As Collider looks back at beloved films, a first-time watcher and horror fan reviews Wes Craven's 'Scream 2'.
In 1996, Wes Craven revolutionized the horror genre with Scream, a metalinguistic slasher that explicitly discusses the genre’s trope while still delivering a thrilling murder mystery. One year later, Scream 2 got to theaters, and the idea of doing a sequel sounded odd, to say the least. Since Scream already dug deep into the tropes that make horror movies so predictable and recognizable, it was hard to imagine what else a sequel could say.
That’s what makes the Scream franchise endure the test of time. While metalinguistic is Craven’s favorite game, Scream 2, just like the first movie, builds up a mystery that leaves fans guessing until the end, even after it explains what clues we should be searching for. It would be so good if it leaned only on clever references and nods to filmmaking, things that can be fun in themselves but don’t sustain an entire movie.
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