Scream 4
Stream
Rent & Buy
Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
What critics thought
Scream 4 landed in mixed-to-average territory on release, with critics split over whether its self-aware meta-commentary still had teeth or had simply calcified into the very formula it once mocked. Those who liked it pointed to sharp dialogue and genuine twists; those who didn't argued the irony had curdled into laziness. In the years since, opinion has shifted — many now credit the film with eerily prescient commentary on social media fame-seeking that wasn't fully appreciated in 2011.
“relying on obvious clichés doesn't seem ironic anymore, just easy.”
The New York Daily News
“this installment is nowhere near the hip, serrated-edge blast of newness the original was in 1996. Suddenly, it's the horror thriller that, like, your parents are excited about”
Toronto Sun
“It's a giddy reminder of everything that made Scream such a fresh scream in the first place”
Lisa Schwarzbaum·Entertainment Weekly
“Scream 4 finds a way to live up to its gory past while it carves out new terrors in new ways.”
Betsy Sharkey·Los Angeles Times
“pays plenty of homage to their 1996 original”
Lisa Kennedy·Denver Post
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Cast & Crew
Wes CravenDirector
Neve CampbellSidney Prescott
David ArquetteDewey Riley
Courteney CoxGale Weathers-Riley
Emma RobertsJill Roberts
Hayden PanettiereKirby Reed
Erik KnudsenRobbie Mercer
Rory CulkinCharlie Walker
Marley SheltonDeputy Judy Hicks
Anthony AndersonDeputy Perkins
Adam BrodyDeputy Hoss
Mary McDonnellKate Roberts
Alison BrieRebecca Walters
Marco BeltramiComposer
Kevin WilliamsonWriter
Peter DemingCinematographyScream 4
Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
What critics thought
Scream 4 landed in mixed-to-average territory on release, with critics split over whether its self-aware meta-commentary still had teeth or had simply calcified into the very formula it once mocked. Those who liked it pointed to sharp dialogue and genuine twists; those who didn't argued the irony had curdled into laziness. In the years since, opinion has shifted — many now credit the film with eerily prescient commentary on social media fame-seeking that wasn't fully appreciated in 2011.
“relying on obvious clichés doesn't seem ironic anymore, just easy.”
The New York Daily News
“this installment is nowhere near the hip, serrated-edge blast of newness the original was in 1996. Suddenly, it's the horror thriller that, like, your parents are excited about”
Toronto Sun
“It's a giddy reminder of everything that made Scream such a fresh scream in the first place”
Lisa Schwarzbaum·Entertainment Weekly
“Scream 4 finds a way to live up to its gory past while it carves out new terrors in new ways.”
Betsy Sharkey·Los Angeles Times
“pays plenty of homage to their 1996 original”
Lisa Kennedy·Denver Post
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Cast & Crew
Wes CravenDirectorNeve CampbellSidney PrescottDavid ArquetteDewey RileyCourteney CoxGale Weathers-RileyEmma RobertsJill RobertsHayden PanettiereKirby ReedErik KnudsenRobbie MercerRory CulkinCharlie WalkerMarley SheltonDeputy Judy HicksAnthony AndersonDeputy PerkinsAdam BrodyDeputy HossMary McDonnellKate RobertsAlison BrieRebecca WaltersMarco BeltramiComposerKevin WilliamsonWriterPeter DemingCinematographyStream
Rent & Buy