The Corner Penthouse

Way back on September 26, 2000, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released The Ultimate Scream Collection DVD box set containing all three movies (Scream 4 didn't exist at the time), a bonus disc, and a 24-page booklet.

I have owned this box set for almost 20 years now, and it's a great set that shows that a lot of care was put into it (except for not presenting the first film in anamorphic widescreen), but since I also own the Blu-ray set (which adds two feature-length documentaries), I figured that it was time to bid adieu to it.

Recently, I have been going through my DVD and Blu-ray collection to see if everything from the old DVDs were ported over to the Blu-rays. In regards to this DVD box set, I can report that all of the video content from the three movie discs can be found on the Blu-ray discs. Unsurprisingly, the still image extras from those three discs were not carried over. They mostly consist of cast & crew bios and production notes, all of which were sourced from the film's original press kits. Scream also has a "Did You Know?" trivia photo gallery. If you'd like to see these stills, I uploaded all of them to The Corner Penthouse Facebook page in three separate galleries: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3.

Not one single thing from the Scream Exclusive Bonus DVD/DVD-ROM disc was ported over, so you may want to hop onto eBay and grab a copy of that disc if you want the Scream 1 Outtakes (5 mins); "Behind The Scream" documentary (30 mins); Screen Tests for Neve Campbell, Jamie Kennedy, and Skeet Ulrich (8 mins total); "The Cutting Room" interactive workshop (edit scenes using your remote); and the fake "Sunrise Studios Trailers": Stab 2, Frankenpimp, It Came From The Waves, Is Somebody There?, Zombie Martians from Deep Outer Space, Opium Den, The First House On The Right, Voodoo Club, The Scared Bitch Projectz. As the disc's name implies, there is also these DVD-ROM features: Trivia Game, Screenplay and Shot List, Character Web, Screensaver, Website Archive, and Scream 3 Website. I'm not sure how many of those things will still work on modern computers, but you could always root around the files on the disc and fish out the source files.

The other significant item that can not be found in the Blu-ray set is the 24-page booklet. Since this set was made back when the studios gave a damn, it's a high-quality minibook printed on high-quality paper and is the size of a DVD case. I really wish I could have kept it, but it doesn't fit inside a DVD case, so it would end up just floating around, and I don't want that. I still wanted to keep a copy of the booklet for myself, so I scanned it in at 300dpi, cleaned up the images as best as I could, and put it together into a PDF file. You can download a copy for yourself by clicking on the cover image below. DON'T READ THE BOOKLET BEFORE SEEING THE THREE FILMS, as the booklet tells you every character who dies in each of the films!


Enjoy! I'll be right back...