SCREAM 4! blast from the past

In one week, SCREAM 4 hits theaters, and I am kind of excited.

I have good memories of the first two SCREAM movies. I saw them both in theaters with good friends, pretty sure I saw the first one twice. I owned both of them (on VHS). The third SCREAM movie, sadly, I did not like one bit. To be fair, I have little memory of it, but I for sure was disappointed and thought it was not scary at all. It tipped the scales way to far on the clever side (failing to be so)  and went way to light on actual suspense.

Will SCREAM 4 have a death as good as Rose McGowen stuck in the cat door getting her neck broke from the garage door going up? I doubt it.

Will SCREAM 4 kill one of our leading characters? Neve, Courtney or David?????  Maybe.

I figure good or bad at least we get to check out Courtney and David together in the roles that first introduced the now married couple, who just now separated while filming this movie! Gossip. We also get to check out Neve Campbell who has pretty much gone away in the last 10+ years.
Then there is the new young cast who will possibly be awful, but I know Anna Paquin is in it, who's great, and I am predicting she gets offed early, Drew Barrymore style. The cast also has Emma Roberts, the cheerleader from Hero's, Adam Brody and Heather Graham, who played Barrymore's character in the movie within the movie in SCREAM 2.

So what are the chances it will be any good?

I think strong. I doubt it will be as good as the original, but its hard to do that. It looks as if they return to high school format, with our returning characters being the adults. It is a good formate and I think the years off has given it time to seem fresh again, while also bringing back nostalgic feelings.
It gets to make fun of itself all it wants because that is the world in SCREAM, characters who reference horror films. Also, the first SCREAM helped bring back the horror movie franchise, and now it has changed, so the movie has new cliches and horror movie trends to exploit.

The preview looks good enough. I am going to go ahead and predict that I will enjoy this movie! Makes me think about the old times. Maybe I will watch all three of them before I see the new one. Even SCREAM 3.