Scream 4

"The picture delivers enough of the expected goods, if seldom with the wit or panache of the series' best."

""What's your favourite scary movie?""

"Better than the woeful Scream 3, partly thanks to the influx of new faces and the return of Williamson. But really it’s more of the same, as the franchise slips further towards total self-parody."

"The central conceit of the characters' fates being determined by the "rules" of horror movies feels irredeemably tired; a clever idea that was worth one movie."

"All through the movie, Scream 4 lets us know that it knows exactly what it's up to - and then goes right ahead and gets up to it."

"The kills themselves are both bountiful and bloody, the movie references are brilliant and bloody, the funny is very frequent and very frequently bloody, but to say any more would ruin the boo."

"A desire to Know What You Did Last Installment is likely to be the biggest draw for Scream number four, but if this proves to be the last in the series, it's a bloody shame it ended not with a Scream but a whimper."