Scream Season 2 Returning to MTV This Spring

It's time to Scream! We're talking about Scream 2, the MTV and Dimension TV collab, and the new cast, poster and premiere date for the second season of the hit TV series have just been released.

Season 2 of the series returns to TV on Tuesday, May 31st and there will be several newcomers this season including Anthony Ruivivar from (American Horror Story), Karina Logue from (Bates Motel), Santiago Segura (Silicon Valley), and Austin Highsmith (Murder in the First).

The show picks up with Emma, played by Willa Fitzgerald, returning to Lakewood after she hoped to recover from the horrific events of last season and everyone is walking on eggshells around her, wondering if she's truly over it. But there's another killer on the loose and Emma, along with Noah (John Karna), Brooke (Carlson Young), and Jake (Tom Maden) are trying to find out who's behind it all.

Wes Craven, the iconic director who brought us the film series the TV show is based from served as an Executive Producer of the first season. But with his passing last August, the series is now under the direction of new showrunners, Michael Gans and Richard Register. But how has the series so far compared to Craven's original 1996 masterpiece?

There are a few key similarities. To start, the cast treads lightly around Emma, reminiscent of the Scream films with Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott. The motives of the killers in both are also shrouded in mystery and events of the past. And of course, that first scene is all too familiar.

The biggest difference however, is the departure from the iconic Ghostface mask. The reason being, as told to Entertainment Weekly by executive producer Jamie Paglia, "It you were to have that mask in a television series, but you weren't following any of the characters [from the original], I believe that would be misleading the audience." Even Wes Craven himself co-signed the new mask calling it "cool and scary and takes the series into a new direction."

How do you feel the TV series has lived up to the movies so far? Have they done Wes Craven original flick(s) justice? And what are you most looking forward to in season 2?

In the mean time you can also check out Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street actors, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, and Robert Englund discussing with Larry King what it was like working for Wes Craven.