Scream Trilogy Box Set [1996]

Amazon.co.uk Review

When Randy the video geek rattles off the rules of surviving a horror movie in Wes Craven's Scream, he speaks for a generation of filmgoers who are all too aware of slasher-movie clichés. Playfully scripted by Kevin Williamson with a self-aware wink and more than a few nods to its grandfathers (from Psycho to Halloween to the Friday the 13th dynasty), Scream skewers teen horror conventions with loving reverence while re-creating them in a modern, movie-savvy context. And so goes the series, which continues the satirical spoofing by tackling (what else?) sequels while sustaining its own self-contained mythology. Catty reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) turns grisly murders into lurid best-sellers, a cult of killer wannabes continues to hunt spunky psycho-survivor Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) for their 15 minutes of fame, and a cheesy movie series (Stab) develops within the movie series.

Scream remains the high point of the series--a fresh take on a genre long since collapsed into routine, but Scream 2 spoofs itself wittily ("Why would anyone want to do that? Sequels suck!" opines college film student Randy), and delights with more elaborate set-pieces and all-new rules for surviving a horror movie sequel. The endangered veterans of the original film reunite one last time for Scream 3, which plays out on the movie set of Stab 3 (it's a trilogy within a trilogy!). With Williamson gone, replacement screenwriter Ehran Kruger tries to mine the formula one more time. It's a little tired by now, and pale imitations (Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer) have further drained the zeitgeist, but the film bubbles with bright humour and director Craven is stylistically at the top of his game. As a trilogy, it remains both the most consistently entertaining and self-aware horror series ever made. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

1st and 3rd fantastic!!! 2nd okay.......2008-01-05

I gave this boxset four overall as the first one is absolutly amazing, the third one is really good but not as good, and the second one is abit of a bore.
The first scene of Scream 1 made me feel so scared. I knew that I was in for a scary night. The acting is really good, and the suspense and violence is brilliant.
The second Scream starts off quite well, with two people being killed in the cinema during the film based on the killings called 'Stab.' Then, it got to be the same thing. People being rung up, tormented, killed, then everyone being a suspect. This is the worst one of the trilogy.
The third and final installment is quite good. I thought it would be crap as the second was. It was the same thing though, but the ending was very entertaining, even though some of the people were v. OTT when they were running.
Overall, a good boxset. Don't bother missing the second one as you would need them all to understand the third one.

Forget high definition this isn't even standard definition.......2007-07-27

These movies are 2.35:1 aspect ratio yet some moron decided to encode the DVDs in 4:3! That means nearly 2/3 of the video frame is wasted with black borders. If (like me) you have a widescreen display that assumes it can't crop 4:3 sources then you end up with a tiny little image in the middle of the screen. Presumably this is so we go buy the high def version when they release it.

Scream review love it or hate it........2007-05-10

SCREAM

I think that this has to be the gorriest, scariest, believable film out of the trilogy, there is a lot of high suspense and realy gory scenes if you are a horror bof this i is the film to get its about a group of teenagers in high school in woodsboro california, 3 of the group survive the rest die the opening is definately the best part and the most memorable

SCREAM 2

This one is not as good but still on the rails, i must admit it could have been better the scenes wernt so memorable but there is a good plot although as you find out in the third one the killers dont realy have anything to do with the trilogy plot.

SCREAM 3

This one is CRAP basicaly they all get together with the cast of stab 3 a fake trilogy based on the live of the gang in scream, anyway they all get killed except for... well your just gonna have to buy it to find out scream 3 is actualy qiet funny only bit that is scary is the killer dummy in the basement and even thats not the killer.

SCREAM 4

There is no such thing but i thin they should make one nut they all are stupid and they wont so there you go...

SCREAM!.......2006-08-11

Ok, I haven't bought the Box Set but i bought all three screams and they are excellent.
SCREAM 1: The residents of a small town are getting killed one by one by a killer who is addicted to scary movies.

SCREAM 2:STAB, a scary movie has came out and the plot is connected with that.

SCREAM 3:The final SCREAM, is always the scariest. STAB 3 is getting filmed and when the gang (NEVE CAMPELL, COURTENEY COX, DAVID ARQUETTE...) go to a spooky house they find out one of them is the killer, but u have to find out, so watch it, **********.

Scream.......2005-12-08

I loved all three screams. They all were funny, scary and a bit violent. The plot on each one was great. they were all realistic. I loved the parts where you knew something was going to happen, but you didn't know when. It was bloody, or too violent. If your're worried that it might be too gory, do worry, there's no chainsaws, just knives. There is one part in the first movie, where the violence goes over the top.
But I loved it! I loved Courtney Cox and David Arquette!
Overall this is a must buy!

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