and that weekend i watched the scream tetrology

Just so you know I had to google "if three is a trilogy what is four? and that is how I learned what a tetrology was. Could also be called a quartet, which should have been obvious, but I like the word tetrology, welcome to my vocabulary.

Random Friday night a few weeks ago, had the place to myself until Zack got home from work and I decided to watch Scream. Why? Because it is an absolutely brilliant cinematic adventure. It takes me back to fifth grade on my couch watching it with my four year old sister (who had already seen it AND knew who the killer was). I resorted to this because Hollywood Video had a huge wait list for it and somehow my sister was able to convince my dad to rent it. So that worked in my favor. It was one of the few summer days my mom had stayed home from work so we were all able to enjoy this epic horror adventure.

We watched, she gasped and screamed...a lot. We definitely did the title justice and I'm actually surprised I was able to watch the entire movie because I was still deeply scarred from Candyman.

Friday night than to re-live this moment of my youth. It was just as good as I remembered even if I can now obviously tell that the killers are Billy and Stu because obviously. Why stop there? Let's watch Scream 2.



Hell yes. Cameo's by Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) and a really warped looking Portia de Rossi. Seriously, her eyebrows were gnarly and she totally played a sorority chick that hung out with Dylan McKay's wife. What would Ellen say? Randy died in the van and Courtney Cox had awesome hair. There were also a million Friends references that I truly didn't appreciate when I saw that in theaters. Also, the killers in this movie are really stupid. The dude from Justified and Jackie from Roseanne? It didn't make sense then and it still doesn't know, but the beautiful part is that it didn't NEED to make sense, did it? It just was.



So why not spend Saturday night watching Scream 3? MCDREAMY as a cop? Somehow I'm okay with this. Patrick Dempsey is stuck in between weird looking Dempsey and McDreamy Dempsey so it's a little precious to be able to witness that. Of course I've always been Team Noel when all things Felicity are considered so right on for him trying to kill everyone in this movie. Again, the story line is totally bonkers but I think the killer was much better than in the sequel. I had totally forgot that he was Sidney's brother, too. And Courtney Cox had horrible bangs and they really needed to go away. And why did Cotton Weary have to die? He was the best. And we have the same photo in our houses.

So I couldn't not watch Scream 4. This movie was awful, but not awful enough for me to not enjoy. Then again, I typically love awful things so it works. I saw this in theaters as well and it definitely took me back to a simpler time. Poor Gail Weathers, I actually finally felt a little bad for her in this one. I didn't like Heather Graham getting all up in Dewey's biznazz either. And Adam Brody and that guy from Kangaroo Jack that I met at Sundance that one time's time was cut way too short. They should have lived and saved the day, but no they had to die. Other than that, the movie lives little to care about except that Sidney doesn't get to die she just gets to electrocute her cousin killer with the help of a good portion of the original cast. Pretty good for a final film I would say but part of me is still really hoping that there is more.

Scream tertrology marathons are the best and now I want to have more of them with popcorn, face masks and all of the above. Probably one of the few non-cheesy cheesy horror movie grouping things of all the times.