Scream 4 Details, Poster

There was a time when Scream ushered in the idea of "meta" horror to an unsuspecting audience that was both impressed by its creativity and terrified by its execution. The series shot for the fences in the second film, revolving around the movie-within-a-movie, Stab, and while Scream 2 was hardly as clever or highly praised as the original, it was still a worthwhile piece of genre entertainment. Less so, however, for Scream 3 and so the franchise died, at least for awhile, as is the case with most things that die in horror.

Years later, the series is being revived with Scream 4, and one might imagine that in order to do so, writer Kevin Williamson must have come up with an angle that he thought was just as fresh and modern and clever as the first film...And yet according to Wes Craven, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the sequel, you might want to think again.

"There have been 10 years of no Ghostface, but there has been the movie-within-a-movie Stab. We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or "sequelitis" as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And then they've been taken by a studio and run into the ground in a series of sequels. She has been off by herself and living her own life, and she's even written a book that has gotten a lot of critical acclaim. She's kind of put her life back together in the course of these 10 years. But, certainly, there would be no Scream without Ghostface, so she has to confront him again, but now as a woman who has really come out the darkness of her past."

Check out the film's official poster below...