Scream 2 (1997) - Parents Guide Movie Rating

MPA: R BBFC: 18 Maturity Rating 18+

MPAA Reason: Rated R for language and strong bloody violence.

BBFC Reason: Two years after the first series of murders, as Sydney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

BBFC Ratings info: There are scenes of strong threat in which characters are chased and terrorised by a masked killer. There are frequent uses of strong language such as 'f**k' and 'motherf**ker'.

Sex & Nudity

mild

Derek is only in his boxers. A man and a woman kiss passionately and lie back on a desk; she removes her jacket, then they are interrupted. The man's hand is seen on her clothed breast. A girl prepares to take a shower; no nudity is shown. A few (non graphic) sexual references and remarks.

Violence & Gore

severe

A man is seen dead and covered in blood. A man is on the hood of a car which crashes into a pile of metal pipes. The man's head is impaled on a pipe. There is a graphic and bloody close up of the pipe through his head and his head squished against the windshield. Blood is seen on the windshield and his head. His body twitches and convulses. Very graphic. People stagger around after being stabbed sometimes coughing up blood and this could be disturbing to some viewers. Dead bodies are seen a few times. Multiple onscreen deaths with accompanying blood and sound effects. Sidney and Hallie wait at the red light with the bodyguards in their car. Ghostface pops up, shatters the left window with their arm and slits the left bodyguard's throat, then he starts convulsing holding his throat. Phil Is stabbed in the head by the killer. The knife goes through a restroom stall divider after he puts his ear on the stall partition. The knife is shown bloody after the killer pulls it out of the partition. His ear is shown bleeding, this scene is very bloody. Phil is shown lying on the restroom floor in a pool of blood. Mickey is shot 3 times by mrs.Loomis. Gale is shot by Mickey then she falls through a trap door opening on the stage. Later she pops up and is unharmed. The killer grabs Randy and throws him into a van. Then the killer throws Randy against the van window and it shatters. The killer is driving the cop's car with the cop hanging on the windshield. The killer drives through planks of wood and into a heap of copper pipes. The cop's head breaks the windshield and a pipe goes through his head, through his eye. The car hits the pipes and stops quickly. The killer is knocked unconscious. Sidney grabs an empty glass bottle and shatters it over ms.loomis's head. Threatening with guns at the end of the movie. Mickey shoots Derek in the chest, blood runs down his chest. Randy is grabbed from behind and dragged into the back of a new van and then stabbed offscreen multiple times in the back of the van. He also has his throat cut. Dewey opens the van door and Randy's corpse is shown. His whole body is covered in blood. Dewey is stabbed in the back by Ghostface. Ghostface throws Dewey against a soundproof window, then Dewey spews blood on the window. Gale hits Ghostface in the face with a phone. Ghostface jumps out from behind Hallie then stabs her multiple times. The stabbing is offscreen. We hear the knife impacts and then see the bloody results as ghostface releases her to the ground, dead. Cici is thrown through some glass doors by the killer. Ghostface stabs Cici 2 times in the back. Ghostface throws Cici off a balcony face first, she screams loudly. Phil's girlfriend is stabbed by the killer mulitiple times. She manages to stagger to the stage where she coughs up blood and then proceeds to scream, whine and then, with a last look at the assembled crowd, drops dead. Ms. Loomis holds a knife to Sidney's neck. Cotton shoots ms. Loomis to save Sidney. Cici is shown lying on the ground in front of the house lifeless and bloody. The killer wipes the blood off their knife after Cici's death, as the killer did in the first movie. Sidney bashes Mickey into a pillar. Ms. Loomis shoots through a wooden door to kill Sidney, she misses many times. Ms. Loomis lunges at Sidney with a knife. Sidney punches ms. Loomis in the face. Sidney kicks the gun out of Mickey's hands. Sidney cuts Mickey's face with Derek's fraternity necklace. Sidney punches Mickey in the chest. Cici throws a potted plant at the killer. Sidney and Gale shoot Mickey many times after he wakes up. Mickey's body spurts blood when he's shot. Mickey's body flies through the air after he is shot and he flips then lands on the fake brick cubes. The killer slams the bodyguard against the car door window. The bodyguard spews blood spots on the window. The killer slams the bodyguard into the car then on to the hood of the car and he slides off. While ms. Loomis is unconscious, Sidney shoots her in the head just in case she woke up. Gale bumps into Cotton and both his hands are bloody. Gale slides across a table and the killer tries to stab her but misses. The killer jumps out of a closet, lunging at Cici to stab her but they miss her. Ms. Loomis rams the wooden door many times attempting to break it down. Sidney swings an axe causing many stage props to fall on the stage. Most of the props miss ms. Loomis but the fake brick cubes fall on her, then she lands on the stage. Blood is shown dripping out of the van after Randy is killed. Sidney slaps Gale for the surprise interview with Cotton. Sidney throws Ghostface into a table. The killer lunges at Sidney with their knife. Derek is on the other side of the door, he sees the knife. Sidney runs through a house, Ghostface chases her. Ghostface trips over a chair that knocks over a lamp. The killer slashes derek's arm offscreen. Derek's bloody arm is shown. Sidney punches ms. Loomis in the stomach. Sidney kicks Mickey in the stomach. Sidney punches Mickey in the face. Mrs.loomis tries to kill sidney with a knife. And sidney shot mrs.loomis in a head (ending when sidney shot mrs.loomis cause just in case. There are so many blood, shoting scene gross scene. cici cooper went stab in the backs two many time in a row and thrown from third floor and also shown blood in it!! Ghostface shoots Gale in the stomach

Profanity

moderate

Most of the Language is near the end of the movie 12 F-words, 26 scatological terms, 17 anatomical terms (1 mild), 11 mild obscenities, 4 religious profanities, 23 religious exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

mild

A woman is briefly shown smoking a cigarette.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

severe

The dividing wall scene and the climax are fairly intense. The whole movie can be frightening to some viewers, although it has many funny scenes. There are a few sad/emotional death scenes. The opening scene is frightening. This may disturb some viewers. An important character dies about halfway through the movie. May be emotional and sad to some viewers