More teens, more screams. Whodunit? Who cares? The process of making you jump and scream is clearly director Wes Craven's priority here and not the plot. Actually, for those interested in the solution to this one, there's a fairly hefty clue to the killer early on, as well as a trail of equally obvious red herrings. But stalk and slash is the game here and, for sheer sustained nail-scraping tension, the second half of this film probably has the edge on its predecessor: victims may run through a series of rooms, locking doors behind them, but you know the killer will be there waiting at the end. Fear rather than logic dictates the action, as most of the survivors from the first film get hacked down, but not, of course, our Sid (Neve Campbell), the inviolable heroine. The killer/killers have chances to shoot, stab and strangle her, but botch it every time. Incidentally, the cast (including potential victims Sarah Michelle Gellar, Heather Graham and Jada Pinkett) wasn't told the murderer's identity until the final scene came to be shot.

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