DVD Movie Rating for: Scream 3

3 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Scream 3

After the terrifying events that occurred around Windsor College, Sidney is now living alone in a secluded Northern California mountainside. Still haunted by her past, frightening images of her dead mother reappear time after time in her head as she tries to get on with her life. She now gives advice, under a fictional name for safety, to women in crisis via telephone. Soon enough though, her comfort turns to fear as she receives a threatening phone call from an anonymous source who informs her on the recent murders committed around the Hollywood set of "Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, the third and final chapter to the 'Stab' series. Sidney decides to visit the set when she finds out that with every victim, the new killer leaves behind a different photo of Sidney's deceased mother, Maureen Prescott. Eventually the cast of "Stab 3" start dying one by one and more photos of Maureen appear. Mark Kincaid, an LAPD detective, is sent to investigate the strange murder and becomes friendly with Sidney. Meanwhile, Gale visits the set of "Stab 3," after she hears of the murders. Ironically, she meets up with Dewey, who is now working behind the film alongside his actress/girlfriend Jennifer. Gale, Dewey, and Sidney rejoin along with the actors and actresses of "Stab 3," who are all shaken up by the rest of the cast being killed off. As the secret to Sidney's past unfolds, the three discover that in the trilogy, anything can happen.

Sidney is hibernating in the woods, her whereabouts unbeknownst to everyone but Dewey. After a number of murders that seem to be related to the Woodsboro case take place on the set of Stab 3, Sid comes to Hollywood to be terrorized, find out more about her mother's death, and put together the final pieces of the Scream mystery.

DVD Production Details of: Scream 3

Starring: Neve Campbell, David Arquette

Director: Wes Craven

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Dimension Home Video

DVD Release Date: July 4, 2000
DVD Features:
Commentary by director Wes Craven

Theatrical trailer(s)

Outtakes from all 3 "Scream" movies

Deleted scenes with commentary by director Wes Craven and crew

Alternate Ending with Audio Commentary

Creed Music Video "What If"

"Scream 3" alternative ending

Widescreen anamorphic format

Cast of the movie: Scream 3

• Neve Campbell .... Sidney Prescott

• David Arquette .... Dwight 'Dewey' Riley
• Courteney Cox .... Gale Weathers (as Courteney Cox Arquette)
• Patrick Dempsey .... Det. Mark Kincaid, LAPD
• Parker Posey .... Jennifer Jolie
• Scott Foley .... Roman Bridger
• Deon Richmond .... Tyson Fox
• Emily Mortimer .... Angelina Tyler
• Lance Henriksen .... John Milton
• Jenny McCarthy .... Sarah Darling
• Matt Keeslar .... Tom Prinze
• Patrick Warburton .... Steven Stone
• Liev Schreiber .... Cotton Weary
• Kelly Rutherford .... Christine Hamilton
• Jamie Kennedy .... Randy Meeks (video) Also Known As:

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Scream 3

Reviews of the movie: Scream 3

This third installment of the hugely popular Scream trilogy doesn't have the moxie and smarts of its two predecessors, but it's still a great thrill ride. Scripted by Ehren Kruger (from an outline by Scream writer Kevin Williamson), Scream 3 takes the three surviving characters from the first two films--beleagured heroine Sidney (Neve Campbell), ruthless TV journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox Arquette), and hapless deputy Dewey (David Arquette)--and transplants them to the environs of Hollywood. Turns out a familiarly masked killer is stalking the cast of Stab 3, the third installment of the movies within the Scream movies. (Following all this? Don't worry, it's not entirely vital to the plot.) It's supposed to be a fun house of mirrors, with each character encountering the actor playing themselves and visiting reconstructed sets of the murder scenes, but it doesn't have the same snap and crackle of the first two films. Rather than parodying the teen horror genre, Scream 3 seems to be playing by the rules instead of breaking them gleefully, and its postmodern plotting is a little too fast and loose. Williamson's presence is sorely missed--it's the difference between hitting one out of the park and scoring a solid triple. Director Wes Craven, though, still brings his die-hard energy to the proceedings, from the requisite heart-pumping prologue to the go-for-broke (but somewhat predictable) ending. Kudos to Campbell, Cox, and especially Arquette for bringing spirit to characters who should be justifiably tired of being corpse magnets; Campbell is remarkably graceful considering she's saddled with plot twists involving heretofore undisclosed family baggage. And in the film's one inspired stroke of brilliance, Cox's Gale is trailed by a hilarious Parker Posey as the actress playing Gale in Stab 3, who astutely realizes that if they're caught by the killer together, it'll be the real Gale who gets it. If Scream 3 had stuck to such ingenious parody throughout, it would have been a real winner; as it is, it's an energetic shadow of itself. With Scream alums Liev Schreiber and Jamie Kennedy in brief but winning cameos

Throw another insipid power ballad onto the CD player - it's time for 'Scream 3'. Where were we? Well, in the words of Craig David, allow me to "fill you in". 'Scream' was the horror movie sensation of 1996, setting itself up as the ultimate in self-referential knowingness and delivering plenty of Wes Craven's trademark shocks along the way. 'Scream 2', released a year later, also contained its fair share of frighteners, but was a major let-down on practically every other front. Now, climbing yet another couple of rungs down the quality ladder, we've got 'Scream 3', a pile of steaming plopsy if ever there was one.

Sure, Neve Campbell for some reason signed up to complete the trilogy. So too did fellow go-the-distancers Courteney Cox and David Arquette. But dear oh dear, they must have been hanging their Hollywood heads in shame after wrapping up this hokum. Or if they weren't, they should have been.

The flick takes place on the set of the made-up movie 'Stab 3', where a bloke in a strangely-familiar ghost mask is making a nuisance of himself by running around murdering members of the cast and crew. So our three franchise survivors, like the do-gooders they are, try to use their past gruesome experiences to help catch the killer - but before you can say "none of this even makes any sense," they're on the top of his hit list. And that's "hit" with a capital "S".

Wes Craven knows good and well how to shock an audience using his trusty well-worn catalogue of generic conventions, so I can only assume it was actually his 'Newsround'-presenting brother John who really helmed this one. There's not a single genuine scare to be had for the entire lacklustre 116 minutes, the cast all look like they'd rather be elsewhere (particularly Campbell, who doesn't even ATTEMPT one of her token forced facial expressions this time round), and the gaping stab wounds left by the slasher are never any match for the giant holes in the plot. 'Scream 3' isn't even fit to mop up the original movie's mess.