He's back with another sequel is our horror director/writer, Wes Craven.
The second film's prologue takes place at a cinema where Maureen (Jada Pinkett) and her boyfriend Phil have gone to see a film called Stab. It is based on the events of Sidney Prescott's life. When Phil goes to the toilet, he is killed (inexplicable somewhat) and the killer dons his clothes and murders Maureen.
At a college campus, Sidney tells Randy she is sure its starting again and she becomes more wary of her boyfriend, Derek.
Deputy Dewey returns to the campus to see Sid and warn her about the murderer - and she bumps into Gail and thwack you very much, gives her another punch for introducing her to the man she thought had murdered her mother, Cotton Weary, but it has already been established since the first movie that he is innocent.
Of course then the red herrings litter in but I won't go too much into those because it will spoil the first movie.
The murders here are not too grotesque though Randy's death is quite sick.
The acting is good here. It's better than the first film. There are some marvellous cameos from Sarah Michelle Gellar and Laurie Metcalf who played Jackie in Roseanne. Gale's cameraman is light relief and one breathes a sigh of relief when he survives the mayhem in the film.
Poor Dwight Riley has another hard time and its a lot worse than what happened in the first scream. All the action boils down to a climax in the college and Sidney once again having to be forced to accept some more heartache about her mother and the mistakes she made.
I must say that the trilogy is really good and it is basically Sidney running from the killer, even though she hasn't a clue as to why until the end and we then discover it all goes back to her mother. The thing that would've made this film and the subsequent more interesting is if the motive wasn't always centered around Sidney's mother. Although here it she isn't too central to the motive, she is part of the motive.
Overall, this is a good sequel and that's saying something since most sequels are not worthy. There's only a few that are and sequels happen to be a topic of discussion in an early sequence in the film. It's a very interesting scene indeed and Randy, of course, steals the limelight in whatever screen time he can get before his untimely demise in Gale's T.V. Van. Don't fret though. Jamie Kennedy makes a cameo in the next film. Seems a bit pointless killing off Randy because they could've brought him back again for the third. However, it is a good flick and one I'd recommend.
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Production Year: 1982 - Horror - Director: Tommy Lee Wallace - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy
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