Ranking The Ghostface Kills From Scream 2

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of SCREAM 2, the sequel to the movie that kickstarted the 90s horror movie wave, and one of the rare sequels in the horror genre that was actually pretty darn entertaining. So to commemorate the occasion I decided to rank the death scenes in this movie from worst to best.

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My Name Is Derek And I Am Still A Hate-Watcher

It has been 2 years since the last time I wrote about my hate-watching habit and try as I might I still can’t seem to get this monkey off my back. Sure most of the shows I was hate-watching have mercifully gone to the TV show graveyard in the sky yet other shows have popped up to fill that hole in my soul that only a good hate-watch can satisfy.

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Scream: The TV Series (Pilot) – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 53% (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Jamie Travis
Written By: Dan Dworkin
Starring: Willa Fitzgerald, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Bella Thorne and Tracy Middendorf
Network: MTV

Synopsis: In the premiere, the murder of a high-school student in the small town of Lakewood conjures memories of a similar murder that occurred 20 years earlier in the community. (Source)

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The Scream TV Series May End Up Being Awful But I Am Liking MTV’s Marketing For It

MTV’s SCREAM series has a lot of heavy lifting to do to overcome all the things I see as being wrong with it just from reports and the trailer. No Ghostface mask (the killer is wearing a freaking hoodie!), trying to stretch out a slasher film over 10 episodes of weekly television, the overwhelmingly white cast. But all is not lost.

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The Best Horror Movie Franchises Ranked By Me

Earlier this week I saw that there was a list ranking the horror movie franchises on Gawker and thought it would be a good idea to do here. My rules however are a bit different than what the folks at Gawker used. For my list the rules are as follows:

1. To qualify as a franchise there must be at least 3 movies released.
2. Remakes of movies can be counted as part of the franchise.
3. “VS” movies (like Aliens vs Predators and Freddy vs Jason) are not counted.
4. Must be horror flicks. Duh.

So on to my list.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Scream 4


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 58% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Wes Craven
Written By: Kevin Williamson
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin and David Arquette
Studio: The Weinstein Company/Dimension

Synopsis: In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill (played by Emma Roberts) and her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell). Unfortunately Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger. (Source)

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The Six Best Horror Movie Final Girls

For the uninitiated who are not up on their horror movie terminology, the Final Girl is a “horror film (particularly slasher film) trope that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story“. So now that the definition is clear here are the ladies who made the cut (so to speak) in my estimation:

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