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The horror genre scenario has changed quite a bit since the events of Scream 3. What we found nowadays is a ridiculous amount of remakes…

“Cause all there are now are remakes. Only horror studios green-light. I mean, there are still rules, but the rules have changed. The unexpected is the new cliche.”

– Charlie Walker, Scream 4

Halloween, uh, Texas ChainsawDawn of the DeadThe Hills Have EyesAmityville Horror, uh, Last House on the LeftFriday the 13thA Nightmare On Elm StreetMy Bloody ValentineWhen A Stranger CallsProm NightBlack ChristmasHouse of WaxThe FogPiranha. It’s one of those, right? Right?

– Kirby Reed, Scream 4

By looking at this perspective, Scream 4 is at the same time a sequel, a reboot and a subversive remake. Even the new generation of characters bring a pattern to the original: Jill (Sidney), Kirby (Tatum/Randy), Trevor (Billy), Charlie (Stu/Randy), Robbie (Randy), Judy (Dewey) and Rebecca (Gale). In the end, we discover that things were nothing we’ve been imagining…

The scene where Kirby says that her favorite scary movie is Bambi (1942), mirrors the scene in Scream 2 (1997) where Randy tells the killer that his favorite scary movie is Showgirls (1995).

Dewey’s ringtone is the theme of Beverly Hills Cop (1984). Axel Foley’s Theme even made into the soundtrack!

“Stab is the wrong franchise for her, it should be Final Destination.”

Olivia Morris on Sidney Prescott, Scream 4

Williamson’s script takes us back on track with the references – to the slashers and thrillers! To the very beginning actually, by referencing the first one, Peeping Tom (1960) – were the killer films his murders.

Then, the usual homage to Hitchcock, mentioning Psycho (1960) and reimagining a scene from Rear Window (1954) – that happens when Jill and Kirby witness the murder of Olivia – and finally baptizing a character after Anthony Perkins (Deputy Perkins, played by Anthony Anderson).

Charlie asks Kirby who played Leatherface first, responding with Gunnar Hansen. The killer asks Kirby what weapon Leatherface uses in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), responding with chainsaw. He also asks Freddie Krueger’s weapon, referencing Nightmare on Elm Steet (1984).

DVDs of the following movies can be seen: SuspiriaRush Hour 2Cabin FeverClerks IIAutomaton TransfusionTeethMeet The RobinsonsFinal DestinationAvatar and Die Hard.

The prop department did a beautiful job by adding this like the posters of VertigoThe ExorcistThe Hills Have EyesDawn Of The DeadKing KongThe ThingBlood SimpleBrazilTremorsTroll 2Army Of DarknessThe Green MileStab 3Final Destination 2Wolf CreekFeastDeath ProofZombie Strippers!Hellboy IIZack & Miri Make A PornoHalloween II and Piranha 3D on the cinema club wall. Jill’s room also have a few horror posters: Creature From The Black Lagoon and An American Werewolf In London. Kirby’s room has the posters of Nosferatu and Rear Window.

The following TV Show are mentioned: Top ChefPunk’dDatelineToday and The View.

Goofs

– Sheriff Riley and his deputies wear six-point stars as a badge, yet on the sleeves they have seven-point star patches. In any real Sheriff’s department one or the other might be used but never both. The uniform insignia would match the badge.

– At the beginning of the movie, when Gale is sitting in front of her 6th generation Apple iMac, instead of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, it’s got OS X 10.4 Tiger installed. Every 6th gen iMac came preinstalled with Snow Leopard.

– When Gale is typing at her computer, she continues to press keys even though the screen shows that she had finished the sentence she was writing.

– During the “Stabathon”, when “Stab” is playing, the scenes are out of sequence. The first scene shown is the popcorn burning, then the shower scene. The shower scene is supposed to be in the opening sequence, before the popcorn burning scene.

– When the girl crawls away from Ghostface while bleeding, he moves to the garage door controls to close the door while she’s crawling under it. We see a shot of the girl crawling, and in the last second before the camera shifts, the garage door starts to go down seconds before the camera switches to Ghostface hitting the “Close” button on the controls.

– When Jenny hangs up and goes toward the stairs to check what happened to Marnie, she’s holding her phone on her left hand. In the next shot, her phone had disappeared.

– When deputy Hoss gets stabbed in his back, there is no sound of the knife being taken from his body and the knife which appears in the next clip has no blood stains on it.

– During the opening, when Jenny is talking with the killer (just before Marnie is thrown through the back-porch door) she is clearly standing in the kitchen and by the stairs, but when Marnie’s body flies through, Jenny is back in the living room by the door.

– When Jill and Charlie reveal themselves Jill has a knife in her hand. Then she goes to Charlie and it’s gone and he hands her a knife to stab him with.

– When Charlie shows Sydney the footage of Ghostface stabbing the girl in her bed on the cell phone, it completely contradicts the earlier shot of Jill removing the camera from the 1st person perspective from inside the mask.

– When Gale, is home working on her computer there is a plate of toast on the desk, the amount of toast changes between shots.

– When Sidney, runs to Olivia’s house she walks into the blood splattered room. Sydney runs her hand down the blood covered door frame. None of the blood smudges or goes onto her hand. If the murder had just happened the blood would have went onto her hand, and smeared down the door frame

– When Kirby is on the phone to Jill, as she approaches ‘Stab fest’ party, Her iPhone is clearly on the contacts list and not on call mode. iPhone screens are blank during phone calls when up against the ear.

– When deputy Perkins is stabbed in his forehead and starts walking out of the police car, it is obvious that the stains all over his police uniform are not blood stains.

– When Charlie and Jill reveal themselves, Charlie points to Jill with his knife, indicating her to be the “new” Sidney. When he points to himself, you can see the ridge where the fake blade retracts, showing it to be a prop safety knife.

– When Sidney is unpacking her aunt’s groceries, the box of cereal has already been opened and closed back shut.

– Continuity: When Chloe is stabbed, the blood coming out of her mouth appears and disappears between shots.

– Continuity: Jill is stood holding the gun and the knife and is waving the knife in Sidney’s face. But, when her and Charlie go to stab each other she’s only holding the gun and he passes her the knife.

– Continuity: When Charlie holds his iPhone up to Sidney to show his murder footage, he’s holding it with his hand vertically with his thumb on the bottom and four fingers on top. In the next shot when Sidney watches it, he’s holding it up to Sidney with his hand horizontally: using only his thumb, index, and middle finger.

– Continuity: When Jill dies, she falls face-down. However, the last shot of her face shows her body supine and face-up.

– Continuity: When Rebecca is running towards the exit door in the parking garage, there is an exit sign on the door. When she gets stabbed, the sign had disappeared, and the cars are parked in another way.

– Factual errors: When Jill comes into Sidney’s hospital room she pulls out the call bell cord before Sidney can call for help. In any hospital if you pull out the cord it sounds an alarm to call for help as well, yet no alarm was heard.

– Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When at Kirby’s house after Sheriff Riley interrupts the Stabathon, Charlie says he will watch Stab 7, and puts on the DVD. But when we see the film playing later, it is the girls from the opening scene, the ones with the Facebook-stalker, which was revealed to be Stab 6. Yet as discussed by Jenny and Marnie in the ‘true’ opening, the beginning of Stab 7 had Rachel and Chloe watching Stab 6 and criticizing it.

– Revealing mistakes: When Jill examines the blood from her cheek after using Trevor’s hand to scratch it, Trevor’s stomach can be seen faintly breathing, even though he has been killed.

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