Horror by Harrison

  “Hello, Sidney.” The big debate in the Scream fandom is which film is the best in the franchise, the first or the second (although the fourth is finally starting to get the praise it deserves and there are, inexplicably to me, some hardcore defenders of the third). While I maintain that the first is superior, its sequel more than holds its own. Scream 2 was written by Kevin Williamson ( The Faculty ) and directed by Wes Craven ( The Hills Have Eyes ). After the massive success of its predecessor, the sequel was immediately greenlit and was released on December 12th, 1997 (less than a year after the original). Scream 2 was made on a budget of $24 million, made $32,926,342 upon opening, and went on to make $172,363,301 worldwide. It received largely positive reviews upon release. Following the events of the first film, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell, Wild Things ) is now attending Windsor College. Soon she, the other survivors of the “Woodsboro Massacre”, and Sidney’s new cla...