2000 Directed by Wes Craven
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
Neve Campbell Courteney Cox David Arquette Patrick Dempsey Parker Posey Scott Foley Emily Mortimer Deon Richmond Lance Henriksen Matt Keeslar Jenny McCarthy Liev Schreiber Kelly Rutherford Patrick Warburton Josh Pais Jamie Kennedy Heather Matarazzo Roger L. Jackson Roger Corman Kevin Smith Jason Mewes Carrie Fisher Richmond Arquette Julie Janney Lynn McRee Nancy O'Dell Lawrence Hecht John Embry Lisa Beach Show All…
Gene Serdena Bruce Alan Miller Sloane U'Ren Nancy Deren Robert W. Anderson Michael Glynn Anthony D. Parrillo George Capetanos Quinn Yarbrough Edward Tamayo Barbara Ann Spencer
Tim Chau G.W. Brown Albert Gasser John Kwiatkowski Todd Toon David Kern Piero Mura Andy D'Addario Donald J. Malouf
Scream 3 : Ghostface Killer, Ghostface Killer, 夺命狂呼3, Κραυγη Αγωνιας 3
"Hollywood is full of criminals whose careers are flourishing."
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
HARVEY WEINSTEIN
very fitting its called scream as that's exactly what I did when I saw gale weathers' bangs
so when sidney says "its your turn to scream, asshole!" ..........what is she referring to
sidney after ghostface attempts to murder her for the third time: i mean what the fuck, can i live? can i live? can i fucking live?
The film-shoot backdrop lets Craven go a little wild on the meta stuff to the point where a lot of it pivots into outright self parody, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it isn't properly balanced with simple scary movie mechanics, which twist themselves into knots trying to both maintain a mystery and shoehorn in backstory and returning characters. That said it does have a series high-point sequence, Sid being chased through the set of her childhood home, deliberately drawing attention to artifice to deliver an almost BEING JOHN MALKOVICH-y tour through memory and trauma that might be an emotional peak for the franchise. Certainly not running on fumes but a little low on gas for sure. The always glorious Parker Posey absolutely walks off with it while nobody else is looking.
queen carrie fisher, my space mum, i nearly cried when i saw her in this omg my heart
“Hollywood is full of criminals whose careers are flourishing.”
Wes Craven’s poison pen letter to Hollywood. Very underrated, maybe because it abandons the more grounded surface of the early moves for full on DePalmian artifice. It’s a rather mean spirited horror comedy predicted in as many doubling variations as Craven can find. And it has the best casting in the series from Parker Posey/Courtney Cox double team to Dempsey as hunk Hollywood detective. And it comes full circle to Craven’s New Nightmare and probably even more angry than that movie.
These movies literally write themselves, and for this one that's a crutch. The story is structured to be constantly catching up to itself, playing its self-awareness as a plot device more than an elevating factor to an otherwise fun movie regardless, and it's massively underwhelming. Has a very revealing commentary on Hollywood and their treatment of women, but it's structurally stale. Craven already perfected this whole thing with New Nightmare and the first Scream, and at this point it feels like he's just parodying himself. It's easy to just write this off as a lame retread and move on, but there's a particularly joyless irony to a film that revived the slasher sub-genre spawning uninspired sequels chasing after that initial success. Still, I had too much fun for the most part to actually hate it.
