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STATUS: This edit is available to download upon request. Some people had trouble getting the original file so a smaller one has been created. PM me for more info.
The goal with this edit is to restore a more consistent serious tone throughout, by downplaying some of the humor that falls flat, making characters more likeable and portraying the police of Woodsboro as less childish and incompetent. In addition, some deleted scenes are reinstated and many moments are trimmed to improve pacing, character development and suspense.
Below is a list of every change I've made, with the ones that I feel would be spoilers blacked out.
PROLOGUE
- timing of Ghostface jumping out at Trudie changed
- Alternate PPV audio added ("Tru...Oh my god!")
- "Stab 7" title appears differently on-screen
- Jenny’s reference to “The Twilight Zone” removed
- Kristen Bell and Anna Paquin scene only appears on TV, muted
- DELETED SCENE: alternate opening re-edited to have Jenny survive, leading into theatrical garage chase scene
- 3D Ghostface behind “SCREAM 4” title card removed
RETURN TO WOODSBORO
- "Something to Die For" by The Sounds replaced with acoustic version
- shot of Sidney from the trailer added
- continuity error of Gale typing fixed
- DELETED SCENE: Crime Scene
- DELETED SCENE: Jill and Trevor at school
- Perkins' "Damn!" and "Cover up your kid's eyes!" removed
- Gale trying to peek in Sid’s bloody car trunk trimmed
POLICE STATION
- Deputy Judy peeking in interrogation room trimmed
- Rebecca's phone call to Henry removed
- music during Gale and Rebecca's conversation lowered
- Rebecca's "Testy!" removed
- DELETED SCENE: Discussing the murders
ROBERTS RESIDENCE & OLIVIA ATTACK
- DELETED SCENE: Dewey's test
- Kate’s “Oh…well…fine” reaction trimmed
- Ghostface’s “It will be” removed
- bystander's "You're just like your mother" replaced by "Stay out of our town"
- DELETED SCENE: Kate outside Olivia’s house
HOSPITAL & PARKING GARAGE
- DELETED SCENE: Gale on the trail
- Rebecca's "downtrodden fucks" speech trimmed
- Rebecca in elevator removed
- door handle breaking removed, Rebecca's death scene trimmed
- Gale's "Out of my way amateurs!" removed
CINEMA CLUB & STAB-A-THON
- alternate PPV audio added (curfew announcement)
- Charlie's "You pretty much have to be gay" removed
- Gale's "I really want the location" removed
- Jill's "That's the view from my cell" removed
- Gale's "Go ahead if you have the guts!" from trailer added
- Dewey's "Get out of the way you morons" removed
SIDNEY ATTACKED
- Perkins getting startled at nothing removed
- Perkins getting stabbed in the head trimmed, “Shit” and "Fuck Bruce Willis!" removed
- frames of Ghostface at the Roberts door trimmed
KIRBY’S AFTERPARTY & CLIMAX
- Hicks’s phone call to Dewey trimmed
- DELETED SCENE: Robbie around Kirby's house
- Robbie's "I'm gay!...If it helps" removed, death scene trimmed to hide CGI blood
- frames of Sidney at Kirby’s door trimmed
- Jill's "Shut up…dick" trimmed
- Trevor and Jill's exchange "I loved you!"/"Shut the fuck up already!" removed
- Jill cartoonishly running head first in a picture frame removed
- film ends after Dewey tells Jill that Sid might survive
- "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria replaced with "Red Right Hand" by Arctic Monkeys
EPILOGUE
- cliffhanger resolved after end credits
- alternate PPV audio added (hospital announcement)
- DELETED SCENE: Dewey visits Gale at the hospital
- Jill's "Get your skinny ass out here" removed
- Jill's "Clear?" removed
- Deputy Hicks fainting removed
Here's another preview, this time of Rebecca's death scene. I always felt that the door handle breaking was a cop-out so I got rid of that moment. I also trimmed and re-ordered some shots to make her stabbing more sudden. I will also tweak or remove her ADR gasp; it sounds fake in the movie and even moreso in this edit. Let me know what you think!
This edit is now 98% complete and the only thing remaining is stitching together the two openings. It's a challenge since Jenny (Aimee Teegarden) gets undoubtedly killed in front of Marnie (Britt Robertson) in the alternate opening, yet I want her be mostly unharmed and then chased up the stairs later.
Like I mentioned above, I am stitching the two openings together, which means that Jenny does not get killed in front of Marnie. She escapes upstairs while Marnie gets killed, at which point Ghostface chases her back into the garage.
The transition between the two is very tricky to pull off so I need your help for the first part, which is Marnie's initial reaction. Here are 3 options, some slower and more suspenseful, others more sudden and to the point. Let me know which one you think works best!
Like I mentioned above, I am stitching the two openings together, which means that Jenny does not get killed in front of Marnie. She escapes upstairs while Marnie gets killed, at which point Ghostface chases her back into the garage.
The transition between the two is very tricky to pull off so I need your help for the first part, which is Marnie's initial reaction. Here are 3 options, some slower and more suspenseful, others more sudden and to the point. Let me know which one you think works best!
Sounds good! As far as opinions on Scream 4 go, I think the tide turned in the last few years. I see many lists and rankings placing it above Scream 3 and even Scream 2.
Sounds good! As far as opinions on Scream 4 go, I think the tide turned in the last few years. I see many lists and rankings placing it above Scream 3 and even Scream 2.
Sounds good! As far as opinions on Scream 4 go, I think the tide turned in the last few years. I see many lists and rankings placing it above Scream 3 and even Scream 2.
Missed my deadline as the editing of the new opening sequence involves quite a bit of visual touch-ups. Basically, since Jenny is no longer stabbed in the back by Ghostface, I had to remove every drop of blood from the scene (but I'm only erasing the blood on Ghostface's mask up until he slashes Marnie on the arm since it's now motivated)
One of the shots I'm most proud of is this one, where I repurposed a later shot of Jenny crawling away and integrated her into the living room, thus making the transition to he running away to the front door.
It's a lot of painstaking work but I'm realizing that my idea of joining the 2 opening scenes couldn't be done without it so hopefully, it will look seamless enough. Let me know your thoughts!
The new opening scene is now completed, which means that my FanEdit is also finished! By far the hardest thing I've ever had to edit, there are countless visual tweaks and effects, as well as new audio and SFX to achieve the transition between the two vastly different openings.
I would love some last minute feedback on the combined openings before I render the final movie so if anyone wants to check it out, let me know!
Loved the new opening! Can't wait to see it. . Maybe a stab sound effect when Marnie gets stabbed to help bridge the two. The music transition is perfect. I just think the effect would help.
