This will be a first day buy for me. Not that it was a great Scream movie. Part 2 still holds that title for.me. I am just glad there are deleted scenes. I was an extra in the movie and the one scene I was in the most, the recreation of the fountain scene in the first one, got cut out. Hopefully will be one of the deleted scenes since it was in the trailer and the marketing stills. Still, it was alright of a movie. Didn't guess the killer at all.

The best of the sequels! I'll buy it the week it comes out. I actually enjoyed it more than Scream. Drew Barrymore's death scene is brilliant, but I like Scream 4 the best. Scream is still a great horror movie though. Although I'm not the biggest fan of Scream 2 except the first two death scenes.

NickMichalak wrote: This year has been full of mediocre movies all over the place.  This is the only film this year I've gone to see twice.  It wasn't all great as some of the humor was a bit off track, but you can't beat that ending.  I thought that was pure brilliance!  This is on my list to buy come October.  I hope they include a feature commentary.  They were done for the previous three, and that's usually my favorite special feature, anyway.

-NJM

I have to agree. I LOVED the ending.

Spoiler I like that how the other films just were like, killer's dead, they pop up, and kill them again. But this one dragged it out a little bit more. The hospital scene was awesome!

And actually, I have to say, the BEGINNING, I thought was even better. I loved the way they...

Spoiler  incorporated the 'Stab' films into the opening, and kept faking it out

I thought the movie was a great return to the franchise. I love the 'Scream' movies, but in comparison, 'Scream 3' was a letdown in my opinion. I didn't like the "supernatural" elements of it, when the first two felt more like it COULD happen. 'Scre4m', I thought, was entertaining throughout.

It seem the special features as lack as the previous films, but I'll still getting it.
The DVD cover is much more better than the blu-ray's floating heads!

No audio commenatary by Wes......?  Not like him not to do one.  Hmmm...

that's funny how the BR got the c**ppy cover! LOL. finally the BR'ers get screwed over (regarding a cover) instead of it being the other way around.

pitdeadite wrote: horrorfan25 wrote: pitdeadite wrote:  I loved the previous three installments, but this movie was absolutely dreadful and by far the worst movie of the year.

Sit through "The Rite" and "Arthur" and then tell me this movie was the worst of the year.

 Still saying it.

Wow. You really hated it THAT much? The lowest rating I can see someone giving this film, which is still pretty harsh, is a 2.5/5. There's no way it deserves like 1/5 or a 0.5/5. The acting was solid, the film kept my interest throughout, the kills were gruesome, and the script was very well-written. I agree the first two "Screams" were a lot better, but this one was a nifty, little sequel that improved on what went wrong with "Scream 3". Now "The Rite" and "Arthur", those were just AWFUL. My god, I was so bored I wanted to kill myself. At least "Scream 4" kept my interest.

horrorfan25 wrote: pitdeadite wrote:  I loved the previous three installments, but this movie was absolutely dreadful and by far the worst movie of the year.

Sit through "The Rite" and "Arthur" and then tell me this movie was the worst of the year.

 Still saying it.

I loved the previous three installments, but this movie was absolutely dreadful and by far the worst movie of the year.

Not as good as the first two, but much better than the third. I did have some issues with some of the dialogue (the terrible Bruce Willis line, anyone?) and pacing, but all-in-all, not a terrible effort. It felt like a nice little feature-length epilogue to a story already told. The final act was impressive and I had the most obnoxious grin on my face when the killer(s) was/were revealed.

My favorite character: Kirby Reed. I'm not a Hayden Panettiere fan, but she brought some much-needed gusto to her role.

I'm hoping the cover is merely a placeholder and something better comes along. It's quite sad when fans produce better material than those who are EMPLOYED to do so. Have you guys seen TheMadButchers work? Phenomenal.

"..shame it didn't crack 100 million"..

This movie stunk so bad it didn't do $100Mil (Worldwide).. terrible rehash of the original movie.. guess 'Scream 5' doesn't happen now (as originally planned).

Well it makes perfect sense releasing it in October. It is in fact a Horror film isn't it? Conjuncts with Halloween a few weeks later. It will also generate more sales, the studio knows what their doing. And their using this strategic move to release it on October. Since the film didn't do as expected in theaters it needs to make up for its home video release.

matt86 wrote: Yeh the artwork is as awful as everyone is saying, it's very much in line with the other 3. I would have preferred just the mask as the cover but it's the second best alternative IMO

I meant ISN'T as awful

horrorfan25 wrote: alex77014 wrote: was it just me...or did this feel like a rehash of the first one???  this and the hangover II.  i found the guys playing the roles of matthew lillard & jamie kennedy to be EXTREMELY annoying.    

It is a rehash in some parts because it's completely intentional. Spoiler  For an example, at the end of the movie where Emma Roberts and Rory Culkin kept stabbing each other/hurting each other. They even said in the scene it was a homage to the original. . But please please do not mention "Hangover II" when talking about "Scream 4". That's like saying oh, both "Epic Movie" and "JFK" had a storyline.

matt86 wrote: This got the job done, not great but worth seeing once. Better than the third but the first two were still the best, I don't need to see it again

I completely agree. This wasn't bad, but nothing special. I'm still going to buy it for my collection though.

I like that the "BD/DVD/Digital Copy" trend is getting more popular, but I hope the extras aren't sacrificed. With Warner Bros. the extras are almost ALWAYS the last thought with these combo packs.

Yeh Warner has been sucking wind with several titles lately(due date, unknown, hall pass, to name a few) they need to step it up, some people actually care about special features and it could even reduce BD sales if they keep doing this. I hope digital downloads dont overtake this

I thought it was better than the third but not as great as the first two. Still loved it though. Saw it twice. Am disappointed it wasn't a bigger hit. At least it's doing 100 Million WW. I still hope for an eventual fifth film.

I wanna see this film. It has a decent RT reception and a good IMDb score. Plus, I'm interested in its meta story and hopefully its creativeness.

Yeh the artwork is as awful as everyone is saying, it's very much in line with the other 3. I would have preferred just the mask as the cover but it's the second best alternative IMO

Why does everyone have a problem with the artwork? I knew it would be this and I love it. The other three movies are exactly the same. At least they're sticking with the format. Day one for me.

Oct 4 that is an unusually long time to release the DVD when it came out in April

I enjoyed this, shame to see it didn't crack 100 million as I thought it was the second best in the series. As said before they really did mess with this movie with a few re-shoots and tweaks that probably weren't needed at all. I was hoping they would use that poster for the cover (with ghost face fading to the knife) but the terrible photo-shopping of the floating heads really kills it, even worse then past "floating head" posters. I wonder what the DVD looks like?

Seems the Netherlands are getting this:
http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/142255-post20.h...

Pathetic disgrace.....and that's just Hayden Panittiere's hair style. The movie was even worse than that.

october?  daaaamn!!

i get it, its a horror movie so that month makes sense but these days movies rarely take 6 months to hit home video. i totally expected a late august release, early september at worse.

i personally liked it a lot so i will definately add it to my collection but i guess the whole different studios owning the series thing has really killed any chance for a box set. i seriously dont understand how Lionsgate has the rights for the first 3 while Anchor Bay got this one. all 4 were Dimension movies so how the hell did that happen? and who would split up the rights to a franchise produced by the same company to different studios? you'd think whoever got the original trilogy rights would automatically get the 4th...weeird.

anyway, yeah the cover looks "meh" as the kiddies say. i like that they stuck to the style of the previous 3 but the actors definately looked forced in there by lame photoshop or something compared to the other movies.

I didn't think it was the best in the series, but I do think it'd be my second favorite. I don't know if that's me just loving the movie, or me just being nostalgic and being excited for it. But I enjoyed it a lot.

I liked it a lot, but yeesh, that artwork.

Scream 4 is definitely the best horror of the year! And best horror sequel of the decade as well!
But honestly, though the movie is good, but the artworks are damn ugly, I can say that the fan made done even better!
This cover art is just as c**p as its theatrical poster.