Home › Recommendation › Films To Watch › In honor of the 25th Anniversary, take a stab at the brand-new 4K UHD edition of “Scream 2.” identifiable knife, blade tip at the bottom. It is centered and vertically aligned. Faintly on the left is the film's title, also running vertically top to bottom, Two years have passed since the killings in Woodsboro. We now find the surviving cast members at Windsor College. Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) has been released from prison and is making the rounds, trying to cash in on his newfound stardom. Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) has written a best-selling novel, The Woodsboro Murders, which is being adapted into a film – Stab. But as the premiere date approaches, a new wave of murders start to occur on the college campus. Dewey (David Arquette) deduces that it’s a copycat killer, but there might be something a bit more sinister at work. Reuniting with Sidney (Neve Campbell) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy), they try to piece things together and catch the killer. Scream 2 comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray from Paramount Home Entertainment featuring 2160pHEVC encoded video and lossless DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound.

I always find it amusing when watching Scream 2 how the characters are discussing sequelitis in the opening act, complete with arguing over which sequels actually were better than the first. A rarity in film making, as most of the creative energy went into the first, and the second usually attempts to simply up the ante and max things out to level 11. While Scream 2 may not SUCCEED it’s originator, it most certainly ties it for best movie of the franchise. Not to mention it’s the film where the series starts to get even more meta than it had before, winking and nudging the audience along as it plays with horror and sequel tropes. The highlight is the Limited Edition Steelbook, which has a graphic design continuity with the one of the same category from the first film. Collectors and completists will love it! L-R: David Arquette as Dwight ‘Dewey’ Riley, Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks, and Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers in SCREAM 2. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Deleted Scenes– Just under 5 minutes of deleted scenes are shown with optional commentary by the above trio. I’m figuratively shrugging my shoulders as these didn’t offer much to the final product. Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, German DD 5.1, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin), French, Italian, Japanese DD 2.0offering a practically perfect filmic appearance that boasts a very fine grain structure, unlike the previous Blu-ray which was defined by a morass of thrilled, and there are few UHDs that prove so drastically better than their Blu-ray counterparts as this. Sadly, that speaks to the bad state in which There are no other source or encode issues to report. This is an A-grade catalogue UHD release from Paramount. Fans are going to be beyond Starring: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Timothy Olyphant, Jamie Kennedy, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Heather Graham, Sara Michelle Geller, Liv Schreiber

with "A Wes Craven Film" text also printed vertically above. On the rear panel are the words "Do you like scary movies?" scrawled center in a blendingdark gray color. The telephone seen at the film's open is lying on the floor, again very gray and blended. Small studio logos flank the bottom corners

For those not familiar with the details regarding Ultra HD Blu-ray you can refer to my article that includes some pertinent data on the subject. Here is the link: Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Swedish With the success of 1996’s Scream, there was never a doubt that we’d see a sequel. It’s a given. And given the “rules” of movie making, we knew that it was all about the trilogy (though, as years have passed we’d see another sequel and then a reboot). Some things never change. Scream was a hit because it poked fun at the genre that director Wes Craven helped create. By doing this, it opened up the door to do things that other films couldn’t. By these rules, sequels are supposed to be bigger, have a higher body count (assuming it’s a horror movie) and, in short, have everything be bigger and badder. And that’s what Scream 2 did. I’ll go on the assumption that the original has been seen, but on the off chance it hasn’t – I won’t ruin anything in this introductory paragraph.The slasher sequel screams its way to the Ultra HD campus with a generally satisfying and overall excellent HEVC H.265 encode, offering a nice step-up from its Blu-ray predecessor but is not the sort of night-and-day difference expected. To call this a vast improvement over the 2011 Blu-ray would be a gross understatement. Paramount's new 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release is stellar, nevertheless classy and speaks to the movie's style, albeit focused primarily on the famous opening sequence The front panel reveals the readily