This complies with Kaminsky’s theory that knives are rather used by male killers, because the killing is more personal and intimate. The setting has become darker, the music more intense. This also points out that there is no escape for the girl from the killer and that she is going to die.

The film’s plot predicts what will happen in the cinema and is therefore parallel story in advance. The killer chases, catches and stabs the girl. These two shots are a medium shot and a medium close up of the film. The viewer gets introduced to an ordinary situation in a world just like ours, where many people watch a film in a cinema. Nevertheless this is presenting the equilibrium (Todorov). The music stays the same and also screams from the audience, sounds and lighting from a thunderstorm dramatize the scene. All the people with the mask could be a symbol stating that the killer is everywhere (and can not be escaped from). This makes him suspicious to the viewer, like he would not be touched by such a brutal act. The shot is static, but everyone except the man next to Maureen is moving excitedly. The mask is creating enigma as well, because the real identity of the man is veiled. Now this shot shows that they belong together Maureen believes her boyfriend sits next to her, but no one can really tell, because he and almost every other male in the room is wearing a “Ghostface”-mask. The girl, Maureen Evans, and the man sitting next to her are only watching the film “Stab” in a cinema. This two shot reveals that the shots before are actually bluffs. His appearance and the noise of the destruction shock the audience. When the killer breaks through the wall it gets solved immediately: she was hiding from the killer, probably trying to escape. A first enigma is created, because the viewer asks himself why she is wandering outside alone. The music however creates tension, foreshadowing an unexpected action. The setting makes a peaceful impression, because it is rather bright outside of and inside the house. The scene Sopens with a long shot of a girl walking next to a house in the garden during night wearing a night dress.

Scream 2 soundtrack by scene