10 Horror Movies You Didn't Realise Stupidly Broke Their Own Rules
5. The New Voice Changer Is Basically Magic - Scream 3
The Rule
The Scream franchise is wholly preoccupied with sending-up the supposed "rules" to survive a horror movie, and though the series is built on a relatively shaky bed of realism as it is, it never dared to flat-out flirt with the supernatural.
At least where the first two movies are concerned, anyway.
The Breaker
Scream 3 was widely criticised for basically falling prey to the groan-worthy horror sequel tropes that the first two movies so brilliantly mocked, though perhaps the most baffling thing about the entire movie is that damn voice changer.
In the film's opening sequence, Ghostface reveals that he has a fancy new voice changer which allows him to select pre-programmed voices at a whim.
Ghostface uses this throughout the film to mess with his victims by impersonating various characters, even though this technology absolutely didn't exist in the late '90s let alone today, where a Photoshop-for-voice program is still in development.
Even if you suspend your disbelief that killer Roman (Scott Foley) could use a secret piece of software to sample various voices of people known to him, credibility once again falters given that he also uses the voice changer to impersonate Sidney's (Neve Campbell) long-dead mother, Maureen. Right.
If the first two movies at least presented plausible enough explanations for Ghostface's "teleportation" by revealing there to be two killers, Scream 3 basically stopped caring and said, "Screw it. Magic."
As the vastly superior Scream 4 told us in its climax, "Don't f**k with the original."