It’s like the Apocalypse out here.  Seriously.  Wars, rumors of wars, assorted whatnot, Wes Craven coming back–again!

It seems that the Weinsteins signed a seven-year deal with the folks out at Showtime, and this opened up the floor to all sorts of insanity, including but not limited to the concept of Scream Four getting bandied around.

Okay, maybe you missed that.  It was buried in a paragraph and all.  So just for emphasis and amplification, SCREAM. FOUR.  COMING SOON.

I couldn’t be much more horrified if Wes Craven threatened publicly to kill an entire elementary school.  Scream has already jumped the shark.  In fact, based on the third one it jumped the shark and landed right in Jaws’ mouth.  Scream has had its time, and to suggest that it can come back is insulting to the horror film community.  This movie’s from a different time…great for its time, still half decent, but man, bringing it back after nearly ten years just smacks of desperation.

Which is entirely possible–the Weinsteins probably needed to name some names in rapid fashion while setting up the deal with Showtime, so “Scream 4″ probably just leapt to mind right away since it was one of their biggest franchises.  Along with, of course, a likely slew of other horror titles that they could’ve brought into play, so who knows what else the Weinsteins may be pulling out of their hats for the next seven years?

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