The Scream films for better or for worse are films that are going to be getting alot more attention over the next year or so and have been getting more and more popular since the mid to late 2010's with the release of Scream: The TV Series. However alot of the Scream films or at least the vast majority of them have all taken place in one small town with only two films moving the location to somewhere else and so then join me as I review the film that gives Ghostface his biggest canvas and location change yet 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 previous film Sam , Tara , Chad and Mindy and all of their new friends find themselves trying to survive a new set of Ghostface attacks only this time Ghostface is more dangerous then he or she has ever been before now. 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 very film was in all honesty really good as while the plot of this film could be seen as being very formulaic as it is just the stereotypical Scream plot with not alot added to it what new elements that the returning film making team add to this films plot like the subplot with the sub plot with Sam seeking counseling due to the events of the first film and the fact that the Carpenter sisters also have a subplot is more then enough to make this films plot come across as feeling fresh and new all other again and that is something that really is needed to keep the Scream films moving forward as it is very easy to write a Scream plot as all you have to do is have someone attacking a bunch of kids and have one of the kids try to work out who it is wince and repeat and that's it and as a result of that is the fact that this is franchise that demands that new stuff be added to the plot of each film with this films plot being being one of the best ones yet 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 in 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 Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin , Jack Champion as Ethan Landry , Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers , Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed , Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis , Henry Czerny as Christopher Stone , 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 , Samara Weaving as Laura Crane 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 i this very film was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's to be expected as alot of this films are not only a bunch of really good actors in there own right but are also reprising there roles from previous films and so they would of course know how best to play there respective character with a special shout out going to Hayden Panettiere who despite only playing Kirby once almost ten years prior to making this film really does step back into her character perfectly almost as if she had just finished filming on Scream 4 the day before starting filming on this movie with the best performer in this whole entire film being either Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter or Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface as both actors are just so good in this film with Melissa maturing her character and her performance in a way that feels natural and in character given everything that her character went through in the last film and Roger just being oddly really creepy in this movie which is something that does oddly enough work for the voice of Ghostface with the acting that's in this film also being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all that this films actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
If there was one thing that the fans wanted from Scream 2022 it was the return of Kirby and that was one thing that we got in this film. With her inclusion in this film really proving that this films directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett along with screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick really are not only fans of the franchise as a whole but are also willing to listen to what the fans want and actually give it to them both of which are things that they really don't have to do and yet it's because that they did that that we got a continuation of Kirby that made sense as after experiencing one of the Ghostface killings fast hand she would of course want to go into a profession where she could hopefully someday prevent another series of attacks either from Ghostface or from someone else and thus prevent someone else from experiencing the kind of pain that she herself went through and it helps that she really is still deep down the same horror obsessed nerd that she was in Scream 4 with her interaction with Mindy being one of the funniest interactions in the whole movie as they each try to suss the other one out just based of what kind of horror movies that they like which is not only a really funny scene in it's own right but it's also one that feels true to both of there respective characters as well and while she does have a funny exchange with Gale as well it's not going to top the one that she has with Mindy plus the one with Gale really doesn't make sense anyways as Gale actually helped her out during the events of Scream 4.
As alot of are all no doubt aware this film is the first Scream film not to feature Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott. As while Neve was offered a role in the film the money she offered wasn't good enough for her to sign on which is something that I do give Neve alot of credit as she stood up for herself and knew what she was worth given that she is franchises main heroine and while she is indeed coming back for Scream 7 it is interesting to wonder where her character would have fitted into this film as there's not really alot of room for her character in this film not at least in it's final form anyways as maybe they could have replaced Kirby with her and that's how she gets brought back into the fold as having just conveniently taking a holiday in New York at the same time that these attacks are happening does seem to be a little to convenient and as such the writers of this film would have to find a clever way to bring her character back into the story in a way that feels natural to her character and not something that doesn't work for either her character or the film as whole but given just how tightly lacked with characters that this film already is maybe it's better that she wasn't in this movie and the fact that she's not and that the movie was still really good in it's own right and was still a box office hit as well does prove that not every single Scream film needs to have the Sidney Prescott character in it in order for it to be a good film.
One of the things that really didn't work in this film was the fact that they reveled a fake Ghostface early on in the movie. Which they do give a narrative reason for that which does make alot of sense at the same time tho there's not reason to have two groups of Ghostface's running around New York when you could have had the main trio of Ghostface killers be the one that kills of Samara Weaving's character as that character was meant to be a teacher at the school that Tara is also going to as well it would be something that would make her a prime target as heck they even attacked Sam's therapist just because he knew her and that was really it and while having the fake Ghostface killer remove his mask at the start of the film is a good way to tell us the audience that this film is going to be doing things alot more differently then what we know that one act of having him remove his mask just to get killed off a few scenes later makes that whole point null and void anyway as not only does the film stick to the Scream formular apart from two scenes in the movie Ghostface himself doesn't really act any different then what he usually does and yet if they did remove the fake Ghostface then it would have shown that these killers really do know everything about the Carpenter sister and that they can attack anyone in their lives who knows them thus making Ghostface alot more of dangerous and unpredictable in this film.
The one thing that ALL Scream movies should do is oddly enough one of the things that this movies doesn't do and that's give us clues as to whom the killer or killers might be. As maybe outside of one line of dialog from Wayne Bailey there's nothing in this movie that makes him out to be a suspect which does make sense as he's meant to be the brains of the bunch which if that's the case then his kids Quinn and Ethan are meant to be the muscle of the group as there the ones committing alot of the kills and yet there's no clues given all throughout the film that implements any of them to be the Ghostface killer of this film heck all you'd need from Ethan is one line of dialog just saying that's he's a fan of either horror , true crime fiction or of Sam herself and that right there would make him a suspect and it's the same for Quinn just one line of dialog is all it would take and it would make all of there actions in the film now seem suspicious and yet because of the fact that the film doesn't do any of that when all three are revealed to be the ones committing the crimes in this film it really does come out of left feel as while there motive does make sense as they reveal that Richie one of the killers from the previous movie was there brother and so they of course wanted revenge of Sam for killing him you still need to give us clues so that us the audience can work it out for ourselves and not have to have it to be spelled out for us at the very end of the film but to be fair tho having Quinn fake her own death so that nobody would suspect her is a pretty good idea tho so there's that at least.
Now then this movie has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and two minuets and thirty one seconds. Which if memory serves does make this film one of if not the longest film in the Scream series but that might not be true tho but it does help that this film really does have the absolutely right amount of plot there to really cover that large amount of running time and while the film doesn't really use it's running time that wisely as it doesn't give us clues as to who the main killers are in this film it does take the time to fully develop it's characters both old and new and it also does take the time to tell us what characters like Kirby who haven't been seen for well over a decade at this point in time have been up to since we last saw them and again to the films credit it does advance the characters that came back from the previous film in a way that feels true to there characters with even the hint of Sam possibly becoming a Ghostface killer in a possible future Scream being something that was set up in the previous movie and while the new characters are fully developed characters in there own right there's really nothing about them that makes them standout from the rest of the core four and as such they do just fall into the background when they are the characters that the makers of this film should be making sure that us the audience really do know about and remember but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now the as this is a slasher film 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 of the most memorable kills in Scream history as all of this films kills are not only really well built up as you could even argue that the build to the kill is more scarier then the actual kill itself alot of the time but alot of this films kill are either really inventive or have settings that we really haven't seen in a slasher film before as while yes we did get a scene in Jason Take Manhattan with Jason Voorhees on a subway train but he never killed anyone on it and yet here one of this films Ghostface killers does stab Mindy and even the films infamous ladder kill is something that we really haven't seen done before now and it's something that does work really well for this film as the scene itself is not only really tense in the first place but this kill along with the whole bodega scene really does go to show you that this film Ghostface killers are alot more brutal and a lot more violent then what the previous killers where Richie included with the best kill in this whole movie isn't a kill as it's the scene with Mindy and Ethan on the subway as the editing and the pacing for that whole scene makes it not only a really memorable sequence in it's own right but also a really creepy and scary one as well which really does just go to show you that you don't need a kill in a slasher movie to be scary you just need it to actually be scary and that's really it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this film might be the last Scream film for the current film making team as Scream 7 is due to be directed by franchise creator Kevin Williamson this is one heck of a film to go out on and no matter happens in the next entry this is a film that will always be remembered for just how good that it is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well 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 an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat 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 . Tenor 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 Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and 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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