Wes Craven's final installment of his highly-successful SCREAM trilogy concludes with a fun, fast, and furious romp that cuts through B-movie cliches as readily as it does the warm flesh of its hip young cast. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and friends Gale Weathers and Dwight "Dewey" Riley (Courteney Cox and David Arquette) once again find themselves face to face with a masked psychopath, who's making deadly edits to the cast of STAB 3, the schlocky slasher film based upon Sidney's own "real-life" horrors. Fueled by Ehren Kruger's (ARLINGTON ROAD) snappy script, the third chapter packs a punch with a plenty of turn-on-a-dime plot twists and a high laugh-to-shriek ratio.
Desperate to escape the demons of her past, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) discretely cocoons herself in a remote, high-security ranch house in the woods of Northern California, where she works as a phone counselor for a crisis hotline. She's content to remain in quiet seclusion, but finds herself once again facing mortal danger when the masked killer Ghostface (named for the Munch-inspired costume) begins cutting into the cast of STAB 3--the schlocky series of slasher films based upon the Woodsboro and Windsor College murders. One by one STAB 3's stars meet grisly deaths at the hands of the psychopath, who--armed with a cell phone, a copy of the film's screenplay, and an arsenal of B-movie cliches--gleefully hunts down and eviscerates his victims. The killer's modus operandi adheres to the "rules" of engagement codified by the great film trilogies STAR WARS and THE GODFATHER, which dictate that in the third chapter, anything goes. Now Sidney must return to "Woodsboro"--recreated as the set of STAB 3--and team-up with cut-throat reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), small-town deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley (David Arquette), Hollywood detective Marc Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey), and the remaining cast of STAB 3 in order to stop the killer before he makes his final cut.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Collectors Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Ending
Music Video: Creed - WHAT IF?
Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes/Outtakes
Behind the Scenes: From all 3 SCREAM Movies
Featurette: Making of all 3 SCREAM movies
Trailers:
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. TV Spots/Previews
3. International Theatrical Trailer
Audio Commentary:
1. Wes Craven - Director
2. Marianne Maddelena - Producer
3. Patrick Lussier - Editor
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Trivia Game
Text/Photo Galleries:
Biographies: Cast & Crew
Stills/Photos: Photo Montage of all three Scream movies
Stars
Neve Campbell: Actress, PARTY OF FIVE, SCREAM
David Arquette: Actor, SCREAM/EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS
Courteney Cox: American TV/Film Actress
Patrick Dempsey: American actor, GREY'S ANATOMY
Parker Posey: Actress
Scott Foley: Star
Lance Henriksen: American character actor, Bishop of ALIEN series/Millennium
Matt Keeslar: Actor, SAFE PASSAGE
Jenny McCarthy: Star, PLAYBOY COLLECTOR'S SET - WET & WILD BOX SET (2003)
Emily Mortimer: Actress
Deon Richmond: Actor, TRIPPIN'
Patrick Warburton: Actor
Liev Schreiber: American actor, SCREAM series/LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Kelly Rutherford: American actress, GOSSIP GIRL,
Director
Wes Craven: Horror Writer/Director
Producer
Cathy Konrad: Producer
Marianne Maddalena: Producer
Kevin Williamson: Hipster scribe: "Scream," "I Know What You Did This Summer"
Screenwriter
Ehren Kruger: Screenwriter
Laeta Kalogridis: Screenwriter
Composer
Marco Beltrami: Composer
Cameo
Carrie Fisher: American actress, STAR WARS, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
Cameo
Jason Mewes: American actor, CLERKS
Cameo
Kevin Smith: Writer/Director, CLERKS, DOGMA
Cameo
Roger Corman: Film Producer/Director, THE RAVEN (1963)
Director of Photography
Peter Deming: American Director Of Photography
Story
Kevin Williamson: Hipster scribe: "Scream," "I Know What You Did This Summer"
Production Designer
Bruce Miller: Art Director, Production Designer, began in mid '80s
Review 1:
"...SCREAM 3 is a crafty and well-crafted wrap-up..."
Source: Variety
p.48-9
Review 2:
"...The Hollywood setting allows for a pleasant succession of in-references and gags..."
Source: USA Today
p.59-60 05/01/2000
Review 3:
"...The film is funny and brisk....Parker Posey in particular glows as Jennifer..."
Source: New York Times
p.E14 02/04/2000