Compiled by Lucas Trevor

Many months ago -- during our first and likely only ever Sports Week -- the Rival American put out their first ever exit survey for the cult classic Space Jam. This time the staff of the Rival decided to review Scream 3, the early 2000s horror masterpiece. We had one condition, none of us had ever seen any of the other entries in the Scream Cinematic Universe. “Some of it’s fun,” said Roger Ebert in his review from 2000, and this is ultimately very true.

1. What is your <50 word review of Scream 3?

Julia Ford: Um? I am uncomfortable and confused. too much blood lip gloss and men with gelled hair

Noah Stevens: Scream 3? More like Why Are We Pretending Patrick Dempsey Isn’t Hotter Than David Arquette: the Movie.

Jack Purcell: I don't watch movies. With that being said, Scream 3 is a movie that I watched. It transported me to another world, one of crime, murder, mystery, intrigue, and a storyline I didn’t quite understand. Is this the future Edison sought when he first developed film? Scream 3 was ok.

Lucas Trevor: It was pretty good. It was all right. It wasn't great. But it was fine.

2. What was the best moment of the film?

Noah: Any time Sydney squinted her eyes and opened her mouth just slightly to show the human emotion called “confusion.”

Lucas: Courtney Cox’ yellow pantsuit

Julia: no answer

Jack: That one scene where they had a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

3. What was the closest you came to turning it off?

Julia: when they were all in the house at the end

Jack: When it ended and I actually turned it off.

Noah: Honestly, when the twist at the end was that the dorky director was her BROTHER and the killer, it was over for me. They set up Patrick Dempsey to be the killer the ENTIRE MOVIE....a waste of talent and hotness!

Lucas: I’ll be perfectly honest, I may or may not have fallen asleep right before the Carrie FIsher cameo, so in a way, I turned it off then.

4. Favorite unexplained late 90s reference?

Julia: The fashion.

Jack: I don't know enough about pop culture to recognize the 90s references.

Lucas: Jay and Silent Bob being relevant.

Noah: Is everyone wearing a massive suit just because they can? or am I missing something?

5. Having never seen another Scream movie, could you understand what was going on?

Lucas: I was very confused why Cortney Cox was in this movie even though Friends had already come out, and she was famous.

Julia: Someone killed Sidney's mom and maybe people think Sidney is dead but she's not but i'm not sure if people really think that. there is a person in a mask that wants to kill everyone and knows how to impersonate everyone's voice

Jack: Yes, in that I recognized that someone was killing people.

Noah: I started to understand what was happening after the first half hour or so, although I did have to open up the wikipedia list of characters to keep track of who was who. Oddly enough, Courtney Cox’s microbangs aren’t listed in the credits.

6. What question did you have after finishing the movie

Julia: How did they make three in-universe movies about one in-universe killing spree?

Noah: There’s a fourth one? and a FIFTH one? Wasn’t the whole joke of this movie that it was finishing the trilogy?

Lucas: No, everything was super straightforward, logical, and easy to understand.

Jack: Why? who paid for this to occur?

7. Will you be seeing any other entry in the Scream cannon?

Lucas: Hard pass.

Julia: I hope not.

Jack: Not if they're movies.

Noah: There’s a strong possibility that I never watch another movie again.

The ‘Scream 3’ Exit Survey