New on DVD: Latest installment in horror franchise another `Scream'

Ghostface returns in a horror sequel that tops the DVD releases for the week of April 5.

`Scream': Woodsboro has another masked killer on the loose in this fifth installment, or `requel,' of the slasher franchise that launched a quarter-century ago. Neve Campbell returns as final girl Sidney Prescott, this time passing on the torch to a new generation.

`What made `Scream' so revolutionary in 1996 was its ironic self-reflection; a slasher movie that plucked the genre from the straight-to-VHS discount bin and held it up as art by dissecting all of the rules and conventions of its formula, while turning a mirror on the media landscape,' writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. `This new `Scream' is plenty sentient too. There's much to say about the state of the industry, from juicy debates over the notion of “elevated horror” vs. retro schlock, as well as the tendency to constantly reboot and remake.'

Also new on DVD

• `Death on the Nile': Kenneth Branagh, who also directs, reprises his role as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this Agatha Christie adaptation about a murder case aboard an Egyptian riverboat. Also starring Armie Hammer, Gal Gadot and Annette Bening.

• `Parallel Mothers': Penelope Cruz reunites with director Pedro Almodovar for their seventh collaboration, a Spanish-language drama about two woman who bond after meeting in a maternity ward.

• `CSI: Vegas: Season 1': William Petersen and Jorja Fox are back as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle respectively in this CBS reboot of the Sin City procedural.

• `Jockey': A veteran jockey aims to win one more title before getting out of the horse racing game in this drama starring Clifton Collins Jr., Moises Arias and Molly Parker.

• `The Desperate Riders': Western about a gunman who saves a boy and is then convinced to help rescue his kidnapped mother, with the help of a female gunslinger they meet along the way.