How Does the Scream 4 Trailer Stack Up to Its Predecessors on the Hip-O-Meter?
Scream 2
Guiding Marketing Principle:
More, more, MORE! More elaborate deaths, more self-reflexive winks and jokes and more characters! Ghostface even has a more menacing voice!
Rules:
1. The body count is always bigger.
2. The death scenes are always much more elaborate.
Pop Culture References:
Showgirls
Ghostface One-Liners:
"Hellllloooo Sidney!"
"It's time, girlfriend!"
"Don't you know history repeats itself?"
"I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"
"Do you want to die tonight?"
Fails:
At least two of those one-liners, plus the sort-of-lame Showgirls joke at the end. But it gets points for that awesome montage of all the characters and the glimpse of the movie Stab.
Hip-O-Meter Rating: 4
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Comments
One big fail on the Scream 4 trailer though, a HUGE one in fact : way TOO MUCH informations. You can already see a few of the victims and the way they die, which is a huge turn off....
Hard to say - every time I thought they were making a joke or setting up a fake scare, Ghostface popped out! So maybe in the real movie, they turn that on its head even more and NO ONE DIES IN ANY OF THOSE SCENES.
No, but really there's always so much of a chase and struggle in these movies for every kill, I'm not sure some quick cuts of ghostface about to go in with a knife actually spoil anything substantial.
I get what you're saying Brian, but a particular scene clearly show one of the character getting stab (i'm not talking about Gale) and then the same character falling on a van... Plus the fact that we now know how ghostface is going to attack the blonde girl and the brunette one, the cops, etc...
I'm sure not everybody is going to notice/remember what they saw in the trailer when they'll watch the movie, but still, it's a downer :/
Yeah, I feel you. I'll take a few spoilers over the utter incoherence of the Scream 3 trailer though.