It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, "The Woodsboro Murders," which has been turned into the film, "Stab," starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film's play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his "surrogate sister." But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!
Randy: Mickey, the freaky Tarantino film student. But if he's a suspect, so am I. Lets move on.
Dewey: Wait a minute. Maybe you are a suspect.
Randy: Well if I'm a suspect than you're a suspect.
Dewey: OK. Let's move on.
"The first one was [good], but all the rest sucked," said a cinematically-savvy teen in last winter's Wes Craven thriller "Scream," her statement referring to the films of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series but really putting down franchise overkill in general. The comment certainly carries clout: For every truly great sequel, there appears to be a couple of duds, making one wonder if writers are better off sticking solely with fresh ideas. But like it or not, along comes "Scream 2." And believe it or not, it's a doozy -- a slick, sinister, madly subversive good time at the movies, as intent on sending up Hollywood's sequel syndrome as much as its prequel poked fun at slasher conventions. "Scream 2" is definitely that rare movie thing -- a follow-up that can stand along side its original with pride.
