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Scream 2

“Someone has taken their love of sequels one step too far.”

19972h 0m★ 6.5

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

IMDB
Share:
6.5/10
Rating
5,009
Votes
$24.0M
Budget
$172.4M
Revenue

In the Series

How Scream 2 compares

Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Scream, not taken from this film’s own record.

#4 of 7
Rank in the series by rating

Scream 2 (1997) ranks 4th of the 7 rated films in the Scream series, at 6.5/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.6/10.

1 year
Wait since the previous film

It arrived 1 year after Scream (1996).

16%
Share of the series audience

Its 5,009 TMDB ratings are 16% of the 31,020 cast across the series.

Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Scream, comparing all 7 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.

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