After nearly a decade, the Scream franchise has unveiled its latest project with its fourth installment. The movie follows the typical plotline of all the other movies; Sidney Prescott returns to her childhood home of Woodsboro to promote her latest self-help book. Coincidentally, Sidney's presence back at Woodsboro starts a chain of murders that both mimic and contradict the original pattern of murders - shocking. There, Sidney reunites with local celebrity has-been Gale Weathers - played by the still gorgeous and sassy Courtney Cox - as well as the town idiot turned sherrif Dewey Riley - played by David Arquette. Though the movie peaked at moments with its meta-humor of making fun of itself, ultimately the movie lacked the suspense and originality of the first film. Every time there was an opportunity for somebody to be killed ... they usually did. The strange and disturbing part was that nobody really seemed to mind or care about the striking number of deaths - it's amazing that anybody is still alive in that town. Repeatedly, the merry band of teenagers - who were invariably going to be killed at some point, just a matter of the order - received countless calls from the killer on their dead friends' phones and no one seemed alarmed, more annoyed than anything. The police force, consisting of four cops, did little to solve or prevent the deaths of everybody in the town. 

There were two practically poignant moments that stood out to me in the movie. One, a cop gets stabbed through his skull and manages to get out of his car, stumble around for a bit - as he is oozing blood - and then delivers a final witty comeback before collapsing on the ground. The other was "ghostface" is about to kill the nerdy/AV kid and he pretends to be gay because he feel that will protect him from the killer ... and that didn't end too well for him.

To be perfectly honest one of the best part of the entire movie was Hayden Panettiere's hair. It was beyond fierce and I feel suites her so much better. Her brassy character in the movie was actually enjoyable to watch. Overall, the movie didn't necessarily provide the closure I was seeking but was entertaining none the less - however, it wasn't worth $9.75. Wait until it comes to Redbox.