Scream 3 [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Wes Craven Wes Craven

Overview

Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson produced a third installment of their Scream franchise. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), traumatized by the brutal murders of her friends, has left her hometown of Woodsboro and is working in California as a crisis intervention counselor. Meanwhile, "Stab," the novel by Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox Arquette), is spawning a series of successful horror films, and as Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro is being filmed in Los Angeles, a lunatic has gotten his hands on a copy of the script, and is murdering the characters in the same order that they die in the movie. But predicting who will die next is not as simple as it might seem, since the producers have circulated three different screenplays, with different endings. In addition to Campbell and Cox-Arquette, David Arquette returns from the first two films as less-than-bright "Dewey" Riley; new members of the cast include Parker Posey, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley, and Jenny McCarthy. Kevin Williamson wrote the original story, but the screenplay was penned by Ehren Kruger.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/07/2021
UPC:	0191329205174
Original Release:	2000
Source:	Miramax
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	20,649

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Neve Campbell	Sidney Prescott
David Arquette	Riley,Student
Courteney Cox Arquette	Gale Weathers
Parker Posey	Jennifer
Liev Schreiber	Cotton
Lance Henriksen	John Milton
Patrick Dempsey	Det. Kincaid
Scott Foley	Roman
Matt Keeslar	Tom Prinze
Jenny McCarthy	Sarah
Patrick Warburton	Steven Stone
Emily Mortimer	Angelina
Deon Richmond	Tyson Fox
Kelly Rutherford	Christine
Beth Toussaint	Female Caller
Roger Corman	Studio Executive
Josh Pais	Wallace
Kevin Smith	Silent Bob
Jason Mewes	Jay
Heather Matarazzo	Martha Meeks
Jamie Kennedy	Randy Meeks
Carrie Fisher	Bianca
John Embry	Stage Security Guard
Lawrence Hecht	Mr. Prescott
Lisa Beach	Studio Tour Guide
Erik Erath	Stan
D.K. Arredondo	Office Security Guard
Lisa Gordon	Waitress
C.W. Morgan	Mr. Loomis
Julie Janney	Moderator
Lynn McRee	Maureen Prescott
Nancy O'Dell	Female Reporter
Ken Taylor	Male Reporter
Roger Jackson	The Voice
Pete Anthony	Conductor
Marco Beltrami	Composer

Technical Credits

Ehren Kruger

Laeta Kalogridis

Wes Craven	Director
Rick Avery	Stunts,Stunts
Lisa Beach	Casting
Ron Bolanowski	Special Effects
Cathy Conrad	Producer
Cary Granat	Executive Producer
Marianne Maddalena	Producer
Andrew Rona	Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Kevin Williamson	Producer
Ehren Kruger	Screenwriter
Cathy Konrad	Producer,Executive Producer
Chuck Borden	Stunts
Steve Lambert	Stunts
Clint Lilley	Stunts
Terry Cadiente	Stunts
Patricia Green	Producer
Stuart Besser	Executive Producer
Laeta Kalogridis	Screenwriter
Rick Barker	Stunts
Gilbert Combs	Stunts
Tabby Hanson	Stunts
Phil Culotta	Stunts
Mary Albee	Stunts
Dana Reed	Stunts
Laura Albert	Stunts
Erik Cord	Stunts
Spiro Razatos	Stunts
Michele Sebek	Stunts
Hollis Hill	Stunts
Jennifer Badger	Stunts
Tamara Brady Conrad	Stunts
Gloria O'Brien	Stunts
Piero Mura	Sound Editor
Todd Toon	Sound Editor,Sound/Sound Designer
Donald Malouf	Sound Editor
Albert Gasser	Sound Editor
David Kern	Sound Editor
John Kwiatkowski	Sound Editor

Editorial Reviews

Scream 3 makes a fitting finale to the all-time most successful horror-movie franchise -- a uniquely self-aware series that manages to lampoon fright-film conventions even as it hews to them lovingly. This time around, murder-spree survivors Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), and Dewey Riley (David Arquette) are reunited in Hollywood, where their harrowing exploits are being dramatized in a cheesy slasher film. That's unnerving enough. What's worse is that the actors playing them are being slain brutally, one at a time by a killer who is supposed to be dead. (The victims include erstwhile Playboy pinup Jenny McCarthy and indie-film darling Parker Posey.) Screenwriter Kevin Williamson peppers his script with references to numerous horror films; fans of the genre will enjoy the lengthy recapitulations of "rules" predetermining the outcome of a trilogy's final installment. Director Wes Craven expertly manipulates the familiar situations to provide an equal number of laughs and shrieks, giving the Scream series an exemplary send-off.