Scream 7

[Jerroddragon]

Saw this on Tuesday. Thankful I saw this with Regal’s Discount Tuesday because holy moly this movie was BUNS.

While there are some movies in the Scream series that are weaker than others (Ahem, 3), I wouldn’t say they were outright bad movies. Even the weaker Scream movies had their cheesy fun moments.

I would say this is the first legitimately bad Scream movie. I could tell Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox just don’t want to be there and did it for the paycheck. It was so frustrating seeing how many poor decisions Sydney and her daughter kept making. lol for Pete’s sake, you’re the Prescotts. You should freaking know better than to (SPOILER) Leave your panic room and leave yourself vulnerable in those thin walls [But that scene was probably the best of the movie lol] (END SPOILER). The reveal at the end was probably the worst in the whole franchise.

Kinda of a big spoiler here but If by some Christmas miracle they can even get Melissa Bererra back and properly close this trilogy they had planned (I doubt she will and I don’t blame her. She probably laugh so hard rn), They can easily ignore this movie and at the most acknowledge what happened here in passing. That’s how forgettable this movie is. I would love to see a proper closing of this saga but I don’t think it will happen.

At this point I think they need to let some time pass and do a proper ending for this. Give Sydney a break lol. Either leave it alone or go for the New Nightmare approach. Scream has turned into Stab.

I wouldn’t even bother if you’re a Scream fan if I’m gonna be honest. Movie was complete dog water.

The best part is she made a panic room...then made a path that was weak not just to guns but Knives, the Number one thing that's almost killed you like 8 times, lol

 

[Jaden]

Saw this on Tuesday. Thankful I saw this with Regal’s Discount Tuesday because holy moly this movie was BUNS.

While there are some movies in the Scream series that are weaker than others (Ahem, 3), I wouldn’t say they were outright bad movies. Even the weaker Scream movies had their cheesy fun moments.

I would say this is the first legitimately bad Scream movie. I could tell Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox just don’t want to be there and did it for the paycheck. It was so frustrating seeing how many poor decisions Sydney and her daughter kept making. lol for Pete’s sake, you’re the Prescotts. You should freaking know better than to (SPOILER) Leave your panic room and leave yourself vulnerable in those thin walls [But that scene was probably the best of the movie lol] (END SPOILER). The reveal at the end was probably the worst in the whole franchise.

Kinda of a big spoiler here but If by some Christmas miracle they can even get Melissa Bererra back and properly close this trilogy they had planned (I doubt she will and I don’t blame her. She probably laugh so hard rn), They can easily ignore this movie and at the most acknowledge what happened here in passing. That’s how forgettable this movie is. I would love to see a proper closing of this saga but I don’t think it will happen.

At this point I think they need to let some time pass and do a proper ending for this. Give Sydney a break lol. Either leave it alone or go for the New Nightmare approach. Scream has turned into Stab.

I wouldn’t even bother if you’re a Scream fan if I’m gonna be honest. Movie was complete dog water.

I still haven’t seen the movie yet. I don’t know if I plan to, but despite how many Scream movies there are, I would not mind a New Nightmare route if that were the case.

One where one of the killer actors is the main survivor in pure irony, lol.

 

[Freak]

I still haven’t seen the movie yet. I don’t know if I plan to, but despite how many Scream movies there are, I would not mind a New Nightmare route if that were the case.

One where one of the killer actors is the main survivor in pure irony, lol.

At this point I really think this is the only way forward if they insist on pushing this franchise. At least there’s opportunity for them to say “Why did I agree to Scream 7?”

I kinda want this to happen now lol

 

[Jerroddragon]

I'm going to link something below which is spoilers....but yeah confirms to me why this is one of the weakest Ghostfaces reveals yet....not the actors fault at all. This is on the writers

Spoiler

 

[belloq87]

I'd still take 7's reveal over 3 (which is actively insulting to the first movie) and 6 (which becomes more and more implausible/impossible the longer you think about it).

7's is nonsense, no question, but it's harmless.

 

[CoryLevy91]

I still haven’t seen the movie yet. I don’t know if I plan to, but despite how many Scream movies there are, I would not mind a New Nightmare route if that were the case.

One where one of the killer actors is the main survivor in pure irony, lol.

I haven't watched any of it but this was supposedly a plan for the Scream TV series wherein a season of the show would pull back to have the actors on the show becoming targets of a killer and they would go to either the characters from the films (i.e. Sidney) or the actors in the films for help, can't remember which.

I'm going to link something below which is spoilers....but yeah confirms to me why this is one of the weakest Ghostfaces reveals yet....not the actors fault at all. This is on the writers

The weakest part of 7, for me, has to be the writing. It just feels like a super, super rough draft. Super underbaked and just not crafted with the care it should have been. The why of that will likely never be known and it's likely a combination of everything (the fallout from the unjust departure of Barrera, a shortened development cycle, script leaks, etc.).

And it's a shame because the kills are excellent, the score is great, the directing is fine and the cast does well with what little they're given. I really do think Scream 8 has a chance to be one of the best in the entire series if they have a better, more solidified story going in and are able to stick to it but with the news of Williamson wanting to move on the person at the head of steering the franchise's ship is up in the air.

I also think they're boxed in pretty hard in terms of moving forward. Will another 'legacy' style Scream with Neve and Courtney at the top of the marketing push bring in the throngs again? I think they'd possibly face some diminishing returns. But for as fine a job as she did in 7 I don't think Isabel May is at the level to lead a Scream film on her own. So then do we just re-hash a new target that is somehow related to Sidney so she's involved? Do we push on with yet another Sidney-centric story with a killer who are Stu and Billy's long lost nephews that were babies and saw Sidney murder their uncles? Creatively I would love to see just an entirely new cast of characters tangled up in a web of slashings set in a world where people use the Ghostface mask to commit their brutal crimes but good luck selling that to money hungry execs.

The franchise can't die but it has no real place to go without dragging along the same victims it's held hostage for 30 years.

 

[HHN Maddux]

I haven't watched any of it but this was supposedly a plan for the Scream TV series wherein a season of the show would pull back to have the actors on the show becoming targets of a killer and they would go to either the characters from the films (i.e. Sidney) or the actors in the films for help, can't remember which.



The weakest part of 7, for me, has to be the writing. It just feels like a super, super rough draft. Super underbaked and just not crafted with the care it should have been. The why of that will likely never be known and it's likely a combination of everything (the fallout from the unjust departure of Barrera, a shortened development cycle, script leaks, etc.).

And it's a shame because the kills are excellent, the score is great, the directing is fine and the cast does well with what little they're given. I really do think Scream 8 has a chance to be one of the best in the entire series if they have a better, more solidified story going in and are able to stick to it but with the news of Williamson wanting to move on the person at the head of steering the franchise's ship is up in the air.

I also think they're boxed in pretty hard in terms of moving forward. Will another 'legacy' style Scream with Neve and Courtney at the top of the marketing push bring in the throngs again? I think they'd possibly face some diminishing returns. But for as fine a job as she did in 7 I don't think Isabel May is at the level to lead a Scream film on her own. So then do we just re-hash a new target that is somehow related to Sidney so she's involved? Do we push on with yet another Sidney-centric story with a killer who are Stu and Billy's long lost nephews that were babies and saw Sidney murder their uncles? Creatively I would love to see just an entirely new cast of characters tangled up in a web of slashings set in a world where people use the Ghostface mask to commit their brutal crimes but good luck selling that to money hungry execs.

The franchise can't die but it has no real place to go without dragging along the same victims it's held hostage for 30 years.

It was confirmed that the original Season 3 would've ended with the reveal that the whole Lakewood story was an in-universe TV series, with the big cliffhanger being the killer's actor killed by someone in the original Ghostface outfit, with Season 4 going full Scream/New Nightmare as the actors now played themselves and Gale would've joined on the fun.

I know it'll never happen, but I would actually love to see the Lakewood story given a proper finish.