This disappointing sequel to last year's horror sleeper gets trapped in the clichés it's trying to send up. Poor Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)! Having survived the bloody events of SCREAM, she's now a college student trying to get
on with her life. But the release of
Stab -- the movie based on pushy newsbabe Gale Weathers' (Courteney Cox) best-selling book about the killings -- sets off a new wave of terror. Sidney and her college friends become the targets of a copycat serial killer, and as Randy (Jamie Kennedy) --
a movie nerd and connoisseur of horror sequels -- predicts, the body count is higher, the killings are more elaborate and the gore quotient is...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
120 mins