hellholehorror A slick slasher concluding the trilogy aptly. It contains all the self- referential irony from the first two films and goes further with it to the point of mild annoyance. The death scenes are all through stabbing which is just a little tired by now. It barely deviates from the path set by the first two films. Enjoyable but now slightly fluffier than it should be.

JamesRutland All the three episodes of the series have their own message: 1) the first episode considers the banality of relationship lived as a splatter where the youth trivially approach serious events; 2) the second episode considers the stupidity of viewers in confront of criminal murderers they live as personal exaltation manipulated by marketing system ("so that the viewers are the real white mask") able to sell violence as a product without considering the consequences of that product in the weakness minds; 3) the third episode (this one) describes the real face of Hollywood under the white mask where actors sell themselves to get a part and often they are alienated by the false dive image in order to be manipulated by directors and/or producers so to get sexual intercourse and orgies which generates aftermaths in the attitude of their sexual "toys": the first consequence is the degradation of person into material object selfishly owned. Wes Craven was able to mask its climax message with an horror series well made avoiding any exaggerations, including a bit of smart humor during the calm phases of his movies. So the series is an accusation against the consumerism system promoted by Hollywood which considers the viewers as useful idiots from which to take easy money by emotional suggestions injected using both the motion pictures and the sound environment ("pay to get ephemeral emotions as the addict pays to get doses of drug").

John Mitchell The main reason I thought Scream was so good was the way it played with fans' expectations. It said 'Here's what usually happens in the genre, and here's what we're going to do'. Sometimes that was to totally subvert a genre convention and sometimes it was to follow one, having first pointing out that it was one. I thought it added a lot of humour to the film, as well as being very clever. With Scream 2 we got more subversion and more of a kind of knowing wink, which was delicious. With the third, imaginatively titled Scream 3, we got something that appears to going somewhere new and interesting, but soon became a little run-of-the-mill and very predictable. In short, it turned into the very kind of stuff that the original and the follow-up were lampooning. OK, there are moments in this which are worth a giggle, but I wasn't rubbing my hands together with delight at how clever it was, as I had done with the first two. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that, as the movie progresses, it gets sillier and more contrived. It pains me to say it, having loved the first two, but, the trilogy ends, not on a high, how it should have, but rather fizzles out.

GL84 Following a brutal murder, a detective's investigation into the horror movie revolving around the victims of a similar incident coincides with previous rampages and tries to find a way of stopping the ravenous killer from continuing.With a lot to really like about it and only a few mild flaws, this is a certainly fun entry in the series. One of the film's greatest strengths is the fact that the stalking scenes are suspenseful. The opening is just as good as the others which gets really going early on with the phone-call goes into the great bedroom search that is really suspenseful. There's also nothing wrong with any of the stalking scenes in here as there's a fantastic scene inside the studio where the killer chases one of the actors through the different backstage areas, and with several great ideas brought in to keep this going along in the closets and stage-doors, this one scene leaves a great impression while the assault on the house is fantastic and features a couple great scenes. The best scenes, though, come from all the stalking and chasing down at the end, from the discoveries in the basement to the chase behind the glass mirrors in the secret passageways and much more, these scenes are really entertaining. This one also has some suspense from the calls, with the twist of different voices rather than the one since it adds to whether or not the voice is real or the killer's. This one has plenty of action to it as well, including a frenetic chase through rush-hour traffic, the fantastic house assault and the big chase through the studio are all fun and give the film a fantastic pace to it. The fact that this one also decides to really fill in a couple of holes in the story nicely, and there's some fun to be had from the really good explanations, which make sense and makes this really feel like a well- rounded trilogy. These here are what the film does right as this one here doesn't have a whole lot of flaws. The biggest one is that there's a whole lot of padded time in the film, unlike the others which is way too long and seems stretched out. The beginning hallucinations don't do much, as there's no reason why these are there other than to give false scares and the ending explanations just take forever and gets too over- explained at several points, which becomes a torturous monologue to something that was perfectly understood minutes earlier. Along the lame kills that are really repetitive and don't offer up much blood and gore here, these small flaws are what keep the film down. Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.