2025 October Horror Challenge #41: "Scream 3"

remember when I said that sequels to movies have a tendency to be bigger and throw more crap at you at the screen and tend to be louder and more obnoxious and everything's bigger There's more kills There's more twisted backstory there's more bad acting There's more explosions? Well I'm sure some of you were thinking There's no explosions in the Scream movies. I said before you this day scream three where a house just blew up because they put an explosion in the movie because they wanted to make it bigger and that's what they did. This movie tries to go back to the past and rewrite history that was done so well in the first one and they just fail miserably and I it makes me sad The only thing that I like about this movie is watching Courtney Cox and David arquette hug each other because I know that they fell in love doing these movies and that makes me happy cuz I think it's sweet. Everything else about this movie irritates me There's too many characters there's too much of a twisted backstory only certain people should be allowed to write plots this twisty. Harlan colbin is allowed to write plots this twisty because he is proven time and again that he can handle juggling this many twists without sounding like he's pulling things out of his butt You on the other hand writers of Scream 3 are not allowed to handle this many plot twists because you do not possess the skills to make it seem like you are not pulling everything out of your butt and throwing it at the screen and hoping that some of it sticks It's insulting. So I just don't vibe with this movie the way I did with the original. And I know this because I watched this movie along with Scream 2 Back when I was a freshman in college and I watched them and gave them a chance because I had loved the original scream and I wanted to see what the sequels did with the story and how they added to the story. And it was a fun night I got to hang out with friends and we ordered pizza and we watched movies and we watched Scream 2 and Scream 3 and the movie sucked but it was fun hanging out with my friends So the movie is remind me of good times but they really get under my skin and piss me off when I try to watch them now because I know so much about horror movies and I know that they could have been good Not all sequels are bad I have seen some good sequels. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D is what the 7th Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie or the 6th and it's good I like it better than all of the other sequels reimaginings and remakes by far by several orders of magnitude the sequel to Candyman Candyman 2 farewell to the flesh isn't as good as the original but it is good it's worth watching it's worth buying and owning. These movies aren't worth buying and owning They're worth staring at with anger and derision and your face because they're just going to take everything that worked in the first movie and shit all over it. That's really all I have to say about Scream 3 at one point I think that I did enjoy it better than Scream 2 I told everyone that scream too was my least favorite but the more I watch them the more Scream 3 irritates me and the more I appreciate Scream 2 because while it is not a good movie for a lot of reasons it's not as insulting to my intelligence as the third movie. Do yourself a favor and skip this one. EDIT: okay, I admit it, I was a jerk when I wrote this review. Once most of the cast is dead and all the secrets start coming out finally for real the movie doesn't get as bad as it was it gets better and I understand why I did like it the first time that I saw it I always forget that it gets better after the first half of the movie So I would say that Scream wanted two and three are worth watching if nothing else so that you can have a basis of knowledge for scream for when scream for comes along because Scream 4 is a movie that I actually enjoy and I like the story and I would want to know the story from the three original films before watching Scream for so I would know what everyone was talking about in that movie Scream 4 is a movie that I actually enjoy and I like the story and I would want to know the story from the three original films before watching Scream for so I would know what everyone was talking about in that movie So give it a chance It's not as bad as I said it was It's not as bad as the critics said it was It's just a little ridiculous in the beginning and for the first maybe hour of the movie after that it gets better. give it a chance if you want There are some good scenes that come near the end and if nothing else seeing Sydney get chased through the house by a killer is fun for me at least as a fan of slasher movies so I like watching stock and slash movies like this and I appreciate what this movie has to give me and what it gives to the horror genre as a whole even though it gives a huge pile of crap There's gold buried in the crap if you want to dig and I generally want to date because that's what I do in October I watch a lot of horror movies and I dig for gold and sometimes I find it.