Regardless of how you feel about the movie we are now just a few short days away from the release of Scream 7. Yet alot of the folks over on X remain just as divided on that film as ever with alot of people hating the idea of existing and others such as myself being genuinely excited to see the new film as it's the latest entry in a series that we all love and yet now the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about is being dragged in the mud for quite literally no reason what so ever so then join me as I review the film that sees Ghostface join Jason in taking New York with the film in question being called simply just "Scream VI" enjoy.
The plot of this film is one year after the events of the first film Sam , Tara , Chad and Mindy and a new group of friends including a returning Kirby and Gale find themselves at the centre of new Ghostface killings and have to find who he killer or killers are before it's to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this film was in all honesty really good with the makers of the film making the very wise choice to move the action away from Woodsboro as there only so many times that you can return there before it starts to get dull and boring and moving the action to New York means that the film can have this bigger plot where te killer can come out of anywhere something which the film does take full advantage of and while yes this film plot is the typical Scream plot it's what it does with that plot and set up that makes it interesting as having the whole plot effectively centre around the sisterly bond between Sam and Tara is something that does set this film apart as e get to see both character deal with the trauma of the previous film in there own way and while yes it would have been better if the film did have a much more stronger plot to it as the film doesn't really focus on it's plot all that much with the film picking up and dropping it's plot quite alot of the time it's when the film focuses on it's plot that it's story gets to be really interesting and intriguing with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring inn this film is Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter , Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin. Also starring in this film is Jack Champion as Ethan Landry , Henry Czerny as Christopher Stone , Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Liana Liberato as Quinn Bailey , Dermot Mulroney as Wayne Bailey , Devyn Nekoda as Anika Kayoko , Tony Revolori as Jason Carvey , Josh Segarra as Danny Brackett , Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis , Samara Weaving as Laura Crane , Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed , Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers and Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this film was in all honesty really good. With this being something that's not really all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors with this being something that is proven again in this film due to the fact that there's not a single bad performance in the whole film that doesn't mean to say that there aren't scenes that could have had better acting in them it just means that the quality of the acting in the film as a whole is one that's really quite high and heck any film has scenes in them that don't have as good acting when compared to the rest of the film but here in this film you can tell that all of the films actors both returning and new have a level of care and respect for this franchise as they all do give it there best and because of that we do get new characters that feel perfectly well cast and performances that fit the film perfectly with the best actor in the whole entire film being Melissa Barrera which yes might be a cliche thing to say but it is also the most truest thing that you could say about this film from an acting point of view as she really does nail the role of Sam Carpenter down perfectly with her scenes with Jenna being alot of the best non kill scenes in the film with the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that the script for this film is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance ill come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting thats in this very film.
Where this film really does shine is in it's characters as be they old characters or newly introduced characters this film does have some well done characters. With characters like Kirby and Sam being a good example of just how good that this films characters are as Kirby feels like how she did in Scream 4 with her retaining her wit and love of horror movies only ow she has the expirence of knowing what it's like to go through a Ghostface attack thanks to the events of the fourth film with the same thing also being true for the character of Sam as well as thanks to the events of the previous film she's now become to over protective of Tara so much so that it gets to the point where it's starting to drive a wedge between them something which does actually form the characters arc for this film as she has to learn not to be so overprotective of her sister with this being something that does make for an interesting change in her character as it does make sense that after almost being killed by someone that she would want to protect her sister due to the fact that these attacks could and in this case do happen again with both Chan and Mindy not really having any character growth inbetween the two films with them both being the same comedic relief characters that they were in the previous film with the only difference now being that Chad has a thing for Tara and that's it with the writing for the rest of the characters being fine but nothing that's to out there with both Quinn and Ethan being serviceable characters and you can't really get Gale wrong as there are five other films that pretty much tell you how to write her character with the only somewhat badly written character being Wayne Bailey and even then it's mostly due to the fact that he's not in the film all that much in the first place.
Pretty much since the release of Scream 4 fans had been wondering what happened to Kirby as for one reason or another this character just struck a chord with them. With this film being the film that brought her back into the franchise to not only reveal that she survived the events of the fourth film but thrived because of it with her becoming an FBI agent so that she can track down and stop other potential Ghostface attacks from happening in the first place which in theory isn't a bad idea but when you take into account that she missed the previous film it is something that makes you wonder if she was good at her job due to the fact that she missed a whole slate of killings one of which included someone that she may or may not have gotten close to even the fourth film and also featured the death of someone that she would have been close to in Dewey and while yes it was great that the makers of this film did indeed listen to the fans and gave them exactly what they wanted they opened up a whole other can of worms by NOT explaining where she was during the events of Scream 2022 as she is someone who does have interest in these Ghostface killings so she would therefor want to help out when a new set of killings happens in her own hometown but credit where it is due it was fun seeing her interact with Mindy as even tho they are both the Randy character of there group of friends they do have some great banter together that do help to make this film be more entertaining as you never really know just what it is that there going to say or do next but whilst her banter with Mindy was really good it's the fact that the makers of this film don't take the time to explain why she wasn't in the previous film as they go out of there way to explain why Sidney isn't in this film and yet for Kirby they don't do that this is despite the fact that they went out of there way to bring the character back in the first place.
If there's one thing that this film should get alot of credit it's for the fact that the film does take as full advantage of it's New York setting as it possible could have done. As while yes granted Scream 3 also had a big city setting it didn't take full advantage of that with alot of the kills in that film happening inside whereas here we do get attacks that happen in New York based locations like the attack on the bodega for example that is something that could only work in this film as it would feel almost out of place in any of the other films and another great example being the scene where Mindy gets attacks on the subway near the end of the movie as that is a scene that once again could only happen in this film and it's scenes like those two scenes that do prove that the makers of this film really wanted to take full advantage of it's New York setting and because of that they helped to make New York feel like a character in this movie as now the city itself is being attacked by Ghostface an while Jason Voorhees only walked around New York for a little bit before getting killed of in Jason Takes Manhattan Ghostface actually goes to these extremes to make you terrified of being in New York and that is something that the makers of this film really didn't have to do as they could have had it be the typical Scream movie but it's now set in New York and that's it but it's the fact that they went out of there way to make New York feel like character in this film and to have attacks you could only see in this film that do help to make this film be alot more better and while yes it would have been nice if we did get to see more of New York as that would have helped the location feel alot less like Woodsboro it's not something that was really needed to sell you on the film as the very idea of having Ghostface running New York is more then enough to get you excited for this film in the first place.
Where this film does start to fail is in it's mystery aspect as one of the things that people do go to these films for is to work out who is committing the kills in the film. Yet the film doesn't really do a good enough of not only making the killers be memorable characters outside of there roles as Ghostface but the film doesn't even give us any clues as to who the they are in the first place and yet if you contrast this with the first film we did get plenty of kills as to who was committing the kills in that film be it from Billy dropping his phone right after a Ghostface attack to all of the looks that both Billy and Stu share with each other other when Stu acts a little bit to crazy all of which might not seem like much at first but they are things that clue you into the fact that those characters aren't good guys where as here in this film we get none of that which does mean that when we do get to the reveal of Quinn , Ethan and Wayne all being the killers for the film with Wayne being more of a behind the scenes guy due to his age and Quinn and Ethan being the ones that actually kill people it is something that does come out nowhere as the film not only doesn't build up any of them apart from Ethan as suspects but they also don't give us any clues so that we the audience can work it out for our selves with the only thing that might be a clue being the fact that Quinn mentions that she had a brother that die in a car crash and that's it and that's not enough as we need more then that to go off of and yet it's something that the makers of this film fail to do which is something that does make this films mystery feel a lot more weaker then what it should have been.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and five minuets and ten seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these films and to be fair to this film it does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet in saying this tho the film really doesn't take the time that it had to fully develop it's plot in the first place with it seeming like that the characters are just doing things for random reasons as so much of what the characters do in this film is in purpose of the films plot as rather it's just an excuse to get some of them in a certain location for a Ghostface attack when that is screen time that would be better served in developing the films plot with the same thig also being true for the films characters as well as the film doesn't take the time to develop alot of it's characters with the only character that gets some form of character development being Sam and that's really it as all of the other films characters getting none whatsoever even Gale who gets a phone call from Ghostface in this film gets no character development which fair enough you could argue the case that she gets her character development in the other films and therefor doesn't need it in this film however that is not something that applies to the other characters as even alot of the returning characters apart from Sam get nothing interms of character development when it would have made sense for the makers of the film to give characters like Quinn , Ethan and Wayne character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film having some really good kills as the makers of the film going as over the top as they could do with the films gore without the film becoming an outright parody of itself something which it very easily could have done with the films kills being made all the more effective due to the fact that there is some small effort to make Ghostface scary something which is helped by the fact that the film is set in a location where he can come out of the shadows and attack people from anywhere which is something that is made all the more effective by the fact that there's three people as Ghostface with the best kill in the film not even being a kill as it's the subway attack on Mindy as what makes that scene so well done being the fact that the makers of the film build up alot of tension with there being alot of people on both subways dressed up as Ghostface all of whom could very easily attack one of the main characters of the film with the editing doing a good job of selling you on the fact that it could be Sam's group that gets attacked only for the rug to be pulled and reveal that it's Mindy that gets attacked with the scene in Sam and Tara's apartment being a very close second place for that exact same reason with his film being filled to the brim with alot of good kills and while yes all of the kills in this film barring one are just people being stabbed part of what makes them work so well is the tension that's being built up and that is something that this film does really well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall no matter what you think of this film the one thing that cannot be denied is the fact it is a film that proves that the franchise can tell these unique stories with it's characters and still tell the typical Scream story so regardless of what you think of both this film , the next film or the previous film please keep it civil in the comments as we are all Scream fans after all an that is something that we should all be very proud of being in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.



































