The year is 2011 and the students are live-streaming, the fans are marathon-ing, and Sidney was ready to close the book on her time in Woodsboro…until the remake rules throw a wrench in her plans. Unpack the uncannily meta (no, not that one) takes with us in Scream 4.

***CONTENT WARNING: potential spoilers for other Scream franchise films

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Sources:

• Scream 4 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262416/trivia/

• Scream 4 wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_4

• • ‘Scream 4’: The First Mainstream Feminist Horror Film by Melissa Saleh: https://medium.com/the-awl/scream-4-the-first-mainstream-feminist-horror-film-2e51a39dcf09
    The Final Girl Gone Wild: Post-Feminist Whiteness in ‘Scream 4’ by Jeremy Cornelius: https://btchflcks.com/2012/10/horror-week-2012-the-final-girl-gone-wild-post-feminist-whiteness-in-scream-4.html

We’re in the year 2000: the stakes are high, and the bangs are short, and beneath the Hollywood sign many a’ mystery unfold on the set of Stab 3, and Sidney’s back to reprise her role (in Scream 3).

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, school violence, gun violence, spoilers for other Scream franchise films

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Sources:

• Rewatching Scream 3 20 years later in the era of Time's Up and Me Too by Emma Fraser:

• https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rewatching-scream-3-20-years-later-in-the-era-of-times-up-and-me-too

• Scream 3 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134084/trivia/

• Scream 3 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_3

We’re (not) back in Woodsboro and Sidney’s got a new boyfriend, Gale’s got a new haircut, but Ghostface has a new phone number. Find out how to survive the sequel in 1997’s Scream 2.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of racial violence, school violence, gun violence, potential spoilers for other Scream franchise films

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Sources:

• Scream 2 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/trivia/

• Scream reddit posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scream/comments/r7h69p/scream_2_social_commentary/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scream/comments/nub3uw/a_summary_examining_diversity_in_the_scream_movies/

• Scream 2 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_2