While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.
David Arquette
Dewey Riley
Neve Campbell
Sidney Prescott
Courteney Cox
Gale Weathers
Patrick Dempsey
Mark Kincaid
Scott Foley
Roman Bridger
Lance Henriksen
John Milton
Matt Keeslar
Tom Prinze
Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg
Sarah Darling
Emily Mortimer
Angelina Tyler
Parker Posey
Jennifer Jolie
Deon Richmond
Tyson Fox
Kelly Rutherford
Christine Hamilton
Liev Schreiber
Cotton Weary
Patrick Warburton
Steven Stone
Jamie Kennedy
Randy Meeks
Roger L. Jackson
Ghostface (voice)
Julie Janney
Moderator
Richmond Arquette
Student
Nancy O'Dell
Female Reporter
Ken Taylor
Male Reporter
Lynn McRee
Maureen Prescott
Roger Corman
Studio Executive
Josh Pais
Wallace
John Embry
Stage Security Guard
Lawrence Hecht
Neil Prescott
Lisa Beach
Studio Tour Guide
Kevin Smith
Silent Bob
Jason Mewes
Jay
Erik Erath
Stan
Daniel K. Arredondo
Office Security Guard
Lisa Gordon
Waitress
Heather Matarazzo
Martha Meeks
Carrie Fisher
Bianca Burnette
C.W. Morgan
Hank Loomis
Beth Toussaint
Female Caller (voice)
Wes Craven
Man with Video Camera on Studio Tour (uncredited)
Strawberry Fields
Tourist (uncredited)
Director
Wes Craven
Characters
Kevin Williamson
Screenplay
Ehren Kruger
July 19, 2015
7
Oh the irony of it all...
After surviving the second wave of ghostface killings, Sidney Prescott has retired to the mountains to live in peace and work as a phone call therapist. Sadly for her she is about to be dragged back into the nightmare because the production of Stab 3 is rocked by murder and the killer is leaving pictures of Sidney's dead mother at the crime scenes.
I have to admit that I once never gave this film much love, I loved the first two to such a degree that I felt this third and final instalment was way off being a fitting closure to what was at the time a trilogy. Yet as time has wore on I have really grown fond of the film, Parker Posey no longer annoys the hell out of me, the once jarring itch of watching the makers kill off a fave character of mine in the opening sequence is something I now view as a masterstroke, and the twisty ending that was once an irksome pest has moved on to be the perfect "trilogy" closure.
Scream 3 has its tongue firmly in its cheek, it's aware of its number and it's aware of its formulaic root, so in spite of treading familiar ground (I mean come on gang, have you not learnt nothing from your previous experiences), the returning characters still have our undivided attention. While the transporting of the story to Hollywood, with its movie within a movie structure, is fresh and adds a new dimension to proceedings. New additions to the scary fun are Patrick Dempsey, Emily Mortimer, Lance Henriksen and the afore mentioned Parker Posey, and all of them add greatly to the mysterious plot unfolding.
The death quotient is still high, and the Wes Craven school of whodunitry is well and truly open, and I personally feel that this one is easily the funniest film of the three, witness Jay & Silent Bob turning up, a Carrie Fisher sequence that once heard will never be forgotten, and a video appearance by passed on geek god Randy Meeks. Scream 3 closes the "trilogy" just fine, it's got bags of energy and a glint in its eye, now if only I could get a copy of the uncompleted Stab 3 off the internet - and if only there wasn't to be a part 4 further down the line... 7/10
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$40,000,000.00
Revenue:
$161,834,276.00