History YMMV / Scream

** The killer in the fourth film, [[spoiler:Jill Roberts]], is arguably the most monstrous character in the series. [[spoiler:She lacks even the {{Freudian excuse}}s and {{revenge}} motivations that Billy, Mrs. Loomis and Roman had (her mother appears to be loving, if somewhat aloof), with her motivation being nothing more than fame and fortune.]] And unlike [[spoiler:Mickey]] in the second film (who was also looking to become famous), [[spoiler:she's the mastermind of the killings rather than just the main killer's accomplice.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Billy and Stu, the original Ghostfaces.]] Stabbing, taunting and gutting people apart, [[spoiler: they're also the responsables for the death of Sidney's mother]].

** The killer in the fourth film, [[spoiler:Jill Roberts]], is arguably the most monstrous character in the series. [[spoiler:She lacks even the {{Freudian excuse}}s and {{revenge}} motivations that Billy, Mrs. Loomis and Roman had (her mother appears to be loving, if somewhat aloof), with her motivation being nothing more than fame and fortune.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Already, people are saying that [[HaydenPanettiere Kirby]] was the best character in the fourth film.

** In the fourth film, [[spoiler:Jill Roberts]] goes on a killing spree so that [[spoiler:she can... become famous like her cousin Sidney, who she's lived in the shadow of her whole life]]. Like [[spoiler: Roman Bridger she kills her own mother (in Jill's case directly)]] and is arguably ''even more'' of a monster [[spoiler: since unlike Roman Jill lacks even the FreudianExcuse of being rejected by her mother who appears to be loving if oblivious.]]

** In the fourth film, [[spoiler:Jill Roberts]] goes on a killing spree so that [[spoiler:she can... become famous like her cousin Sidney, who she's lived in the shadow of her whole life]].

* HamAndCheese: Matthew Lillard. [[spoiler:And Emma Roberts possibly]].

* HamAndCheese: Matthew Lillard.

** Sidney's ShutUpHannibal to [[spoiler:Roman]] also implies the Fexcuses of all the killers are just that, excuses they use to cover for themselves but in truth, they just enjoy killing people. If she's right, all the Ghostfaces were this.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Billy and Stu, the original Ghostfaces.]]

* HypeBacklash[=/=]LoveItOrHateIt: A lot of horror fans, especially those from TheEighties, see this film as having killed the horror genre, feeling that it made it impossible to take seriously anymore while causing studios to target their horror products more at teenagers. [[YourMIleageMayVary Others]], however, believe that it saved the genre from the burnout that it experienced in the early '90s, creating a new generation of horror fans.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: A fourth ''Scream'' movie, after how much the third one sucked, and a decade after the films were last relevant? Puh-leezzz... wait, Kevin Williamson is coming back to write it? Time to mark April 15 on the calendar, this is gonna be ''awesome!'' [[hottip:*:Some explanation -- Williamson wrote the first two ''Scream''s, but not the third. Guess which one is the BlackSheep of the original trilogy.]]

** And [[http://www.joblo.com/arrow/index.php?id=26044 this international trailer]] seems to have gotten the fans pretty pumped, judging by the comments.

* {{Narm}}: Jada Pinkett's... operatic death in the opening of the second movie. Hilariously spoofed in the first ''ScaryMovie''

* HypeBacklash[=/=]LoveItOrHateIt: A lot of horror fans from the '80s see this film as having killed the horror genre, seeing as how it made [[TheEighties '80s]] [[SlasherMovies slashers]] impossible to take seriously anymore. [[YourMIleageMayVary Others]], however, believe that it saved horror from the burnout that it experienced in the early '90s, creating a new generation of horror fans.

* ContestedSequel: There is quite a bit of argument as to which sequel is better than the other. It's agreed by many that [[FirstInstallmentWins the first film is the best]], although there's a camp (which includes, among others, Richard Roeper) who would give this title to the second film instead.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: A fourth ''Scream'' movie, after how much the third one sucked? Puh-leezzz... wait, Kevin Williamson is coming back to write it? Time to mark April 15 on the calendar, this is gonna be ''awesome!'' [[hottip:*:Some explanation -- Williamson wrote the first two ''Scream''s, but not the third. Guess which one is the BlackSheep of the original trilogy.]]

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: A fourth ''Scream'' movie, after how much the third one sucked? Puh-leezzz... wait, Kevin Williamson is coming back to write it? Time to mark April 15 on the calendar, this is gonna be ''awesome!''[[hottip:*:Some explanation -- Williamson wrote the first two ''Scream''s, but not the third. Guess which one is the BlackSheep of the original trilogy.]]

* ContestedSequel: While few would rank either of the sequels as [[FirstInstallmentWins being a better film than the original]], there is quite a bit of argument as to which is better than the other.