Scream 2 (1997)

I would say that Scream 2 is the best of at least the original trilogy (Scream 3 review forthcoming, Scream 4 on my 'to watch' list). While with the first film the series was still figuring out what it was, by the sequel it knows, and given that this horror franchise is a knowing tribute to horror franchises its appropriate and meta that Scream would do well  with a sequel (it came out only a year later as well, so this was rushed). The film is marginally better then the original, it finds a way to effectively twist on the villains, given they had already been unmasked in the original, or had they? I liked that this film was set on a college campus, there is a lot of fan service here, arguably too much in the way of homages to the first one, but it kind of had to be like that, its in the nature of this beast, it would be wrong if it wasn't so self referential. My stand out cameo in the first film was 'The Fonz' Henry Winkler as kind of a tight ass high school principal, in 2 the stand was David Warner, who had played Jack the Ripper in Time After Time, as a college drama teacher. ***