The Scream franchise falters with this unconvincing wrap-up to the original trilogy. With the surviving cast members of the previous episodes now merely going through the expected self-referential motions, the worst thing about Scream 3 is that it makes you forget how original and inventive the first outing was in slicing and dicing slasher movie conventions. Despite the addition of feisty Parker Posey to the cast and a reasonably surprising ending, the film runs out of steam midway through and becomes exactly what the first Scream so smartly sent up.

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.