2025 October Horror Challenge #40 "Scream 2"

So, the self-aware horror movie that has balls to say what we're all thinking, that most of the time sequels suck, now has a sequel. interesting. I think we all know that as a general rule sequels are not as good as the original movies. That's just the way things are. With a few noted exceptions, sequels have a tendency to be louder bigger and more explosive than the original, but that does not translate into being better they take what worked in the first movie and try to cram more and more and more of it down our throats until we get sick of it and throw up and that is not a good formula for creating a good movie. So I see scream to doing that from the beginning of the movie. though the opening scene in the theater works, it's not as effective for me at least as the opening sequence of the original film because the opening sequence of the original film was really creepy whereas the opening so we can coins of this film was exactly what I like to say about pretty much every other sequel second verse same as the first but a little bit louder and a little bit worse. That's what happens, and it sucks that everything that made the first movie special has a tendency to get trampled in the second movie. So here comes Scream 2, and it is a lot louder a lot bigger and yeah it is a lot worse than the original screen. I just don't like Scream 2 I try to appreciate it for what it is and there are moments that I appreciate Like I love watching Sarah Michelle gellar on screen in any role that she plays she's great and I like watching her get stalked by the killer and watching her fight back and seeing what happens No I'm not going to tell you what happens because I don't spoil movies in my reviews but it just seems like everything in this movie is too much It the music's too loud there's too many fights there's too many kills and I never thought I would say that I watched a movie called Dead alive where a bunch of zombies get killed with a lawn mower and that's probably about as many people killed in that one scene as there are in the entire movie scream too and that is a lot of deaths and it's not too many for that screen so I don't know why the deaths in this movie would be too many but it just seems like the movie tries to throw everything at us hoping that something will stick and it would do better for itself just to sit back for a minute and give us time to breathe. One thing I noticed about this movie that never really struck me before the way it strikes me now is how Jada pinkett Smith's character in the beginning of the movie talks about how horror movies are disproportionately white They don't have a lot of women of color in them and that's something that I noticed of course being horror movie fan that I am but it's not something that really bothered me until about 10 years ago when it just started to be too much because I know that black people tell scary stories too. They do I've heard them most of the ghost stories that I learned were from black and brown people So I know that they have scary stories too Why don't they ever appear in horror movies? typically my answer is that they're smarter than the white people and they leave 5 minutes into the movie because they're far more intelligent than able to see that something evil is going on and that answer does carry some weight but it's not a good enough answer for why there are so many white people in these movies It's not fair to joke and brush off a question like that without giving it some thought and analysis so I started to analyze it and think a little more deeply about it and I'm glad now that we have a resurgence of speculative fiction and horror and dark fantasy stories written by authors of color and I'm glad that we have movies with diverse casts now in horror movies more than we did before at least It's not like hey look this movie has one black guy in it the way it used to be back in the '80s and the '90s so things are getting better I guess It's just a slow process Time marches on and it will continue to take time. I'm hoping that as far as the Scream movie is go I enjoy watching the rest of the sequels better than I enjoy watching the second one because I'm drowning watching the second one wishing that it was over with so I could watch the third and get it over with because if I remember correctly I didn't like the third one either So we'll just have to see what happens but as far as horror movie sequels go Scream 2 Mrs out on a lot of the suspense of the original by being too much. It's the annoying little kid that tries to get attention by banging pots and pans and pushing things off shelves and throwing books until the parents explode and scream because any attention is better than no attention if you know what I mean? And I just don't vibe with this movie the way I do with the original so I don't like it but I will watch it I make sacrifices for Halloween horror month.