Every Scream Movie Ranked Worst To Best

6. Scream 3 (2000)

It's worth getting it out the way now: There is no such thing as a bad Scream movie. But if asked to name the weakest of the series, you choose Scream 3.

The only film in the franchise not to be written by Kevin Williamson (until the recent two), Scream 3 takes the action from the unlucky little town of Woodsboro to the hills of Hollywood, where production of a new Stab movie is thrown into disarray by a Ghostface with a love for meta commentary and a personal link to Sidney Prescott.

As ever, the subversion here is excellent, with plenty of jabs being taken at the ideas and tropes of movie trilogies, but the film-within-a-film set-up struggles to meet its loftier goals and more intelligent discussions.

Populated by a host of unremarkable redshirts (save hilarious newcomer Parker Posey), the threequel is anchored by the charming and heroic performances of Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox, as well as its final twist, but in the end it's far too convoluted and heavy-handed to compete with the films surrounding it.