offering a practically perfect filmic appearance that boasts a very fine grain structure, unlike the previous Blu-ray which was defined by a morass of well defined, and refined 4K image is obvious; fans who have been living on the decade-old Blu-ray will find this to be a very welcome addition to Every one of the well-meaning cast and crew are so enamoured by the minutiae of how they’ve painstakingly and slavishly recreated the look, the locations, the shots, the everything of the first film, even down to the directors of this – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – telling us with huge smiles that when they didn’t know what to do, they’d just watch the first film and ‘do their version of that’, that it soon becomes obvious this is more than just a basic remake of the first film.

And so, with the benefits of time and a healthy sense of getting over ones-self, do Sid, Gail and Dewey get the send-off they deserve? Not quite…but it’s clear to see that underneath that misguided comedy tone, there is a clever and intelligent commentary trying to get out and now, with nearly a quarter of a century to get over that initial disappointment felt so keenly on release, it’s an awful lot easier to see the positives in what really should have been the trilogy capper for this still-fantastic cast of characters. Like its predecessors, Scream 3 was shot on 35mm film using Panavision Panaflex Platinum cameras and Panavision C-Series lenses, capturing the images anamorphically. This disc uses a new 4K restoration of the film’s original camera negative and creates another wonderful native 3840 x 2160p resolution image with the original aspect ratio of 2.39:1 faithfully preserved using a 10-bit video depth, both High Dynamic Range flavours (HDR10 and Dolby Vision) and encoded using the HEVC (H.265) codec. 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, Comedy had always been a big part of the previous entries, but it never felt overt, coming more from the combination of smart characters and the situation they were placed in. Here though, not only do you have Parker Posey pratfalling like in a Jim Carrey movie, but shoe-horned in cameos from the likes of Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob hint at a level of smug-satisfaction, likely driven by studio honchos The Weinstein’s basking in the reflected glory of their golden goose and their place atop the Hollywood hills...granted these are almost blink and you'll miss ‘em, but it’s enough to show that Craven (or possibly new writer Ehren Krueger, replacing franchise stalwart Kevin Williamson) had completely changed his mind set to the prominent tone of the whole film.Scream film) at this original film's legacy, its novelty, influences of Halloween and Williamson's own experiences in life, the Ghostface Paramount brings Scream to the UHD format with most of the legacy extras from the 2011 disc (note the absence of a trailer collage) and artificially sharped and actually made to look worse. At this resolution, and with this master, the image capably reveals exact textures and fine point

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

over the 2011 disc which appeared, based on the Blu-ray.com screenshots, grossly processed. This is a well-rounded Having said all that, for every individual element of the image that is really solid, it never quite stands out as a top tier 4K image. There’s no searing bright HDR highlights, no mega-saturated colours to tantalise the eyeballs with, almost nothing to get that excited about whatsoever from a purely visual standpoint. Through no fault of its own, the image’s own sense of realism means we almost overlook how good it really is.

If you want horror movies, October is the month for you. Tons of horror releases (and 4K horror re-releases) are heading our way in October, including a bunch of Screams, The Mist, Friday the 13th, Rosemary's Baby, and the Shrek 6-film collection. Kidding about that last one! Deleted Scenes (SD, 14 min) — With an optional commentary by Craven, Maddelena and Lussier, the collection is mildly interesting but adds little value to the movie. Behind the Scenes Montage (SD, 6 min) — A set of clips from all three movies, pieced together for no real purpose. Being the last of the 'Scream' series, part three looks expectedly better on Blu-ray than the first two, but it's still far from what it could be. amongst the true highlights here, revealing deep and intense color detail for nighttime exteriors, shadowy corners, and of course the Ghostface

of its darkly humorous glory. The picture may not achieve the level of 2160p perfection as the best of the best on the market, but the feel for a solid, Q&A with Cast and Crew: Included are What's Your Favorite Scary Movie? and Why Are People So Fascinated By Horror 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 details inherent to the original material; faces, clothes, buildings and natural elements around campus, as well as odds and ends inside homes, all underneath that misguided comedy tone, there is a clever and intelligent commentary trying to get out...

clothes but extending to various environments, such as kitchens, bedrooms, classrooms, and other critical plot locations where the story unfolds in all

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The Dolby Vision color grading does not push tones to the extreme, but natural greens are appropriately deep and vibrant, as is a yellow school bus, Sadly, it misses Wes Craven. With him at the helm, another entry would have continued to be about something else. But without him, it now becomes about him. Which, while noble, robs the film of being anything other than a soulless remake, with none of the rich vein of humour or depth that made the first film so unique and special. Nearly thirty years after the first film coined the term ‘meta’ and we’re still asked to think that naming characters after horror directors is clever? It's sad really when the first two movies in a series( Scream, Scream 2)start off strong — full of laughs as well as smarts — but the last entry ends the entire franchise with a whimper. The laughs and smarts are still there, but it all adds up to a silly conclusion that takes fans to a deep, dark past. It's a plot twist that comes completely out of left field and seems far too convenient to ever be taken seriously. Then again, according to Randy (Jaime Kennedy) in a posthumous video recording, all bets are off in trilogies. The rules don't apply because the point is to explore a deep, dark past, something that changes everything we know about the slasher series. Hence, Scream 3 fails to meet the expectations set by the previous two.