Scream 4 Recut

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(Updated: August 30, 2012)
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March 25, 2012

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Scream 4’s ending is overblown and annoyingly dragged out. Fortunately, Neg applies his digital knife to the movie to give us a proper cliffhanger and a vastly improved ending.

As per usual, Neg’s audio surgery is complicated (just reading the cut list makes me lightheaded in a blood-loss kind of way), but the transplants and sutures are largely indiscernible to the viewer, as they should be.

I actually liked the first couple tunes in the original end credits, but Neg’s choice of closing music is simply groovy.

If I were King of da Planet, I would demand that Neg work on Scream 5. Or else I’d send Ghost Face after the producers.

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Loved the ending. Thank you Neglify! :]X

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March 29, 2012

One of the things I enjoy most about Neglify’s edits is that he always knows when to chop, when to add, and when to leave well enough alone. As the saying goes, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Rather than chop the film to pieces (sorry), he edits with restraint, allowing the better parts of the film to remain intact, and only the most cheesy, offensive, distracting elements are removed.

Technically, Neglify’s edits are of a very high quality, and Scream 4 is another great example of that. The picture quality is excellent for a DVD release, and the editing is mostly seamless. The picture quality was slightly worse for the deleted scenes, but the content was nice and these were welcome additions to the movie. I also noticed a couple of minor lip sync issues in the deleted scenes only. The rest of the movie flowed really smoothly and without any technical issues.

As for the edits themselves, I really liked the choices made, especially those that brought the film closer to the shooting script (i.e., infused the movie with more subtlety). The best change imo is the ending. When I read that Neglify had made the ending more ambiguous/ending on a cliffhanger, I was worried there would be no resolution, or the film would suddenly cut as the killer was about to be revealed. Without giving away what Neglify actually achieves, I can say I was totally satisfied and felt the film ended exactly where it should.

Neglify, I totally agree – I want to see the Scream 5 that follows this film! Had the original team made this choice, it would have been a brave and impressive decision. Alas, Hollywood is not as intelligent as you are. Well done.
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The only cuts I noticed were during one of the deleted scenes, where the pitch of the background foley (waterfountain I think?) changed slightly between cuts.


And I love njvc.

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