It seems that every horror movie that is released today is expected to be a post-Scream irony-fest. But Scream wasn't a simple spoof. It was a shockingly ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Been done, neither horror nor comedy, poor acting, cliched.

Scream 3. The third part of a trilogy that was supposed to have re-surrected the horror genre. They should have stopped at two. This film is a dire excuse for a horror movie, with very little suspense and hardly any genuinely jump out of your skin moments. Scream and other teen slasher movies were all based upon the well trodden route that Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween started. Both of these movies had genuinely suspense filled moments, and ... Read review

Advantages: Very well thought out plot, great new star in Parker Posey.
Disadvantages: Not as scary as it should be, needed Kevin Williamson writing.

Scream was actually designed as a trilogy from day one by original writer Kevin Williamson. He had always envisaged the idea that the three films (if made) would link together from start to finish. So of course after the massive popularity of the first two, the third and final (?) installment seemed inevitable. With Wes Craven back at the helm, and Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette all returning to reprise their roles most of the Scream ... Read review

Advantages: another scream movie
Disadvantages: another scream movie

...out above the rest. The Scream series. Infact Scream probably started the whole horror movie re-birth in the 90's. When I bought the first Scream movie, I was only 15. This movie rocked my world; it grabbed me and shook me by the neck. I'm surprised it didn't get much recognition. When Scream 2 came out, I couldn't wait. I rented the movie first night it came out and sat in my front room, lights off, and totally caught in the moment. Another superb ... Read review

Advantages: Spooky
Disadvantages: ???

...anxious and excited to watch Scream 3. Firstly, being an avid fan, I really want to know what in the world happen to the lively group of people who are always stalked by psycho killers. After two/three human years, Scream 3 finally arrives. However, peoples' memory do not last long - especially for two years. We are brought back into Hollywood where the Sunrise Studios, the production company, of Stab 3. 'Stab 3' being the movie in a movie, is ... Read review

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: waste of time

Just like Scary Movie, Scream 3 is the “scary” movie that ends up being funny. Except in Scream 3, I don’t mean funny in the traditional funny sense, but funny as in “Ha ha, look at those idiots making fools of themselves!” Paging Mr. Plot Oh, I’m sorry, he must’ve been out of the building during the making of this movie. I know these days Hollywood scoffs upon the idea of a plot, but this movie is ... Read review

Advantages: Great killings and good plot
Disadvantages: Some ridiculous scenes and poor settings

...slowly showed dissapointing hopes. Although Scream 3 was better than Scream 2 it couldn't compare to the huge success of the first Scream. There were some ridiculous scenes in Scream 3 like the part where the killer got shot several times but survived them all and the scene where they were watching the video of Randy telling them about what could happen in the third part of the series when he was clearly killed in the previous Scream. Another ... Read review

Advantages: I say: ‘Parker Posey’.
Disadvantages: The ‘series’ was getting torrid anyway....not an appropriate way to end it though either.

How on earth did the ‘Scream' series get so popular? It wasn’t that funny. It wasn’t that clever. It wasn’t that big. It however was a little scary, so that counts. More importantly, it was there first (before the talentless no-marks of ‘Scary Movie’, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and other knock-offs such as ‘Urban Legends’). Set two years after ‘Scream 2’, we find ... Read review

Advantages: Tried and tested format
Disadvantages: Nothing new

Anyone that has watched the first two films MUST see this the latest addition to the great series. The film follows the tried and tested format for its genre, a copycat killer threatens the lives of those still alive from the first two films, and takes the lives of the actors that star in the film version of the events that took place in the first films. Who is the killer???? you'll have to watch the film to find out. If you've seen the previous ... Read review

Advantages: Easy viewing, don't have to think.
Disadvantages: Familiar storylines and characters.

I have seen all three "Screams" and have even got the first two on DVD, and will probably buy the third for prosterity. However, the trilogy did not live up to all that it promised, advertisements for the third film stated that it would be scarier and harder to believe than the first two. Hard to believe could be right, the plot twists were ridiculous. It must be said that the first "Scream" abounded in originality with parodies of previous horror ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Same thing

...film and this applies to Scream 2 and 3 alike! Please Wes, don't make a 4th! I love horrors and Scream was something different, it had twists and blew my mind and I looked forward to the sequel. It was just the same as the first - killer, that we dont know until the end, girl, that the kiler is after and get-in-the-ways, the people that get killed to make the film up. When Scream 3 came out I expected something different but it was just the same, ... Read review