Scream II

  My motive isn't as 90's as Mickey's. Mine is just good, old-fashioned revenge. You

        killed my son!  And now I kill you, and I can't think of anything more rational!

The plot is centered on a group of college friends, an ex-cop and a news reporter as they deal with some mysterious killings that take place at the same time as the release of the horror movie Stab, which was inspired by the events in the California town of Woodsboro depicted in the first movie. Many of the survivors from the first movie appear in this sequel.

The movie starts as Sidney and Randy are attending Windsor College. They see news reports that a couple were murdered in a movie theatre at the preview of the Stab movie, which was based on a book by Gale Weathers about the Woodsboro murders. Phil Stevens is stabbed in the head through the wall of a bathroom cubicle. The killer then enters the cinema and sits next to Maureen Evans, and she assumes the killer is her boyfriend wearing a mask. During the Casey Becker kill scene in the film Stab, the crowd goes wild. Taking advantage of this, the killer stabs Maureen multiple times. Since many of the movie-goers are wearing the killers costume (as publicity material provided by the movie studio) and are all carrying fake knives, nobody takes Maureen's attack seriously. Seriously wounded and dying, she climbs up the stairs in front of the movie screen and lets out one final cry before falling down dead. Soon, Sidney and Randy realize that the nightmare is starting all over again.

Dewey also arrives on the campus to try and help protect Sidney. Once again, in the "rules" scene, Randy and Dewey talk and discuss the fact that anyone could be the killer - including themselves. During the course of the discussion, Randy continues his job of explaining the rules of a horror movie, this time the "rules of a Sequel".

The killer attempts to stab Sidney, while setting up a copycat ploy. Casey Cooper, is the next victim. While alone at her house, Cici is threatened by the killer over the phone before the killer attacks her inside the house and chases her upstairs. The killer then stabs her in the back twice before throwing her over a third story balcony to her death. After the police discover the body, the students at the nearby martini mixer go over to investigate, leaving Sidney and Derek at the Delta Lambda Zeta house. The killer attacks Sidney, but Derek appears and helps Sidney escape, before he charges into the house himself. He is slashed on the arm, but the wound is not serious. In the confusion, the killer escapes.

At the police headquarters, Gale and Dewey notice that the names of the new victims loosely match the first three victims from Woodsboro - Maureen Evans matches Maureen Prescott, Casey "Cici" Cooper matches Casey Becker and Phil Stevens matches Steven Orth. The police chief assigns two detectives to protect Sidney from any further attempts on her life. Later, Sidney is in the school theater rehearsing for the play Cassandra when the killer attacks through the mass chaos in one of the scenes, although it is not clear if this is simply a figment of Sidney's imagination or not.

Randy is the next victim. The group is outside on the campus lawn amongst dozen of college students, enjoying the fine weather. When the killer calls and taunts them - claiming that he can see them from where he is. Gale and Dewey search the dozen or so students in the area with cell phones, trying to quickly reveal if any of them is the killer. Randy is also looking around whilst talking to the killer on the phone - he is trying to stall the killer in order to help Gale and Dewey find him. While he is outside (the cameraman) Joel's van, he is unexpectedly pulled into the van and stabbed to death, before his body is discovered soon afterwards by Joel, Gale and Dewey. Officer Andrews and Officer Richards, the detectives who were assigned to protect Sidney, are attacked while their vehicle is stopped at traffic lights. One of the detectives tries to shoot the killer while on the hood of the car, and the killer deliberately crashes the car - killing the detective and knocking the killer unconscious. Gale and Dewey are also caught in a game of cat and mouse with the killer, resulting in Dewey being stabbed and seriously wounded. Sidney and Hallie, Sidney's roomate, narrowly escape the wreckage of the crashed car by squeezing past the unconscious killer in the front seat. Once out of the car, Sidney debates whether to remove the killer's mask or not, and decides to, but returns she find that the killer is gone. She then turns around, only to see Hallie being stabbed by the killer.

Sidney runs to the school theatre, where she is confronted by the killer once more. The killer reveals himself to be Mickey, her new boyfriend's best friend. Sidney finds her boyfriend Derek tied to a stage prop, and Mickey then shoots Derek in the chest. Mickey is also revealed to have had a partner - Mrs. Loomis, the mother of Sidney's previous boyfriend Billy. Mickey reveals that it was his plan all along to be caught for the murders, and to become famous and immortalized by the media. He met Mrs. Loomis on a "psycho website", and she agreed to fund his college tuition in return for his part in the killings. She also helped Mickey place calls to the victims, except for that day because she "ditched on him." Mrs. Loomis' motive for killing Sidney and her friends was revenge for Sidney having killed her son - however Sidney pointed out to her that if she had not abandoned Billy prior to this, then Billy and Stu Macher would not have started their killing spree in the first movie. Mrs. Loomis shoots Mickey, removing him as a potential threat, and stating that his intended legal defense was absurd anyway and that no-one would have believed it. Mickey wanted to blame the violent killings on horror movies; the "effects of cinema violence in society."

As he himself is shot, Mickey reflexively shoots Gale, causing her to fall off the stage. Sidney is cornered by Mrs. Loomis and tricks her momentarily into believing Mickey is still alive, and when Mrs. Loomis is distracted, Sidney hits her in the face with a prop jar. Sidney then barricades herself backstage and causes the front of the stage to collapse on Mrs. Loomis. Mrs. Loomis survives and gets Sidney in an armlock, and Cotton, the man Sidney initially blamed for killing her mother arrives, and takes Mickey's gun.

Mrs. Loomis tries to convince Cotton to kill Sidney, but Cotton chooses to shoot Mrs. Loomis instead. Sidney and Cotton discover that Gale is wounded but alive, and they help her up. Mickey suddenly jumps up dramatically and Gale and Sidney shoot him multiple times. Then, Sidney turns around and decides to shoot Mrs. Loomis in the head - "just in case". It is then revealed that despite his ordeal, Dewey survived his stabbing (while a horrified Gale watched from the other side of the soundproof glass in the sound studio, unable to hear his cry). He is wheeled out of college and taken away in an ambulance. Gale decides to ride with the ambulance to the hospital. It turns out that the scar tissue from being stabbed in the back in the first movie prevented this latest stabbing from being fatal. The movie ends with Sidney looking up into the sky and walking away from the scene of the carnage.

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