This film manages to be quite effective in the making you jump and clench department and at times lean forward in tension, and the young cast you can tell are on the rise, especially lately Jenna Ortega...
yet...
There's still that overly self aware fourth wall bending thing where they don't just talk about horror tropes, they're virtually telling us, the audience that they're in a film right now. It's a little bit more in fun this time so you could probably give it credit for injecting some meta humour into the proceedings whereas last time there was very little else at all to the dialogue and you expected them any minute to just turn to camera and lay out the plot in detail to us directly.
This feels more in the world of its characters this time so you can more easily be absorbed and invested in their lives and be in fear for their mortality.
Horror buffs who are aware of the thousands of films and various subgenres are pretty tired of characters spouting super limited knowledge of the most obvious handful of constantly referenced films, and the traditions or cliches you will find in any beginners guide, but I suppose they're just following the tropes the Scream films are known for.
The original makers, though were not just buffs, they wrote and directed many of the films of the golden era of slashers, and the characters talked about films to each other, never to the audience.
This feels more in the world of its characters this time so you can more easily be absorbed and invested in their lives and be in fear for their mortality.
Horror buffs who are aware of the thousands of films and various subgenres are pretty tired of characters spouting super limited knowledge of the most obvious handful of constantly referenced films, and the traditions or cliches you will find in any beginners guide, but I suppose they're just following the tropes the Scream films are known for.
The original makers, though were not just buffs, they wrote and directed many of the films of the golden era of slashers, and the characters talked about films to each other, never to the audience.