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3	''Scream 3'' is a 2000 {{slasher movie}} directed by Creator/WesCraven, from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger. It is the third film in the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' franchise.
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5	Some time after the [[Film/Scream2 killings at Windsor College]], Sidney Prescott (Creator/NeveCampbell) has gone into complete isolation. When the ''Stab'' film series begins production on its third and final installment, another killer calling themselves Ghostface surfaces on the scene, apparently targeting its cast members. It soon becomes evident that the murders are somehow linked to Sidney's late mother Maureen, forcing Sidney to face her past once and for all.
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7	Returning from previous installments are Creator/CourteneyCox, Creator/DavidArquette, Creator/JamieKennedy, and Creator/LievSchreiber, while new additions to the cast include Creator/PatrickDempsey, Creator/ScottFoley, Creator/LanceHenriksen, Creator/MattKeeslar, Creator/JennyMcCarthy, Creator/EmilyMortimer, Creator/ParkerPosey, Creator/KellyRutherford, Creator/DeonRichmond, Creator/PatrickWarburton, Creator/JoshPais, Creator/HeatherMatarazzo, and Creator/CarrieFisher, while Creator/RogerLJackson once again returns as the voice of Ghostface.
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9	Though intended to be the final film in the ''Scream'' series, it would later be followed by a fourth film, ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'', in 2011. A fifth film, ''[[Film/Scream2022 Scream]]'', would kick off a new storyline of the series in 2022.
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12	!!This film provides examples of:
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14	* AdvertisedExtra: In-universe. Cotton Weary was supposed to only cameo as the first victim in ''Stab 3'', but can still be seen on posters for the film as if he would be a major character.
15	* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:John Milton to his son, Roman.]]
16	-->[[spoiler:'''Milton:''' You don't have to do this, Roman. Just tell me what you want. I can make it happen. Any picture. Name your budget. Script approval. Final cut!]]
17	--> [[spoiler:'''Roman:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I already have it.]] ''[[SlashedThroat (slashes Milton's throat)]]'']]
18	* AlasPoorVillain: Subverted. [[spoiler:Roman]] holds hands with Sidney after she stabs him in the chest in an apparent attempt to connect with her for once, but then rises back up and lunges at her with his knife.
19	* AlliterativeName: '''J'''ennifer '''J'''olie (and her real name '''J'''udy '''J'''urgenstern) and '''S'''teven '''S'''tone.
20	* ArcWelding: The killer, [[spoiler:Roman]], reveals that [[spoiler:he]] was the one who originally convinced [[spoiler:Billy and Stu]] to start killing, making [[spoiler:him]] directly responsible for the events of the first movie and indirectly responsible for the second.
21	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:John Milton. To a much lesser extent Tom Prinze was a smug prick although unlike Milton he didn't exactly deserve to die.]]
22	* AwardBaitSong: Does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDHZn5zbGA "Is This the End"]] by Music/{{Creed\|Band}} count?
23	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Roman was the one that convinced Billy and Stu to become killers in the first film, and was indirectly responsible for Mrs. Loomis wanting to avenge Billy's death, plus Mickey, Jill ''and'' Charles' fame-seeking motivation for being the next Ghostfaces. Furthermore, Roman was the lone Ghostface killer in the third film, so one could arguably consider him as the Biggest Bad for the series, at least for the original trilogy. ]]
24	* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Subverted when [[spoiler:Ghostface throws his knife at Dewey, and it hits him on the handle side. It still hurts enough for him to fall down the stairs.]]
25	* BlamingTheVictim: The film reveals that Sidney's mother Maureen Prescott was once an aspiring actress going by the name of Rina Reynolds, who was gang-raped at a party. [[spoiler:John Milton]], the leader of the gang-rape, argues that "nothing happened to her that she didn't invite... in one way or another, no matter what she said afterwards."
26	* BookcasePassage: One provides the entrance to Milton's secret home theater.
27	* BoomHeadshot: Enforced. [[spoiler:Roman wearing a bulletproof vest allows him to NoSell the several instances where Dewey gets multiple shots on him directly in the chest. To put him away for good, Dewey has to shoot him in the head (as Sidney repeatedly yells at him to do).]]
28	* CallBack:
29	** When Sidney arrives on the ''Stab 3'' set, she notices that all the house models resemble her old house and Stu's house. She then spends some time studying the replicas. For Stu's house, she takes great notice of the garage door, and for her own house, she sits in the replica of her bedroom, remembering her conversation with Billy.
30	** Moments later, Ghostface attacks her, and at one point, the chase sequence resembles Sidney's first chase sequence back in the [[{{Film/Scream1996}} original film]].
31	** [[spoiler:As a drunk Roman takes Jennifer to find Milton's secret theater room in his house, he says to Dewey, "We'll be right back!" One of Randy's horror movie rules in the first film was that a character saying "I'll be right back!" ensured that they would never be back. The rule seemingly comes true when Gale finds Roman's dead body in the basement, with him seemingly having been KilledOffscreen, but this is proven to be a [[FakingTheDead fakeout]] to hide his identity as the killer.]]
32	** [[spoiler:Roman fakes his death just like Billy did.]]
33	* TheCameo:
34	** [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse Jay and Silent Bob]] appear on the movie set of ''Stab 3''. In their film ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', they interrupt the filming of a fictional ''Scream'' sequel.
35	** Creator/RogerCorman also has a cameo as a studio executive.
36	** In-universe, Cotton Weary shoots a cameo for ''Stab 3'' AsHimself.
37	** Creator/HeatherMatarazzo appears as Randy's sister.
38	** Creator/CarrieFisher appears... as a woman who is always mistaken for Carrie Fisher, and is very annoyed by it. She also accuses Carrie Fisher of [[CastingCouch sleeping with]] Creator/GeorgeLucas to get the role of Princess Leia, which she was apparently very close to getting.
39	* ChekhovsGun:
40	** After Ghostface discovers Sidney's home location and harasses Sidney on the phone, Sidney proceeds to arm herself with a revolver that she keeps inside her desk. [[spoiler:Because this occurs so early in the film, it is easy to forget that when she borrows a gun from the police station, she actually has two guns, not one, at that point. Thus, when Ghostface forces her to throw away the pistol discovered by the metal detector, she is able to keep her revolver and use it against him.]]
41	** The [[spoiler:BulletproofVest]] that Sidney uses in the finale is first seen in the police station when Ghostface once again calls her.
42	** Roman speculates that Milton's mansion has a [[SecretRoom secret screening room]]. It turns out to be an understatement since Milton has multiple {{secret passage}}s and secret rooms throughout his mansion. [[spoiler:Furthermore, the final battle takes place in said secret screening room.]]
43	* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Roman to Maureen. Heartbreakingly, it's why she wanted nothing to do with him when he showed up, and his anger over this essentially set the events of the film series in motion.]]
44	* ContinuityDrift: Several of the things, [[spoiler:such as the killer managing to pop up shortly after Roman's presumed death]], only really make sense if there are two killers. [[spoiler:This is because there actually used to be two -- in the original draft, Angelina was Roman's accomplice.]]
45	* DawsonCasting: Happens in-universe. Sarah is 35 years old, but her character in ''Stab 3'', [[RedShirt Candy]], is only 21. Subverted in reality, as Jenny [=McCarthy=], who played the role of Sarah, was born in 1972, and was 27 when filming her scenes in 1999. Scott Foley is the same age as Jenny [=McCarthy=], yet his character Roman is celebrating his 30th birthday.
46	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: This film really hits the deconstruction of the FinalGirl character. Traumatized by killers constantly trying to kill her and successfully killing the people around her, Sidney is now living as a slightly paranoid recluse, and is still plagued by nightmares. At one point while visiting the set of ''Stab 3'', she finds herself in a recreation of her bedroom from the first movie. The memories overwhelm her, and she swiftly breaks down. For a ''real'' final girl, the horror wouldn't end with the credits.
47	* DiedOnTheirBirthday: [[spoiler:The movie's climax takes place at Roman's birthday party at John Milton's mansion. Played around with. After everyone at the party splits up to look for secret passageways, Roman uses this moment to first [[FakingTheDead fake his own death]] (Gale finds him in a trunk with a large knife sticking out of his stomach) before later revealing himself to be the Ghostface killer and explaining his motives to Sidney. The two of them fight, and in the end, Sidney stabs Roman in the back, twice, with an icepick. Roman ultimately dies from these injuries but not before sharing a sibling moment with his half-sister, Sidney, who takes some sympathy on him.]]
48	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. Jennifer punches Dewey for being concerned about Gale instead of her after the bombing of Jennifer's house. Gale punches ''her'' in retaliation.
49	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:After spending a majority of ''Scream 2'' as a major character following his exoneration for the murder of Maureen Prescott, seeking fame and vindication that Sidney eventually gives him in the end, Cotton Weary and his girlfriend are turned into the opening deaths of this film.]]
50	* DumbBlonde: Sarah, who mistakenly believes that ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s famous shower scene was in ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' instead.
51	* EarnYourHappyEnding: With the death of [[spoiler:Roman, who orchestrated the events of the first movie and by extension, the second, Sidney is now able to live happily and without fear, and to finally properly heal... [[HappyEndingOverride at least until]] [[Film/Scream4 ten years later]]]].
52	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted (possibly even inverted). [[spoiler:Roman's]] motivation for killing everyone was because his mother disowned him and ran off to start a new family.
53	* {{Fauxshadowing}}: Tom Prinze callously theorizes that Sidney is the new Ghostface. [[spoiler:In early drafts for the film, this was meant to foreshadow that Angelina, the actress who plays Sidney in ''Stab 3'', was Ghostface, but in the final film, Roman reveals himself as the lone killer with no partner helping him.]]
54	* FlippingTheBird: Gale gives a middle finger to [[Film/TheViewAskewniverse Jay and Silent Bob]] when they bump into her and Jay, mistaking her for Creator/ConnieChung, asks her about [[Series/{{Maury}} Maury Povich]].
55	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
56	** The sudden appearance of Randy's [[RememberTheNewGuy previously unmentioned sister]] foreshadows [[spoiler:the sudden appearance of Sidney's previously unmentioned half-brother as the killer.]]
57	** Likewise, in Randy's videotape, Randy talks about trilogies and how "true trilogies" are about going back to the beginning and discovering something that wasn't true from the get-go. [[spoiler:When he notes examples of "true trilogies", he uses ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the film in which Luke discovers that he has a secret sibling, and ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'', the film that revealed that Sonny Corleone had an illegitimate son. This point is driven even further home with the cameo of Carrie Fisher, who appears as an actress who nearly got the Princess Leia role.]]
58	** Milton admits to Gale [[spoiler:that Maureen Prescott may have been raped at one of his parties. He was right, since the killer is one of Maureen's own children, a {{child by rape}}.]]
59	** About halfway through the film, Jennifer is worried that she'll die next because Gale Weathers - whom she's playing - dies following Sarah Darling's character Candy in the script. However, she reveals [[spoiler:before her murder to Ghostface that Gale was the killer of ''Stab 3'', implying she faked her death. This Ghostface, Roman, faked his death in order to throw the group off his scent.]]
60	* FramingTheGuiltyParty: [[spoiler:Roman]] does the [[spoiler:"framing yourself"]] variant, [[spoiler:just like Billy before him: leaving behind evidence so the police will focus on him after Sarah dies, but then look elsewhere once the planted evidence is proven faulty.]]
61	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:After Roman reveals himself to be Ghostface, he explains his past rejection by the world and Maureen as the reason for his murderous rampage during a MotiveRant to Sidney. However, Sidney has heard this story too many times from previous killers to care, and calls him out by pointing out that it's just an excuse for his own sadism.]]
62	-->[[spoiler:'''Roman:''' You're gonna pay for the life you stole from me, Sid. For the mother, and for the family, and for the stardom and -- Goddamn it! -- ''everything you have that should've been mine!''\
63	'''Sidney:''' God! Why don't you stop your whining and get on with it? I've heard this shit before!\
64	'''Roman:''' Stop!\
65	'''Sidney:''' You know why you kill people, Roman? Do you?\
66	'''Roman:''' I don't wanna hear it!\
67	'''Sidney:''' Because you ''choose'' to! There is no one else to blame! [...] ''Why don't you take some '''fucking''' responsibility?!'']]
68	* FryingPanOfDoom: [[spoiler:Half of Steven Stone's fate; the other half is being stabbed multiple times.]]
69	* HateSink:
70	** [[spoiler:Sidney's half-brother Roman Bridger, the killer of this film, is ultimately shown to be a self-entitled PsychopathicManchild who directly or indirectly orchestrated the killing sprees of the first three movies. His reasoning to do so is because Maureen rejected him for being a ChildByRape and a reminder of her trauma. After Sidney survives two killing sprees, at the expense of nearly having her life ruined by them, Roman goes on a final one in a bid for revenge, because he thinks he is [[EntitledBastard owed Sidney's fame and life]].]]
71	** [[spoiler:At face value, John Milton appears to be a representation of HorribleHollywood. Then it's revealed that he participated in Maureen Roberts' gang-rape, traumatizing her into promiscuous behavior. The gang-rape also resulted in [[BigBad Roman Bridger]], making Milton [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom indirectly responsible for all the events in the series]]. This marks him as one of the few [[AssholeVictim Asshole Victims]] in the films.]]
72	* HorribleHollywood: The film reveals that the entire series was the result of Sidney's mother Maureen Prescott's failed attempt to become a Hollywood actress, only to be forced into a CastingCouch gang rape by unscrupulous Hollywood producers.
73	%%* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: It's Roman's birthday.
74	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Milton claims to not recognize the name "Rina Reynolds," saying that he's had hundreds of actresses work for her. Gale points out that no one ever said she was an actress.
75	* TheIngenue: Angelina. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It's all just an act, though.]] Underneath this persona, she's actually [[NiceCharacterMeanActor a foul-tempered bitch]] who [[CastingCouch slept with the producer]] to get the role of Sidney in ''Stab 3''.]]
76	* IronicLastWords: [[spoiler:Milton's last words are bargaining with Roman for his life by offering him the final cut of any movie he might want to make -- something Roman says he already has, making his offer useless. Then Roman ''cuts'' Milton's throat.]]
77	* {{Jerkass}}: John Milton and Steven Stone. Honestly, most of the cast of ''Stab 3'' qualify to varying degrees, especially Tom. Jennifer turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold while Tyson is a TokenGoodTeammate.
78	* KickTheDog: Stone was already a {{Jerkass}}, but taunting "Dewey" over his dead sister is the moment you ''really'' realize what an asshole he is.
79	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Tom Prinze is killed when he uses his lighter to try and read the script, only for the house to blow up thanks to Ghostface tampering with the gas.]]
80	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
81	** Cotton Weary appears in the opening scene talking on the phone with his agent, complaining that the only gig he could get after getting a successful talk show is a cameo at the beginning of ''Stab 3'', which he calls a "cheap slasher flick".
82	** After Ricky voices his concerns with murders surrounding the ''Stab'' movies again after [[spoiler:Cotton is killed]], Sarah assures him that "we are not in any danger." Ricky then points out that "We are not in any danger" is a verbatim line of her character Candy on page 15 of the ''Stab 3'' script; the moment when Sarah says the line is exactly 15 minutes into the movie.
83	** The ''Stab 3'' cast can't predict their characters' fate since the script is being kept under wraps to avoid it being leaked on the Internet, with three different versions having been created. This happened during the production of ''Scream 2'', and ''may'' have led Craven & co. to change that movie's outcome: [[spoiler:in a leaked version, Derek and Hallie were the killers.]]
84	* LighterAndSofter: De-emphasized explicit violence in favor of humor, due to being made post-Columbine.
85	* LostInACrowd: The killer conceals their location by hiding in a rack of Ghostface costumes. [[spoiler:Sarah Darling finds this out the hard way.]]
86	* MadeOfIron: Randy's "trilogy rules" state that, at the ends of trilogies, the killers become supernaturally strong and tough, and can only be killed through [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]], [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic freezing]], or other extreme means. As it turns out, he's partly right. The killer is able to survive multiple gunshots, [[spoiler:because he's wearing a bullet-proof vest]].
87	* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:The Ghostface who turns out to have been TheManBehindTheMan for the one from the first movie reveals that he arranged for his biological mother to be murdered by his accomplice because he was revolted that he had been [[ChildByRape born of rape]], and deemed her a whore.]]
88	* MurderSimulators: One of the producers of ''Stab 3'' notes how violence in cinema has become a touchy subject recently; the unstated-yet-obvious cause of this is the fact that, a year before, the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre took place. They also speculate that Cotton's murder may have been by a deranged fan.
89	-->'''Milton:''' Detectives, there's no reason to presume that Cotton's death had anything to do with this movie, is there?\
90	'''Detective Wallace:''' He was making a movie called ''Stab''. [[DeadpanSnarker He was stabbed.]]
91	* NeverTheObviousSuspect: [[spoiler:Played straight in this film, in which the killer is not the obvious Angelina, Milton, or Kincaid, but instead is the mild-mannered Roman, who was last seen dead in a trunk. Funnily enough, Angelina ''was'' one of the killers [[WhatCouldHaveBeen in an early script]].]]
92	* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: In the beginning, Sidney is revealed to be living as a recluse, convinced it is the only way to stay safe from psychotic killers from coming after her, and killing those around her. She lives in the middle of nowhere, and locks and sets an alarm on her gate before locking and setting the alarm for her house. In the end, [[spoiler:she leaves her gate open behind her, and doesn't set the alarm for her house. When the wind blows the door open, she looks at it and walks away.]]
93	* TheOtherDarrin: In-universe, ''Stab 3'' sees the replacement of Tori Spelling as Sidney with Angelina Tyler and David Schwimmer as Dewey with Tom Prinze.
94	* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:Roman faked his death. In addition, Roman reveals that he is related to Sidney, and that he motivated Billy and Stu to kill Sidney's mother.]]
95	* PreMortemOneLiner:
96	** [[spoiler:When Roman has a knife to Milton's throat in the climax, Milton begs for mercy by offering him the chance to direct any movie he wants, with the last perk he mentions being "final cut". Roman's response?]]
97	--->[[spoiler:'''Roman:''' I already have it. ''[[SlashedThroat (slashes Milton’s throat)]]'']]
98	** [[spoiler:Sidney delivers one before stabbing Roman through the chest (although he jumps up shortly after and is instead killed by Dewey), playing off the title of ''Stab 3'' and the fact that she had just stabbed him through the back twice.]]
99	--->[[spoiler:'''Roman:''' Mother's dead. And there is nothing you can do about that. I still got to make my movie.\
100	'''Sidney:''' ''Stab 3'', right?]]
101	* PromiscuityAfterRape: [[spoiler:Roman]] blames his father for Maureen's promiscuity, believing it's the result of her having been gang-raped at one of his parties.
102	* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Tyson, who is stabbed, forced into a foot chase, lands on his neck when Ghostface pulls up the carpet, slammed into a glass cabinet, and finally thrown off a balcony.]]
103	* RedHerring:
104	** After Ghostface detonates Jennifer's house, [[spoiler:Angelina]] notably disappears and only reappears after Ghostface disappears, something the other survivors acknowledge. Later, Sidney finds her holding the Ghostface costume in a bathrooom stall. In addition, she once again disappears before Ghostface attacks Sidney on the set. [[spoiler:However, in an earlier script, Angelina indeed was one of the killers.]]
105	** [[spoiler:Milton]] also becomes a red herring due to his past affiliation with Maureen Prescott.
106	** [[spoiler:Detective Kincaid]] is implied a number of times to be the killer. After Ghostface manages to find Sidney's location and harass Sidney on the phone, it is implied that Ghostface found Sidney's phone number through Dewey's phone, which [[spoiler:Kincaid]] borrowed on one occasion. Furthermore, Sidney later discovers that [[spoiler:Kincaid]] kept a suspiciously in-depth file on her. To make matters worse, [[spoiler:Kincaid]] leaves the police station right before Ghostface attacks the other characters in the mansion and makes a dubious reappearance after Ghostface disappears from Sidney's sight.
107	** [[spoiler:Kincaid's partner Detective Wallace]] is also this. Since the previous films had a BigBadDuumvirate, it is natural to assume that if [[spoiler:Kincaid]] is Ghostface, then his associate is very likely the second Ghostface. During the third act, Sidney find it suspicious when [[spoiler:Kincaid shows up at Milton's mansion without Wallace in tow]].
108	** Downplayed in the case of [[spoiler:Jennifer]]. The film hints that Ghostface got Sidney's number through Dewey's phone, and [[spoiler:Jennifer]] was one of the few characters who borrowed Dewey's phone before Ghostface called Sidney's number.
109	* RememberTheNewGuy:
110	** Randy has a previously unmentioned sister named Martha, who arrives on the ''Stab 3'' set to give Sidney and co. Randy's tape for surviving horror trilogies.
111	** [[spoiler:Speaking of previously unmentioned siblings, the killer is Roman Bridger, who is Sidney's half-brother. However, in this case, it is justified, as the one person that did know his true identity, Maureen Prescott, wanted to start a new life and forget the past, which included Roman.]]
112	* RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:Roman Bridger reveals himself to be the one who engineered Maureen Prescott's murder, which Billy Loomis originally took credit for at the end of [[Film/Scream1996 the first film]], after he claims Maureen had an affair with her father that ultimately broke up their family. Roman explains to Sidney that he had revealed the existence of the affair to Billy, as well as providing tips on how to carry out the murder (Billy's later killings as Ghostface, however, were on his own initiative).]]
113	* {{Revision}}: This movie expands on the events in the first film. [[spoiler:Roman is the one who told Billy about Maureen and Hank's affair, inspiring him to conspire with Stu to kill her. This inspired them to continue their murders a year later, and makes him the one responsible for the entire movie series.]]
114	* RichSiblingPoorSibling: Roman sees this as having occurred between him and [[spoiler:his half-sister Sidney, which is why he stalked her, encouraged Billy and Stu's killing spree, and went on one of his own, because he was a ChildByRape who was given up to the foster system and rejected by Maureen, his and Sidney's mother.]] It's a case of an InformedAttribute and InformedPoverty, as Roman is a successful film director in the present. [[spoiler:Sidney]], meanwhile, doesn't actually seem to be very wealthy.
115	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Sarah Darling]] is part of the ''Stab 3'' cast, who make up most of the new characters. She is the first character to die after the ColdOpen.
116	* SacrificialLion:
117	** [[spoiler:Cotton]] was a major character in the previous movie, but here, he is just [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome an opening kill]] to demonstrate that AnyoneCanDie.
118	** Of the ''Stab 3'' actors, [[spoiler:Jennifer]] has the most screen time since she quickly befriends Dewey and Gale and aids them in finding the killer. Her death is thus the most traumatic for the main characters.
119	* SecretKeeper: Sidney is living as a recluse, convinced it's the only way to stay safe. The only people who know where she is are her father and Dewey.
120	* SelfDefenseRuse: [[spoiler:Roman's]] final plan is to pin the Ghostface murders on Sidney and make it look like he killed her in self-defense.
121	* SeriesFauxnale: This film was meant to be the concluding chapter of a trilogy. Instead, a [[TrilogyCreep fourth film]] was released eleven years later followed by a fifth and a sixth.
122	* SexSignalsDeath:
123	** Lampshaded by Randy, who taped a video [[spoiler:prior to his death [[CrazyPrepared just in case]], and blames what became his eventual death in the last film on the fact that he had sex with a female coworker at the video store he worked at.]]
124	** One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} instances ever: [[spoiler:Angelina]] gets killed ''seconds'' after [[spoiler:revealing that she [[CastingCouch slept with the producer]] to get the role]]. ''Damn'', do the rules strike fast! Doubles as a DeathByIrony, since [[spoiler:Angelina played FinalGirl Sidney in ''Stab 3'', and yet she herself failed to follow the rules that final girls are to obey (but then again, so did Sidney herself in the first film)]].
125	* ShoutOut: It has [[ShoutOut/{{Scream}} its own page]].
126	* ShutUpHannibal: The killer, [[spoiler:Roman, explains that he is Sidney's half-brother]], and fires off his reason why he committed the murders. Sidney then cuts him off, saying she's tired of all the bullshit that the killers she has encountered have told her, and says that all of the reasons she has heard are just pathetic excuses that the killers use to hide the fact that they kill people [[ForTheEvulz simply because they enjoy doing it]]. This leads to a rather large {{Villainous Breakdown}}.
127	* StageNames: It's revealed that Sidney's mother Maureen was a failed actress who went by Rina Reynolds. In the same scene, it's also revealed that Jennifer's real name is Judy Jurgenstern.
128	* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler:Tom Prinze is killed when he turns on his lighter to read a page of the script. Ghostface turned on the gas, and Tom winds up blowing himself (and the house he's in) up]].
129	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Cotton.]]
130	* TemptingFate:
131	-->'''Sarah:''' Guys, we are not in any danger.\
132	'''Tyson:''' "We are not in any danger," says Candy, page 15.
133	** Two in a row in the climax: [[spoiler:Sidney says of the killer, "He wasn't superhuman at all." ''Immediately'' after this, he leaps to his feet and tries to kill them one last time. The killer then screams at them "You can't kill me," and is shot in the head a few seconds later.]]
134	* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Played with. Disguised as [[spoiler:Dewey]], the killer has a phone conversation with [[spoiler:Jennifer Jolie's bodyguard]] while [[spoiler:he's looking through Dewey's trailer]]. When he insults [[spoiler:"Dewey's" inability to save his sister's life]] over the phone, the killer responds with "That makes me... angry!" (with a definitive emphasis of rage on that last word), while bursting in and stabbing [[spoiler:him]] in the back.
135	* ThemeNaming: A number of characters ({{Creator/Angelina\|Jolie}} [[Creator/LivTyler Tyler]], Creator/{{Jennifer\|Aniston}} [[Creator/AngelinaJolie Jolie]], Creator/{{Tom\|Cruise}} [[Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr Prinze]]) are named after real-life actors. Fitting, since the characters are actors themselves, and in Jennifer's case it's actually a {{stage name\|s}}.
136	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: When Dewey catches the killer by surprise, he retaliates by throwing his knife at Dewey...[[spoiler:though it's hilariously averted as the handle side hits him square in the forehead.]]
137	* TonightSomeoneDies: Randy mentions that the rules of the trilogy mean that someone big is going to die before it's over. [[spoiler:He's wrong, though, as Sidney, Gale, Dewey and even Kincaid all live, unless you count Cotton, who died before the taped will was even shown.]]
138	* TroubledProduction: InUniverse. Production on ''Stab 3'' is shut down (and ultimately canceled) when Ghostface starts targeting the cast.
139	* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Jennifer]] is stabbed twice and thrown through a glass pane in front of Gale and Dewey, but the stab wounds don't look fatal, and listening closely, she seems to be screaming ''after'' smashing through the glass but before hitting the floor, making it possible that she was just unconscious.
140	* VideoWill: [[spoiler:Randy's tape]], which also counts as TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat (somehow).
141	* WhamLine: From Ghostface, as their identity is revealed:
142	-->'''Ghostface/[[spoiler:Roman]]''': I searched for my mother, an actress named Rina Reynolds... searched for her my whole life. I finally tracked her down, knocked on her door, thinking she would welcome me with open arms... but she had a new life, a new name: [[spoiler:Maureen Prescott! You were the only child she claimed. Sid, she shut me out in the cold forever! Her own son. ''(takes off the mask, revealing who he is)'' Roman Bridger, director... ''(uses the voice changer)'' ...and brother.]]
143	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
144	** The film never explains how [[spoiler:Roman]] figured out Sidney's phone number. ([[spoiler:Angelina, if she is to be considered the second killer as it was filmed during 3/4 of production, could have easily taken Jennifer's phone sometime at the wrap party and passed the details onto Roman)]].
145	** [[spoiler:Roman faking his own death in a convincing manner]] is also never explained in the movie, although WordOfGod states that [[spoiler:Roman used a secret technique to stop his blood pulse]]. [[spoiler:Wes Craven tried to write dialogue explaining it, but he found all of the written material unnatural.]]
146	** Sidney discovers that [[spoiler:Kincaid]] keeps a suspiciously in-depth file on her, but it is never brought up again, even when [[spoiler:Kincaid visits her home at the end of the movie]]. With [[spoiler:Kincaid's]] innocence in mind, one can assume that it is merely part of [[spoiler:Kincaid's]] police work.
147	* WritersCannotDoMath:
148	** Wallace says, [[spoiler:"ten more murders and we can publish a calendar". There have been three murders already (Christine, Cotton, and Sarah), so it would be nine more murders. Wes Craven acknowledges this in the DVD commentary. Other Math fails include Angelina saying "Two people are dead" to Tom (again, three people died; excluding Christine due to the killer's pattern of killing in the order they die in ''Stab 3'' does not apply here either, as Angelina is making a moral stance about the crisis in general, not the killer's pattern.)]].
149	** [[spoiler:Upon revealing himself to Sidney, Roman says that he met and was turned away by their mother four years ago. If the movie takes place in 2000 , then that would place that at around 1996, the time of the first films events, when Maureen has already been dead for a year.]]
150	* WhereItAllBegan: The in-universe film "Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro" invokes it in its title.
151	* WildMassGuessing: The cast of ''Stab 3'', since they don't have the full scripts for the movie (to keep the ending from being leaked), indulges in this while on-set.
152	* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: This movie's Ghostface has a voice changer that can mimic anyone's voice, which would be fine if not for the fact that all the other voice changers in the series can only do one specific voice, and the fact that the ''Scream'' series is not ScienceFiction.

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