Every Scream Movie Ranked Worst To Best

It took him over a decade, but Wes Craven finally returned to Woodsboro in 2011 with Scream 4, a sequel that brings compelling genre satire and timely assessments of social media to Sidney Prescott's most personal Ghostface.

Modern and twisty, Scream 4 follows the franchise's long-standing heroes as history repeats itself on the fifteenth anniversary of the original Woodsboro massacre, and in the process gives us a whole host of new blood who constantly steal the show (from Hayden Panettiere's Kirby to Emma Roberts' Jill).

Taking the formula that made the first Scream such a hit, wrapping its gruesome kills in an angsty teen melodrama and bracing whodunnit, Wes Craven's long-awaited return to the series works as both a familiar and subversive thriller perfectly attuned to what came before -- mocking itself and doubling-back at every turn.

Scream 4, like all the franchise's sequels, had no right to work, and yet fifteen years after Ghostface debuted, it still found ways to keep things fresh.