A mainly by the numbers affair, enjoyable enough while it lasts, but instantly forgettable.

At 116 minutes, this third installment lumbers along like a serial killer in shackles.

Scream 3 feels very much like the stretch run towards the finish line.

Scream 3 often feels like a spectre of slasher-movies past, but it features an engagingly prescient mystery about the dark side of Hollywood, and builds to an enjoyably tense climax in director Wes Craven's version of a haunted mansion.