To say that 2023 was an OK year for horror films would be a huge understatement as there really wasn't that many horror films worth talking about. However there was a few that were worth talking with one of them being the sequel to the hugely popular Scream 2022 a film that was so popular that this film was rushed into development not long after the release of that film and so then join me as I review the film that sees Ghostface successfully take Manhattan with the film in question being called simply just "Scream VI" enjoy.
The p,lot of this film is one year after the events of the previous film Sam , Tara and friends find themselves the targets of a new set of Ghostface killings and have to find out who this new killer before it's far to late. Now the 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 ll honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being really fresh and new as it really adds a new spin to what could be considered a very warn out plot and yet at the same time tho it gives us enough of what we know and love fro the Scream films to feel safe and similar with this films plot also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin. Also starring in this film is Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter , Jack Champion as Ethan Landry , 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 , one of this films executive producers Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers , Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed 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 very film was in all honesty really good. Which really isn't all that surprising as this film is made up of a bunch of really good actors who really do know how to act and given that alot of this films cast are reprising their roles it makes sense that this film would feature some really good acting as they would know what kind of performance would best suit their respective characters with the acting in this film really being helped by the fact that the films script is just so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
As with the previous film this film does film does feature a returning character this one being Kirby Reed. With this character now being an FBI agent which doesn't really make sense for her character as she was never the smartest tool in the shed when it came to that sort of thing and while yes she was incredibly smart when it comes to horror movies that doesn't necessarily mean that she'd make a good FBI agent but on the flip side of that is the fact that it does make sense for her to take that career path given everything that she's gone through as she can now stop people from going through the same thing that she herself went through as well and as we see in this film she does use her street smarts to get the results that she needs and given all that she wen through she knows exactly what to look for in a case like this one something which does come in handy at several points in this film and it's something that proves that the makers of this film really did know what they were doing when it came to bringing her back into this truly iconic franchise.
Rather shockingly there really haven't been that many horror films that have been set in New York City. With the only two franchises to choose such a setting being Friday The 13th and Leprechaun which is rather odd as New York does offer a unique setting for scares and kills which would make it perfect for a horror film as the killer could quite literally come out of anywhere and given the fact that New York is a highly populated city it means that we're always guaranteed a high body count and yet for some reason there have been very horror films that have actually been set in New York City and even fewer that have actually filmed in New York City with alot of them opting to film in Canada or close to Canada and while this movie does make great use of it's setting and is indeed a better New York set horror movie then Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was it still would have been in this film was filmed in New York.
To this films credits it does make great use of it's setting by making the location feel like an actual character in the film. With the location itself looking lived in ans not the kind of location that you'd typically find in movies and unlike Jason Takes Manhattan this movie fully takes place in New York and really does the best that they can do given that there not filming in New York and while it would have helped the movie if they did actually film the whole movie there in New York it was most likely out of the films budget to do so and it would have also have most likely have made it impossible to hide who the films main killer is something which wouldn't have been an issue with Jason Takes Manhattan with this movie actually delivering on it's idea by having Ghostface actually killing innocent people just because he can do which does help to make the movie all the more scary as it means that anybody could be Ghostfaces next victim.
This film does have some firsts for the franchise some of which work while others not so much like the fact that this film to have a Ghostface killer unmasks himself at the start of the movie this is something is a good idea but at the same time it's not something that isn't really fleshed out interms of the plot of the film. What is fleshed out tho and what is a good idea is the fact that this is film in the franchise to have more then two people serve as Ghostface with this film introducing the idea of three people all serving as Ghostface and all of them all having the clear goal of avenging one of the killers of the previous film that being Richie Kirsch with the killers of this film being his brother Ethan Landry , his sister Quill Bailey and his father Wayne Bailey all of which are trying to avenge him and trying to continue what he and Amber Freeman started in the previous film.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this films grand total running time even was I do know that for a matter of fact that this film has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly two hours and two minuets. Which is both the perfect amount of running time for this film to have and yet at the exact same time is also a tad bit on the long side as well as this film really doesn't need to be as long as it is as you could very easily tell this films plot in well under two hours but at the exact same time tho if you did cut anything out of this film tho it would effect the films plot as alot of the scenes in this film are either adding to the plot of the film or are setting up things that wold be payed off later on in the film but I will admit tho that this film really does have some really good pacing in it tho.
So now then as is this a slasher film that means 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 the film really going above and beyond with all of it's kills alot of which are easily some of the best kills in the Scream franchise with the filmmakers really pushing the boundaries of what kind of kills they can really do even going so far as to giving Ghostface a shotgun something which the previous would never have done and yet it's something that works in this film and is apart of the one of the best sequences in the movie but the best kill however is the one on the ladder just due to how suspenseful that scene is with the kill in question also being rather unique as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film is such a good film and it's one that proves that Scream 2022 wasn't a fluke of a film either with this film adding to the story that they set up in that film and being just as good as that film was 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 means that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 8 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 the official Scream fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Scream fandom wiki page simply because the official Scream fandom wiki page actually has images from this film up on the official Scream fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official Scream fandom wiki page 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.
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