I didn't find it scary or very interesting. The acting was forced. The characters acted like they knew they were going to die at the exact moment the killer was showing up and they usually did nothing to defend themselves.

Scream 2 remains the more solid sequel. While I enjoyed the movie I believe that the new main killer was not realistic and their choice of the actor that performed said character was not bold.

In Scream 3,Ghostface yet striked in Hollywood..it was good..yeah,it was'int bad but it was OK. Scream 4 then came about 11 years later with all our original cast members back and Rodger Jackson back as Ghostface. Scream 4 takes place years after Scream 3 and follows Sidney who returns home to Woodsboro from Hollywood for a book signing and soon enough..Ghostface comes back!! AHH! Scream 4 is a dream,when you think about scream 3 and the next one,your like,oh no! Why did'int they stop at 2,but I think Wes Craven learned from his 'crazy' mistakes and made this masterpiece. Scream 4 is good because it has all the craziness from one and two back in to the story and Sidney,Gale and Dewey and some geeky teens,not some fictional greedy celebrity's cause lets face it,all the new characters in scream 3,were a**holes. Scream 4 is an awesome film that I recommend. Oh well! That's the Scream series gone and I AM NOT watching that god awful TV series 'supposidly' based on it!!

Scream was a series of progressively ridiculous meta-horror movies that thought they were being clever by pointing out the most surface- level, obvious horror-movie tropes and by following them exactly ironically turned out more and more dull and tiring with each sequel. Granted the first one though did a much better job than Wes Craven's previous attempt new nightmare, did reinvigorate the snoozing horror genre and inspired other horror comedies. It's a bit too on the nose for my taste but it's still watchable and an interesting relic of its time.Enter Scream 4 or SCRE4M as it is spelled in the title (oh lord...), basically a soft reboot of the original with the surviving cast members reunited once more. It's got everything you know from the other scream movies: a barrage of fake scares, jump scares, false leads, the invincible slasher bad guy who keeps disappearing at convenient moments, ineffective protagonists, a constant drone of witty meta commentary and amid senseless violence inflicted upon disposable stock characters there's of course the BS double-cross twist ending (which I won't give away) where the bad guy explains everything like a classic Bond villain. I think I loved it. Every tired trope mentioned above and fittingly done to death in the other scream movies is back but turned up to 11 in such a way that the whole movie crosses over from ineptly bad to absolutely hilarious, especially with some of the performances that came straight out of a Zucker brothers movie. I don't think Wes Craven was aware that he was creating total schlock - with all the less than subtle commentary about the modern "torture porn" era of horror movies I must assume this was an honest attempt to show them young ones how it's done. Instead we got a great Scary Movie sequel, an accidental masterpiece and a fitting swan song to a ridiculous series and a very creative director who will be missed.