Welcome to the Kill Count, where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies. I'm James A Janisse and today
We're looking at Scream 4 released in 2011 and the last film directed by Wes Craven
Before his death in 2015 Scream 4 is a movie that by many accounts isn't necessary the original three films positioned themselves as an open-And-shut
Trilogy each installment commenting on tropes in the various stages of horror Franchise
why make a fourth film especially 11 years after the last one well because since
2000 when Scream 3 came out many horror classics were getting rebooted and remade and thought scream 4 was created to comment on what happens
When franchises are brought back from the dead?
It also comments on series that run themselves into the ground with the fictional staff franchise going on 7 installments at this point
Sydney gallon do we are reunited in the place where it all Began, woodsboro?
California and a brand new slew of Murders start cropping up rounding out the cast is a bunch of fresh young faces all eager to
Get killed speaking of which let's get to him
The movie Begins as many of the others do with a phone call
People were pals trudy and Sherri get harassed by our old pal ghost face after chatting about the current state of the horror Genre it
Sucks. It's not scary. It's gross
I hate all that
Torture porn shit in no time at all literally less than 4 minutes in to get kill ghost face jumped out and stabs trudy in
the chest with the only weapon
He's ever shown proficiency
And the hunting knife it was always a retractable blade in the original 3 but this film uses the CG blade instead
I never noticed the second ghost face pops out and split Sherry's throat
And then runs away letting her do a nice dramatic death slide in the corner as we're left wondering why neither of these actors were?
Well-known Stars kind of breaking the trend there aren't you scream for well?
Not actually because it turns out that this is stabbed 6 that's right none of that was real, but movies aren't real in general
So I'm still putting those kills on my list
Watching stab 6 are Rachel and Chloe who are played by two actors
We do know so that makes us feel a lot more at home in this series Rachel's not a big fan though talking mad shit
about stab ones articulate team sit around
Deconstruct foreign movies, we'll go to these children one by one it someone to death wait. That sounds a lot like
I'll scream for you Cheeky Meta bastard in either case
Chloe doesn't agree with
Rachel and to prove just how much she loves the stab film she stabs Rachel in the gut with a knife
Oh, and she does a little twist there too. That's brutal she stabs Rachel
Can't I'm in the same exact spot just to show that Kristen bell don't fuck around
Forget what you heard about honor?
And then wait what that was step 7 it watch stab dicks in the beginning of 7 7 what the fuck now that I don't
Know who are watching Trust in this movie?
It's hard for me to take these two new chicks seriously, but Jenny tells Marni that they live in Woodsboro
So I guess I should take her word for it or maybe I should since Marnie gets a phone call and it turns out
It's just jenny fucking with her combos cut short after marnie yells out over the phone and Jenny comes downstairs to find her phone on
The floor in the Lifehouse spooky scary Marnie's body then flies through the window giving us our first
Quote-unquote real kill in the movie looks like she was stabbed in the gut I mean that's a pretty safe bet
It's kind of the only thing ghostface does he popped in to say hello and chases Jenny up the stairs?
But since she doesn't keep bicycles on her staircase like any self-respecting horror film heroine
He manages to catch up with her and stab her in the back
She crawls away, but before she can get out of the garage
He crushes her with the door in an homage to
Tatum's death in the original he finally puts a real end to the real opening sequence of this movie with a trademark knife flash at
this point
I'm still so shook from those fake out beginning that I'm half expecting Wes craven to take off the ghost facemask put me the bird
And thanked me for my money, but no we're in it for real now in fact
We're back in woodsboro where there's ghosts faces hanging everywhere and very poor taste Sydney's here, too
But she's just visiting kicking off a book signing tour for her written experience of the scream
Situation do we on the other hand lives here, and it's finally become sheriff
He's got deputy of his own now deputy judy, and she definitely wants to get down and dirty with the deucer
You're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square
Yeah, maybe not technically
But I've seen gail in action enough times to know I wouldn't want to be on her bad side
even if she is having a hard time of it lately bored as hell in woodsboro quietly envious of Sydney's success and
experiencing a nasty bout of writer's block, but this is the old guard we're here to talk reboots and new ideas and
Jujubes like Sydney's Cousin jill she's headed to school with her friends the cool asker be played expertly by Hayden Panettiere and this chick
Olivia who happens to live next door to Jill Jill gets a call from Ghostface, and he asks her the same old question
Scary Mommy, so actually I guess you can forget what I said about fresh ideas
They get to school and talk to these weird book and cinema club nerds Robbie and Charlie
Robbie looks weird because he has a little headset webcam thing that he uses to livestream 24/7
How did he afford that bandwidth and Charlie looks weird because he's played by a caulking we also meet Jo's boyfriend
She's mad at him because plot read dude has no
Personality so don't feel bad if you lose him in the white bread section of the grocery store at Cindy's book signing
She reunites with gale and Dewey a round of hugs on the house
But when Dewey and Judy called a phone involved in last night's murders
It's discovered in the trunk of Sidney's rental car along with a knife and some bloody pictures the police get down to business
Doing what will surely be an in-depth
investigation and although gale wants to help FbD judy pulls a power move and doesn't let her this caused a bit of marital strife between
Gui can that be they're a couple men gooey, when Dewey refuses to budge gale decides to go rogue and get back to journalism
So she can get her groove back. Oh, and Anthony Anderson is here
Oh, hi, dude
Blackish is just a few years in your future that night
Sidney goes to hang out at Jill's house along with Jill's Mom Kate. Which would be Maureen's sister, right?
I'm on
350 right
Boyfriend guy appears in Jill's room freaking her out a bit and giving sidney some serious Billy Loomis vibes when she walked in on that
She says good night to jill and on her way to bed judy comes out of the shadows to get real creepy with Sidney telling
Her that they went to high school together and that she always noticed sid even if Sidney never noticed her
I know this is a classic scream move to make everyone look suspicious. Everybody that starts back yeah, Randy
I know all right
But I just feel like in this movie in the last one the writers went out of their way to make a bunch of characters
Weird red herring cuz yeah spoiler alert
Judy's not the killer also not the killer are these two cops who are staking out Jill's house to keep an eye on Sidney
Anthony Anderson's character perkins there's a little pervy though. She can live next to it a new dude
We just saw that chick come home from high school. She is a high school girl
You're like 40 doesn't stop the movie from giving us a gratuitous, bra shot though when Joe calls
Olivia to do a crappy Ghost face impression
Yeah, well Jill was chatting with Olivia on Kirby's phone Jill's phone gets a call and kirby answers that she thinks it's boyfriend guy
But turns out. It's ghost face who says he's hiding in the closet when they open it
They find it empty because as you may have guessed ghost face was talking about Olivia's closet
he jumps out and jill and Kirby see the attack from their bedroom window Olivia gets stabbed straight through the hand and kicked into a
Table Ghostface throws her around the room a bit before stabbing her in the back and throwing her on the bed
He goes to town on her stomach with his knife before finally tossing her through a window just for good measure
it's a decently bloody kill that takes it up a notch when Sydney comes next door to find Olivia's body with her insides on the
Outside Ghostface attacks, Sydney and Jill landing a slash on Jill's arm
But Sydney fights back like always also like always ghostface
Disappears as the cops arrive and some more like always the suspicious boyfriend shows up right after go safe from God scream has a play
Book and coach craven did not stray from those plays over at the hospital
Robbie and Charlie are doing their little stream thing when gayle confronts them asking to team up to figure this whole thing out they agree
Mostly because Robbie wants to take a trip to Cougar town
so going forward we'll have a nice alliance between new and
Well media of a certain age inside the hospital
Sydney fires her book agent Rebecca Walters because she is like scream one gale weathers level nasty cuckoos, but surgeons
Say days Rebekah pouts her way out to the parking garage talking to herself like a goddamn crazy person
Before her soliloquy is interrupted by a phone call guess who it is. It's ghostface when she tries to run back inside for safety
she discovers that ghost face too somehow locked the door and
also made that handle super weak so she strapped against the wall when he storms her and stabs her in the gut she takes a
While to slide down against the wall and die and if she wasn't fully dead then she definitely is after ghosts face Chuck's her from
The building and she crashes into this news man
Yeah Go ahead and check for a pulse there mountain dew II I'm thinking she loved it four stories up the next night
There's a stab movie marathon that Jill's not allowed to go to so she stays home and chats with Sydney about what it's like being
a final girl
Kirby goes to the Sabbath on though because I guess the city doesn't care about highly publicized parties where high schoolers go to get drunk
I do enjoy the people dressing like doing yale though real gals also
They're flipping into a ghostface math to pull her
Tried-And-true hidden camera trick putting a number of webcams all over the party barn when she gets to her car and starts logging though
She watches that their webcams get covered up by a good good good. Good ghost face
She heads back inside because she's got to get that drunk high school or footage
Oh, and then she finds a second camera
Not set up by her ghost face comes from behind and attacks her successfully stabbing her in the shoulder, AdJu
He shows up
And shoots ghost face away gal looks like she'll be just fine because there's no way this franchise has the guts to kill off courtney
Cox while doing a perimeter check
officer hoffs
notices that Jill's window is open when he goes back to officer perkins to relay the information ghostface runs up and stabs hoss in the
back it's a simple kill like most of these are and all it does is leave me wondering why they wasted Adam Brody in a
Two-bit Cop part that got killed so unceremoniously, and you're probably like dude
They're wasted Anthony Anderson - and you're right to some degree
I mean he is the next one dead when Gosei stabbed him in the forehead
But check it
Ghostface takes the knife out and
Perkins gets out of the car leading from his fucking brain he wobbled around for a little bit line in by Blood but still swinging
A few punches before finally falling down to his death this may seem improbable the craven based it on a real-life
Incident and I think it's freakin great inside the house
It is all jumpy and gets scared by Kate coming home from a grocery run and the most suspicious hour possible
This is the kind of shit
I'm talking about why would she be shopping right now, whatever the phone rings and sidney answers it and yeah of course
It's ghost face hey syd if you try not answering the phone sometimes, huh?
Maybe just let the machine get the next one ghostface threatens her family so she runs upstairs and finds Jill
It's flown the coop
Apparently picked up by Kirby to head to that part when sid and Kate try to piece out they're attacked by Ghostface
We they successfully lock out of the house
But Gospace still manages to stab Kate in the back through the mail slot
And mail slots and landline phones this may be a modern upgrade to the franchise
But part of its always going to be stuck in the 90s judy shows up
but sid doesn't trust her so she
GtFo is to go find Jill Jill's chilling with Charlie and Robbie at Kirby's house, and hey look who's here the
The boyfriend character guy he claims jill texted him to come over
But she says no no no she ain't got her phone
She leaves the room to go get it with boyfriend guy leaving shortly after because who done it's only worse when characters are split up
And in constant motion Charlie and Kirby continue their movie marathon and go to make out before boyfriend guy interrupts em. Thanks, dude
just because you can't get any doesn't mean you got a cock watch Charlie storms off with Blue balls while Hayden Panettiere sits on the
Couch and does some amazing face acting solidifying herself as the most enjoyable new person in the cast get out of my house
Meanwhile Robbie's out back drunkenly vlogging when ghostface comes out of the house and stabbed him in the chest he tries to run away
But ghostface catches up to him getting him once more in the back and knocking him to the ground
Robbie Tries a bullshit excuse to survive
Okay, okay
But it doesn't work because obviously ghostface stabs him once more and Robbie ends up stumbling to his death on the front porch
I don't know where they came up with the whole gay people live and reboot thing
But it seemed pretty forced right before Robbie died Sidney showed up
So she jill and kirby are now on the run from ghost Phase Jill hides underneath the bed upstairs
While Cindy and Kirby end up running into the basement Charlie shows up outside the basement patio door but Sidney admonishes kirby not to let
Him in if she can't trust him so he's left out in the cold as ghosts face attacks then and then as Sidney and kirby
Wash the screen cuts to black was that supposed to be him turning off the lights like what light?
He made it pitch-Black Da man
That was a simple editing cut and it feels real cheap there the lights come back up aKa the editor dissolved back into a shot
And Charlie's tied up in a very or thean fashion Cindy runs off to try to take care of business while Kirby plays ghost faces?
Trivia games she thinks that she answered his brainbuster correctly so she goes outside and unties Charlie, so everything's great right wrong
He's totally fuckin stabbed her in the stomach oh Charlie the ghost burns
Oh, shit, Charlie gives her his reason where he here's some classes together you notice me now showing. He's just one of those classic
Whiny nice guys and he stabs her again and tosses her body down to the interestingly?
Enough Wes Craven himself Said Kirby was a possible survivor
But in light of his passing and my hopes that they won't continue the franchise without him
I'm just going to add her to our list back inside Charlie attacks did and hold the knife to her throat she gets away
But then another ghostface stabs are in the gut and he guesses on who it is anyone last chance
It's jill I saw coming, but maybe I was the fun twist for you Jill and Charlie have been recording all their kills
and they're going to upload them and make them traceable the boyfriend guy who they're planning on framing because you know framing someone is just
part of the Scream Handbook
And we do not stray from the handbook when making a screen jill finally ends boyfriend guys boyfriend life by shooting him and his boyfriend
dig ouch that's got a boyfriend hurt, and she puts one in his head making our 13th kill uh
Sorry, what was it again, man?
Travis Trey V whatever boyfriend guy Charlie a jill are getting really into the whole reboot angle really innocent victims
Sydney and Randy your whole thing is that they want to be famous?
And they think surviving a murder spree that people have seen video footage of will make them America's darlings
Or some shit Charlie hate to break it to you. You're never going to be anyone's darling
That is not a happy jail face to pay even more amash to the original movies Charlie and Jill bring back the classic Billy Stu
Stabby stab fun times to make themselves look like victims Charlie sykes himself up to get stabbed in the shoulder
but jillian playing around and she stabs Charlie straight in the heart turns out her plan is to make Charlie seem like one of the
Killer's after all and be famous all on her own
Tough break Charlie but for someone so well steeped in the mythos of these movies
You should have known the second federal villain always gets backstabbed jill steps it in the gut again and she falls down and I actually
Thought maybe they killed her, but nope they didn't spoiler
Then jill goes around methodically making herself look like a survivor
And it's kind of fun to watch she scratches her face and pulls out her hair with boyfriend hands and stabs herself against the wall
with the knife and if that wasn't enough
She smashes her head against the picture and fucking stage dives into a glass table before finally collapsing next to sydney for a really nice
Facebook cover photo do we and Judy finally arrived seeing all the carnage and getting take your hat off level staff Jill was carted out
On a stretcher where she gets a taste of the adoration and fame she's always wanted
But she comes off her high in the hospital when the dew meister drops this bombshell on her sydney
Just like he leaves her bedside and Jill wastes. No time sneaking into Sydney's room to finish the job and because this is scream
She has to make a horror movie reference as she does it so are you?
Fucking liars they wrestle around the hospital room for a little while Jill being a real b
and punchin stood in her gut wound and when do we rushes in to save her he gets a fucking beatdown from Jill with a
Bedpan wow he gets his ass whupped just be thankful
It was empty dude Galland Judi both show up, but jill holds them off at gunpoint even shooting judi just for shits and giggles
Distracts her cindy grabs the defibrillators and starts charging them up gail. Yes, answer and set sidney up for a punch line here
clear
Clear Joe Gets 360 joules to the fucking dome and collapses onto the floor
I know Joe was pretty dead right there, but she is smoking no literally
There's smoke coming off of her don't call me an axel besides. She's not even really dead
She grabs a shard of glass and comes behind Sydney for one last attack
but Sydney shoots her by now a
Seasoned veteran of the Killer's last Hurrah at these movies
just loves to comment on part of the playbook sydney lies down next to jill and a cute mirror version of that earlier shot with
Jill the Dead one this time our 15th and final victim yep, just 15 because Judi still alive
I know you were so worried about it right outside the reporters give jill the praise she fought and killed for not knowing that she's
Dead and also
You know a murder an ironic ending perfect for an ironic series that was always commenting on itself and now is the part where I?
exit the frame and a silly way to do the numbers, or do I I do
Esteem people died in scream for significantly more than any of the original trilogy even though three of the killers were
fictional characters in a kill count first more women were killed than men
Attended the victims female and only five of the male a pretty stark gender imbalance though again three of those were in movie characters
With the runtime of 110 minutes scream 4 had a kill on average every 7.3 minutes by far
the most frequent of the series
I'll give the golden Chainsaw for coolest death to officer Perkin Olivia almost took it with her display of intestinal fortitude
I'm a sucker for
Reality that stranger than fiction and the fact that this happened in real life makes it way more powerful to me doll
Machete for Laymen kill is going to go to Perkins his partner
Hawk a single stab to the back put that guy down
And that's just a waste of a death and there you have it another
Series wrapped on the kill Cam with the conclusion of scream 4 I liked it a lot more than scream 3 but it still felt
like it was more of a cliche than it was a
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