Scream 3

I think if your kid is over 11 he can indeed watch scream. I believe it is really good but the first one if better, but I am getting of lane. If your child is mature enough and doesn't get terrified easily.

Coming soon

I realized halfway through that this movie had much less gore than the previous two, and the reason is very culturally interesting: it was due to Columbine that the studios asked Craven to reign back on the violence. The movie is still plenty R-rated, but very, very much toned down from, say, the original. Instead it's more character and story-driven, which may not be the first two things you think of when you think of the "Scream" franchise, but it is. It's all very meta; the characters in the film are filming "Stab 3," a parody of the threequel that "Scream" was. Courtney Cox's Gale Weathers gets a huge promotion to lead actress in this film, as does her then husband David Arquette, Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott is put on the back burner a bit. That's where the movie falters a little. The over the top violence doesn't really do anything for me, it doesn't add or take away that this was less. But Sidney was the lead in the last two for good reason: she's the most dramatic character, the one with the most conflict and the most to lose if she's killed. Even though it is stated with those infamous "Scream" rules that "one of the main characters might be killed," you never have a true sense Dewey and Gale are in grave danger. And it turns out they weren't: there's still one more "Scream" to go, and I'm told it's becoming a series soon!