Scream 2 (1997)
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
- During the filming of Scream 2, Neve Campbell improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The incredible score for Scream 2 was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven, written by Kevin Williamson. Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott, played by Neve Campbell, is now a college student when a new Ghostface killer begins targeting survivors of the original massacre and people connected to the events. The sequel's meta-awareness extended to explicit discussion of horror sequel rules โ the kills are bigger, the suspect pool wider, and the past is never truly dead.
The film's opening sequence, in which Jada Pinkett Smith and Omar Epps are murdered during a preview screening of the in-universe film "Stab" (a movie-within-the-movie based on the first film's events), was a brilliantly self-referential set piece that commented on the relationship between horror audiences and on-screen violence. The supporting cast, including Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O'Connell, Timothy Olyphant, and Liev Schreiber, made the suspect pool genuinely compelling. Scream 2 earned $172 million worldwide on a $24 million budget.
