{"id":5840,"date":"2013-04-27T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:15:55","slug":"scream-2-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/scream-2-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream 2 is a self-fulfilling prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s nowhere else the Scream<\/em> franchise could have gone other than here: an ironic, self-aware sequel to an ironic, self-aware horror film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When one the characters states “Sequels suck! Oh please, please! By definition alone, sequels are inferior films!”, it’s something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. There’s a fine line between winking at your audience and just throwing up your hands and admitting your new movie can’t measure up to the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nowhere else the Scream franchise could have gone other than here: an ironic, self-aware sequel to an ironic, self-aware horror film. When one the characters states “Sequels suck! Oh please, please! By definition alone, sequels are inferior films!”, it’s something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. There’s a fine line between winking at your audience and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[1992,90,1998,1341],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-stars","category-movies","tag-1992","tag-horror","tag-scream","tag-wes-craven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scream-2-1997.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1wc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5846,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/scream-4-makes-a-few-half-hearted-stabs-at-relevance\/","url_meta":{"origin":5840,"position":0},"title":"Scream 4 makes a few half-hearted stabs… at relevance","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"April 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"By the time Scream 4 appeared, over a decade after the original trilogy began, the horror genre had moved on from the ironic, winking mode the series popularized. 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