| | | The most terrifying scream is always the last.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), French, Dubbed, Spanish, Subtitled
In Scream 3, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Wes Craven ( Music Of The Heart, Scream, Scream 2) brings back his principal cast of popular characters from Scream 1 & 2, including David Arquette, Neve Campbell (TV's Party Of Five), Courteney Cox Arquette (TV's Friends) and Liev Schreiber (Scream, Scream 2). The film also introduces a new cast of characters portrayed by Parker Posey (House Of Yes), Jenny McCarthy (Diamonds), Patrick Dempsey (Can't Buy Me Love) and Scott Foley (TV's Felicity), who makes his motion picture debut. Scream 3 takes place of the production set of "Stab 3, Return To Woodsboro", a chilling thriller that recounts the events that terrified the town of Woodsboro--and continue to haunt Sidney Prescott (Campbell). After leaving Windsor College three-and-a-half years ago, Sidney has settled down in a quiet and secluded area of Northern California. But when terror erupts on the set of "Stab 3" she is ultimately drawn out of hiding and must confront her worst fears. On the set of "Stab 3", TV personality Gale Weathers (Cox Arquette) is hot on the trail and ready to break the story of the terrifying events that have occurred during the film's production. However, when she runs into an old flame, detective Dewey Riley (Arquette), technical advisor on the film, she finds him in a cozy relationship with actress Jennifer Jolie (Posey) who has portrayed Weathers in all three "Stab" movies. Directing the cast of "Stab 3" characters is filmmaker Roman Bridger (Foley)--a well-known music video director who is making his motion picture debut. As LAPD detective Mark Kinkaid (Dempsey) leads the investigation, Weathers, Dewey and Prescott set out to find the truth behind the shattering developments that take place on the set of "Stab 3". Scream 3 marks director Wes Craven's 15th feature film. He creates a movie-within-a-movie providing a healthy dose of humor and irony. "This piece is a real mind twister," says Craven. "It takes the audience deep into the reality behind the reality. Nothing is as it seems."
"Suspenseful, clever & very entertaining!" NBC-TV
Editor's Note
Wes Craven's final installment of his highly-successful SCREAM trilogy concludes with a fun, fast, and furious romp that cuts through B-movie cliches as readily as it does the warm flesh of its hip young cast. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and friends Gale Weathers and Dwight "Dewey" Riley (Courteney Cox and David Arquette) once again find themselves face to face with a masked psychopath, who's making deadly edits to the cast of STAB 3, the schlocky slasher film based upon Sidney's own "real-life" horrors. Fueled by Ehren Kruger's (ARLINGTON ROAD) snappy script, the third chapter packs a punch with a plenty of turn-on-a-dime plot twists and a high laugh-to-shriek ratio.
Plot Summary
Desperate to escape the demons of her past, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) discretely cocoons herself in a remote, high-security ranch house in the woods of Northern California, where she works as a phone counselor for a crisis hotline. She's content to remain in quiet seclusion, but finds herself once again facing mortal danger when the masked killer Ghostface (named for the Munch-inspired costume) begins cutting into the cast of STAB 3--the schlocky series of slasher films based upon the Woodsboro and Windsor College murders. One by one STAB 3's stars meet grisly deaths at the hands of the psychopath, who--armed with a cell phone, a copy of the film's screenplay, and an arsenal of B-movie cliches--gleefully hunts down and eviscerates his victims. The killer's modus operandi adheres to the "rules" of engagement codified by the great film trilogies STAR WARS and THE GODFATHER, which dictate that in the third chapter, anything goes. Now Sidney must return to "Woodsboro"--recreated as the set of STAB 3--and team-up with cut-throat reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), small-town deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley (David Arquette), Hollywood detective Marc Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey), and the remaining cast of STAB 3 in order to stop the killer before he makes his final cut.
| Features | Widescreen Format Enhanced For 16x9 | | Behind The Scenes Bonus Footage From All Scream Films | | French Language Track | | Spanish Subtitles | | 5.1 Surround Sound | | Cast And Crew Bios | | Commentary By Director Wes Craven And Crew | | Alternative Ending | | Theatrical Trailer | | International Trailer | | Creed Music Video Featuring The Hit Song "What If" | | Outtakes from all Scream Movies | | Deleted Scenes With Commentary By Director Wes Craven And Crew | | TV Spots |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 9/5/2006 |
| Running Time: 117 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 18304 | | UPC: 00717951004895 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (2000) | | | Parker Posey, Nominee, Best Comedic Performance | | | Neve Campbell, Nominee, Best Female Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...SCREAM 3 is a crafty and well-crafted wrap-up..." 2/7-13/2000 p.48-9USA Today
"...The Hollywood setting allows for a pleasant succession of in-references and gags..." 05/01/2000 p.59-60 New York Times
"...The film is funny and brisk....Parker Posey in particular glows as Jennifer..." 02/04/2000 p.E14 San Francisco Chronicle 6 of 10
...Campy, overwrought and gleefully cannibalistic in the way it references and regurgitates horror flicks of yore, Scream 3 fulfills its modest ambitions by delivering a glib slasher spoof... - Edward Guthmann
The New York Times 7 of 10
... the film is funny and brisk, with enough good lines to make the comedy more satisfying than the somewhat routine but still unsettling jolts to the spine... Parker Posey in particular glows as Jennifer, the actress playing the bullying reporter Gale Weathers. Posey, a specialist at jittery self-absorption, is like an up-to-the-minute version of Carole Lombard; she alone makes the picture worth seeing. - Elvis Mitchell
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