Scream Movies In Order: How To Watch The Horror Franchise Chronologically
Scream reinvented the slasher genre back in 1996, and here's its subsequent sequels and TV series spin-offs in the correct chronological order.
Scream 2 (1997)
Scream 2 is the follow-up to Wes Craven's meta film Scream and was released a year after the original. In the sequel, Sidney (Neve Campbell) moves to college but can't escape her legacy as a survivor of Ghostface. Things become even more complicated for Sidney and her friends when a new Ghostface haunts her campus.
Scream 2
- Director
- Wes Craven
- Release Date
- December 12, 1997
- Studio(s)
- Dimension Films
- Distributor(s)
- Dimension Films
- Cast
- Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , Timothy Olyphant
- Writers
- Wes Craven
- Runtime
- 120minutes
- Franchise(s)
- Scream
- prequel(s)
- Scream
- Budget
- $24 million
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