Somehow the notion of a different killer or killers in the same disguise as the killer or killers of the original Scream does not seem fit for two sequels. (It is, if anything, even more taxing than the notion of the same killer coming back to life, and back to life, and back to life, as in the Halloween series -- or more respectably, the Hammer Dracula series.) And the "self-reflexive" comments on screen trilogies -- not a large field when you stop to think about it -- do not seem nearly as savvy as the comments on dead-teenager films in the first Scream or on sequels in general in the second. Certainly the comments would appear to have little bearing on the Marcel Pagnol trilogy of Fanny, Marius, and César, or on the "Maxim Gorki Trilogy" by Mark Donskoi, or on Masaki Kobayashi's Human Condition trilogy or Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy, let alone the more loosely connected "Silence of God" trilogy by Ingmar Bergman or Vietnam trilogy by Oliver Stone. Just what -- apart from Star Wars -- are we talking about here? Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Parker Posey, Patrick Dempsey; directed by Wes Craven. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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