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Anna and the KingThree KingsGirl InterruptedBowfingerTwo HandsThe InsiderElectionThe Debt CollectorMystery AlaskaAmerican BeautyThe Talented Mr RipleyCrazy in AlabamaThe HurricaneThe BeachThe End Of The AffairSleepy HollowHouse on haunted hillThe Cider House RulesThe Green MileScream 3Mission to MarsGalaxy QuestStuart LittleThe Iron Giant|
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| Scream 3 |
| Starring Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, David Arquette |
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| "You are not in a sequel but a conclusion of a trilogy," says the movie geek guy on a videotape he made before becoming part of Scream 2's bodycount for the survivors in part three. "The past is about to bite you in the ass." Yes, Wes Craven's successful hall-of-mirrors horror spoof has come to a predictably hysterical conclusion. But though the first two instalments were frightening fun for lampooning the teen-slasher flick while still offering "behind-you!" thrills, this feels like another tired horror sequel, conclusion of a trilogy or not. Sure, it has some clever-clever amusements, like Parker Posey playing B-grade actress Jennifer Jolie, whose role in movie-within-a-movie Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro is a character based on Gail Weathers, the telly news reporter played by Courteney Cox in the first two films. It's a pairing that makes for quite some amusements, especially for the spooky match of acting inability. The action has shifted from Woodsboro to Hollywood where the latest masked knife-wielding maniac is taking out the cast of Stab 3 in the order their characters died in Scream 2. That reunites the trio of Weathers, Deputy Dewey (Arquette) and Sidney (Campbell). Weathers comes out of hiding to face her worst nightmare - and tell us when we should be frightened - one more time. It's funny enough at times, with both the one-liners and the in-jokes. The director of Stab 3, whose Hollywood hills residence is turned into a bloodbath, is named Roman, which might be a sick chuckle at the Manson murders. But the trouble is that while the earlier instalments had a whole genre for raw material, this one feels like a backslapping tribute to the first two Screams and its participants, that hall of mirrors having finally cracked under the strain. No, if he'd had a choice, you can't help but think that the movie geek guy wouldn't have been seen dead in this one. |
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