Scream IV

                      You forgot the first rule of remakes, Jill. Don't fuck with the original!

On the fifteenth anniversary of the original Woodsboro murders, high school students are attacked and brutally murdered at home by a new Ghostface. The following day, Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro to promote her new book ''Out of Darkness'', with her publicist Rebecca Walters. After evidence is found in her car, Sidney becomes a suspect in the new murder spree and is forced to stay in town until the murders are solved.  Sidney's cousin, Jill Roberts, who is dealing with the betrayal of her ex-boyfriend, Trevor Sheldon], receives a threatening phone call from Ghostface. Jill and her friends Kirby Reed and Olivia Morris are questioned about their calls by Dewey Riley, who is now the sheriff of the town, assisted by Judy Hicks. Meanwhile, Gale Weathers, who is now married to Dewey, is struggling with writer's block. She decides that the new Ghostface murders could revamp her career and begins delving into the case, despite Dewey's protests.

Sidney stays with her aunt Kate Roberts while in Woodsboro. Later that night, Olivia, who lives across the street from Jill, is attacked and killed by Ghostface, as Jill and Kirby watch in horror through Jill's bedroom window. Sidney and Jill rush to the house, but the killer attacks them, managing to injure Jill before fleeing. Jill and Sidney are both rushed to the hospital. Later, in the hospital's parking garage, Rebecca is attacked and murdered by Ghostface. Moments later, during a press conference hosted by Dewey, he advises that they have the murders under control, but Rebecca's body is then thrown off the building onto a news van.

Sidney and Gale enlists the help of two high school movie fanatics, Charlie Walker and Robbie Mercer, who explain that the killer is following the rules of movie remakes to plan the murders. Charlie concludes that the killer will likely strike at a party being held that evening. Gale goes to the party to investigate and is injured by Ghostface. Dewey takes her to the hospital. Meanwhile, two police officers assigned to patrol Jill's house discover a window to be open and are both murdered by Ghostface. Kate arrives home as Sidney receives a phone call threatening to murder Jill, prompting the two to attempt to save her, as Jill does not answer her phone. It is then revealed that Jill is not at home, but at Kirby's house. Ghostface is revealed to be outside of the house and tries to enter. Although they lock Ghostface out, Ghostface stabs Kate in the back through the front door's mail slot, killing her. Sidney then runs into a suspicious Judy while escaping from the house and heads to Kirby's house to save Jill.

Ghostface appears at the party and murders a drunken Robbie soon before Sidney arrives at the house. During a confrontation with Ghostface, Sidney instructs Jill to hide under a bed upstairs, while she narrowly escapes Ghostface. Kirby is forced to answer horror movie trivia to save Charlie, who is tied up and gagged outside. After she answers Ghostface's questions, she goes outside to untie Charlie, believing that she has won the game. He suddenly stabs in Kirby's stomach and leaves her for dead, upset that she took too long to become interested in him, which reveals him as one of the killers. Charlie attacks and seizes Sidney, but when she escapes, she gets stabbed by a second Ghostface, who is revealed as Jill.

Jill reveals that she and Charlie decided to kill people to replicate the first murders. She also reveals that her motive was out of jealousy and anger because of the fame and attention Sidney received [[Scream (1996 film)|in the wake of the murders in the first film.]] Jill then pulls Trevor, her ex-boyfriend, tied up and gagged, out of a closet. Although Trevor tries to talk Jill out of murder, she kills him by shooting him in the groin for cheating on her, and then in the face. When Charlie suggests harming themselves to make them look like victims, Jill kills him by stabbing him in the chest and stomach, intending to frame him as Trevor's accomplice. She then stabs in Sidney's stomach, leaving her for dead. She then trashes the house and hurts herself in order to stage the scene. Dewey, Judy, and the rest of the police then stumble upon the carnage.

Later at the hospital, Dewey visits Jill and tells her that Sidney and Gale are actually still alive. Jill offhandedly remarks that she and Gale would make a good book-writing pair because of their matching wounds. Once Dewey leaves, Jill makes her way to Sidney's room to finish her off and proceeds to strangle her. Visiting Gale in her room, Dewey suddenly realizes that Jill's bizarre knowledge of her and Gale's "matching wounds" implicates her in the murders. He finds her in Sidney's room, but she knocks him out, and is quickly confronted by Gale and Judy. Jill shoots Judy, apparently killing her. Just as Jill is about to shoot Gale, Sidney shocks Jill with a defibrillator, briefly knocking her out. When their backs are turned, Jill rises with a shard of glass, but Sidney then shoots her in the chest, finally killing her. It is revealed that Judy was wearing a bulletproof vest and is uninjured (though she faints of exhaustion right after). Dewey gains consciousness and calls for back-up, as media reporters outside confirm Jill as a survivor and a "hero, right out of the movies", giving her the fame she craved in death.

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