I’m watching your “Scream 2” edit and really am enjoying the subtle, but effective cuts. In particular, removing the clumsy stuff on the stairs with Cici upped the pacing and made her death feel more sudden and brutal. I was rewatching the original scene, and this flowed much better!
It is strange that Wes Craven and the writers padded this movie to a little over two hours.
If you like Scream, have you seen Thanksgiving yet? That was modelled – in a lot of ways – after the Scream movies. : )