2. Scream 4 VS Cabin in the Woods
Director: Wes Craven
Budget: $40million
Box Office: $97.1million
Distributed by: Dimension Films
Starring: David Arquette, Neve
Campbell, Courtney Cox, Emma
Roberts and Hayden Panettiere
Plot: Many years since the
Ghostface Killer (and last film).
Sidney Prescott returns to
Woodsboro for her book tour,
coming across old and new faces
along the way. However, Sidney's
arrival also sparks the return of
Ghostface, putting Sidney and
everyone she loves in danger.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=UlaZfOiGaCU
Director: Drew Goddard
Budget: $30million
Box Office: $66.5million
Distributed by:
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris
Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Fran
Kranz and Anna Hutchison
Plot: Five college friends visit a
remote cabin where one by one,
they fall victim to the various
horrors that await there. However
unknown to them, two scientists
are manipulating the goings-on
and ultimately sending the teens to
their graves for their own gain.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=NsIilFNNmkY
3. How is Scream 4 Postmodern?
• The opening: a film within a film, within a film. (LINK)
• Starring (for less than ten minutes): Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars),
Shanae Grimes (90210), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Kristen Bell
(Vernica Mars), Aimee Teegarden (Friday night Lights) and Britt
Robertson (Secret Circle).
• IRONY AND SELF AWARENESS
• References made of a fifth movie; ‘Stab 5’ including time travel –
an idea Wes Craven put forward for the fourth ‘Nightmare on
Elm Street ‘ but it was rejected.
• The characters visit the set of the ‘Stab’ films where a dummy of
Tatum stuck in the doggy door is visible at the "Stabathon".
There are also audience members dressed as Dewey and Gale
which emphasises how self aware the character are.
4. Every new main characters is an archetype for one of the characters from the original Scream: Jill (Sidney),
Kirby and Olivia (Tatum), Trevor (Billy), Charlie (Stu), and Robbie (Randy).
Similarly as shown in Charlie and Stu’s screenshot, they both
play the crazed killer without a personal motive of killing
Sidney and so in Scream 4, Charlie mimics a lot of Stu’s
behaviourisms and actions. This is especially noticeable
towards the end as the final ‘reveal’ scene plays out a lot like
the first one in the original Scream.
