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Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. It is a sequel to Scream. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett, and Liev Schreiber. The film was released on December 12, 1997, almost a year after the first film's release.

Plot
One year after the events of the first film, Sidney is in college and once again finds herself the target of a psychotic killer. However, this time, the killer's murder count is higher and the killings more outrageous.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It's one of a few slasher films that managed to have a fantastic film than it's predecessor.
 * 2) Once again, the actors such as David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and Sarah Michelle Gellar still gave wonderful performances of Dewey Riley, Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, Cici Cooper, etc..
 * 3) Ghostface is back once again to terrorize and murder more civilians in the town of Woodsboro, and he is still a funny-scary villain at the same time.
 * 4) The movie has some good references from the previous horror movies, or non-horror films, such as a scene at the beginning of the movie where the movie theatre was playing a fictional movie called Stab at the beginning of the movie where Casey Becker portrayer gets naked and turns on the shower, which is in reference to Janet Leigh's shower scene in Psycho (1960).
 * 5) It still retains the charm, and charisma from the first movie, and it did pretty well.
 * 6) Amazing cinematography.
 * 7) There are some funny moments from here and there around the film.
 * 8) The opening scene is absolutely terrifying to start the movie, Phil uses the restroom and is killed by Ghostface, and he fatally stabs Maureen at the movie theatre.
 * 9) Wonderful soundtrack that were both performed by Danny Elfman, and Hans Zimmer.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Although it's still a great sequel to the first film it is considered not as good as the first film.
 * 2) There are some product placements around the movie.

Crticial response
The film received more positive reviews from critics, and received mixed-to-positive reviews from the audiences and fans of the first film, Scream 2 holds an approval rating of 81% based on 78 reviews and an average rating of 6.82/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. The website's critical consensus reads, "As with the first film, Scream 2 is a gleeful takedown of scary movie conventions that manages to poke fun at terrible horror sequels without falling victim to the same fate."

On Metacritic, it had a 63/100 on Metascore based on 22 reviews with "Generally favorable reviews" and an 8.7/10 user score on the same site.

Box office
Scream 2 opened in 2,663 theaters and took $32,926,342 on its opening weekend in box-office receipts, a $27 million increase over Scream, and went on to take $101,122,258 in the US with, as of 2011, a worldwide lifetime gross of $172,363,301.

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Trivia

 * Kevin Williamson had the idea for a sequel while writing the script for Scream (1996), discovering there was more to the story. This movie began principal photography just six months after the release of Scream (1996), and it was released less than a year after its predecessor.
 * Robert Rodriguez directed scenes of "Stab", the movie-within-a-movie. Rodriguez directed the Casey Becker (Heather Graham) scene and the Sidney and Billy (Luke Wilson) scene.

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