And the seas wept blood, and the oceans vomited up fire, and most everyone involved in the first two Scream movies is headed right back to make Scream 4, long after the teen horror movie trend it helped resurrect died, and the teens who did see it, have their own kids already. Yes Scream 4. Sure no one went to see Scream 3, but that’s not going to stop Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson from making Scream 4 anyway. Both men saw their careers kick into high gear with Scream, only to waste that juice. Kevin Williamson at least managed to keep it together until Teaching Mrs. Tingle tore it all apart. Wes Craven didn’t even seem to bother, trying for one stab at the mainstream with a Meryl Streep movie, then giving up and just letting anyone remake his classic movies.

Meanwhile Courtney Cox and David Arquette have run out of enough things to do, to make them head right back to the project too. No word on whether Neve Campbell has so little dignity as to follow suit. At least most of the rest of cast can be thankful their characters are dead. The original Scream was a successfully funny and even scary movie. Each sequel drained away the funny and the scary, instead going lamer and lamer, and the teens that would have once watched Scream are too busy with the Saw movies.

And the shame of it is that the original Scream was actually a good movie. The first time Wes Craven came in and ran that opening reel with Drew Barrymore for us, it was obvious that he had a winner. And the reason Scream worked was that it did a good job of balancing the kind of direct horror you see these days in movies like Vacancy or The Strangers, with humor and decently rendered supporting characters, and a mystery with a twist. No monster, no retarded boy, no deformities, just bored kids with a vicious grudge and no trace of morals. The same kids who today go to Saw screenings, and terrorize random strangers on the internet who annoy them.

There can’t be a Scream 4, because it’s no longer relevant. After the first few Scream murders, it’s all too obvious that we’re already living in a Scream world.