10 Movies Everyone Wanted To Love (But Nobody Did)
6. Scream 3
Scream 3 was heavily hyped up as the hotly anticipated finale to Wes Craven's meta slasher trilogy, and after two great movies it seemed like Craven would nail the three-peat.
Yet with series writer Kevin Williamson unable to return, Scream 3 ended up lacking the razor-sharp wit and genre literacy of the first two films.
As playful and potential-rich as shifting the setting to Hollywood was, and as much as everyone loves Parker Posey in the role of Gale's (Courteney Cox) Stab equivalent Jennifer Jolie, Scream 3 eventually succumbs to many of the tropes the franchise was initially sending up.
With a wildly convoluted villain reveal that includes a dispiriting retcon of the series' lore, and a number of surreal sequences that fall tragically flat, Scream 3 can't hold a candle to what came before.
Granted, it's gotten a little better with age due to how ahead of the curve it was in calling out sexual abuse in Weinstein-era Hollywood, but it's still a dog's dinner of a movie that feels relatively limp as a conclusion to a three-movie arc.