Jill Roberts (Emma Roberts) is without doubt one of the most unhinged Ghostfaces. Look no additional than her brilliantly deranged monologue on the finish of “Scream 4.” Within the finale, she corners Sidney and divulges her true identification. “Good day, Sidney. Shocked?” she says. Her eyes gleam with a disturbed sparkle. It wasn’t sufficient to kill Sidney. Oh no, it was all the time about turning into her. And about that good friend factor? She does not want ’em. “I do not want mates. I want followers.”

Jill might have lived a standard, ho-hum existence — go to varsity, grad college, and work. As an alternative, she argues the web permits a type of fame they by no means dreamt of earlier than. “You do not have to attain something. You simply gotta have f***ed up s*** occur to you,” she provides. “Scream 4” got here 11 years after the earlier installment, so it is the pure development of an ongoing franchise to reconfigure a couple of issues. “New film, new franchise,” continues Jill. “There’s solely room for one lead, and let’s face it, your ingénue days, they’re over.”

When her massive speech is all completed, Jill goes berserk and proceeds to inflict wounds upon herself. It simply has to appear like she fought again, in any case. She’s completely mad, that one. Laced with sardonic humor, “Scream 4” was forward of its time relating to its commentary on influencer tradition. For her half, Roberts dishes up an ingenious, splendidly imbalanced efficiency — making this killer reveal a middle-of-the-pack providing.