Normally I malign Wes Craven work like no tomorrow as lacking subtlety or anything that might make a halfway-decent storyline.  But even I will always thank him for one movie:  Scream.

Scream pretty much single-handedly pulled the horror movie genre out of a morass that threatened to destroy it back in the late nineties.  I remember those days.  They were DARK.  There were times when I thought there might never again be a horror movie, and when you’re in high school, that’s just a horrible thing to think.

But Scream managed to reinvigorate the genre by taking all the best tropes and putting them over the top.  Thus, any iteration of Scream gets a free pass with me, for what it did all those years ago.  And Scream 4, which may or may not include Neve Campbell, has been officially confirmed by both Kevin Williamson and David Arquette.

The script is still being written so you know it’ll be a while before we get the chance to see it.   I’m prepared to believe this might be good, and even if it isn’t, I’m prepared to, once again, give it a pass.