Scream 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Scream 2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Scream 2

[christina]

One scene in Kevin Williamson's screenplay was described simply as "Wes Craven will make it scary."

[tom]

(At around one hour and eighteen minutes) The scene where Gale and Dewey discover the killer has been taking videos of other victims in the movie is a clue. As Gale tells Dewey, "that's not my footage". But another reporter on campus could have easily taken the videos inconspicuously: Debbie Salt.

[jamie]

(At around twenty-two minutes) The guitar solo in the musical cue during the first scene with Sidney and Dewey was performed by Grammy Award winner Duane Eddy.

[victoria]

Laurie Metcalf guest stars with Jerry O'Connell in an episode of Big-Bang Theory as Sheldon Cooper's mother and older brother (respectfully). The episode is the season 11 finale "The Bow-Tie Asymmetry"

[richard]

During the scene where the killer kills Hallie (Elise Neal), if you look closely, you can see the killer's eyes through the mask eye holes, obviously Mickey (Timothy Olyphant).

[addison]

In Scream (1996), when Casey (Drew Barrymore) is on the phone with Ghostface, he asks her to name the killer in Friday the 13th (1980). He corrects her answer to say that the original killer was Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother, Jason didn't show up until the sequel. This statement may be a hint as to a killer in this movie.

[chad]

The tagline of "Stab", the movie-within-a-movie, is, "This is Gonna Hurt".

[alyssa]

Eric Mabius, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and Paula Marshall all auditioned for roles.

[sara]

(At around forty-six minutes) When Gale said "that was Deputy Dwight Riley. He's one of the good guys, unlike some of us", to the gang of reporters, that was a clue. One of the reporters is Debbie Salt, who is also one of the killers.

[carla]

Denise Richards was offered a role in the film, but she was busy doing Starship Troopers (1997).

[mathew]

After filming, Jada Pinkett Smith sent director Wes Craven a set of steak knives for Christmas.

[linda]

Most of the outdoor scenes were filmed at Agnes Scott College, a women's college in Atlanta, Georgia.

[alyssa]

Although being the secondary antagonist, Mickey killed the most people since he was hired by Mrs. Loomis to execute the copycat killing spree.

[camila]

Sarah Michelle Gellar (Casey "Cici" Cooper) is most famous for her starring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), a genre show concerning a hero battling supernatural forces along with their friends, while progressing into adulthood. Here, Gellar shares her final scene prior to her death with Marisol Nichols (Dawnie), an actress who starred in Teen Wolf (2011) as the Desert Wolf, a show with many striking similarities in plot, characters, and genre combinations to Gellar's most prominent acting credit. Tyler Posey Tyler Posey, the lead title star of the show Teen Wolf (2011), who in career, and the show, has many parallels to Gellar and her show's character, appeared in the 2018 third season of Scream: The TV Series (2015), where his character would fell victim to a killer with the same Ghostface get-up of this film franchise, and ultimately Gellar's Cici.

[alyssa]

Lewis Arquette (Chief Hartley) was the real-life father of David Arquette (Dewey Riley) and father-in-law of Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers). Courtney Cox was married to David Arquette from 1999 to 2013. Lewis Arquette died in 2001.

[russell]

(At around one hour and four minutes) Before Randy (Jamie Kennedy) is killed, the killer states that he won't "get the girl". Randy stated earlier in the film (at around seventeen minutes) that if he could change something about the movies, it would be that "the Geek would get the girl", indicating that the killer must be a classmate of his.

[bessie]

The two handguns used at the end by the killers and Gale and Sidney are Glock 17s.

[melinda]

Excerpts from Hans Zimmer's score from Broken Arrow (1996) appeared in the film, in particular, guitar work by Duane Eddy, for Dewey, replacing the tracks that had been developed for the character from Scream (1996)'s score. Marco Beltrami explained in an interview that the Zimmer piece was used as a placeholder for Beltrami's incomplete score during a test screening. The test audience's reaction to it influenced the studio keep the Zimmer piece, reducing "Dewey's Theme", which Beltrami had composed to fill its place, to minor use during more serious scenes involving the character.

[carla]

The play that Sidney (Neve Campbell) is in is "Agamemnon", the first in "The Oresteia", a trilogy of Ancient Greek tragedies. A running theme in this trilogy is murder and revenge. Clytemnestra kills Agamemnon for sacrificing their daughter and having an affair, and Orestes, their son, seeks revenge for his father's death and mother's affair by killing Clytemnestra, his mother. In this movie, Mrs. Loomis (Laurie Metcalf) is seeking revenge from Sidney for the death of her son, who killed Sidney's mother for having an affair with his father. The climax of this film about familial murder and revenge plays out on the set of the play about familial murder and revenge.