This article contains Scream spoilers.
Although it’s dropped the number from its title, don’t let the new Scream fool you: this is Scream 5 through and through, set 10 years after the last film and featuring plenty of the legacy characters you’d expect to see.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett–taking over for the late, dearly missed Wes Craven–previously hinted that this one will subvert the franchise even more than usual. And it does. For a few minutes. Unlike all four previous entries, the victim in the opening scene doesn’t die after being attacked by a brand new Ghostface. Instead Tara (Jenny Ortega) is badly wounded but survives–and her encounter draws her estranged sister Sam (Melissa Barrera) back to Woodsboro for the first time in years.
Sam, who comes to town with her dutiful, somewhat nerdy new boyfriend Richie (Jack Quaid), left Woodsboro because...
Although it’s dropped the number from its title, don’t let the new Scream fool you: this is Scream 5 through and through, set 10 years after the last film and featuring plenty of the legacy characters you’d expect to see.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett–taking over for the late, dearly missed Wes Craven–previously hinted that this one will subvert the franchise even more than usual. And it does. For a few minutes. Unlike all four previous entries, the victim in the opening scene doesn’t die after being attacked by a brand new Ghostface. Instead Tara (Jenny Ortega) is badly wounded but survives–and her encounter draws her estranged sister Sam (Melissa Barrera) back to Woodsboro for the first time in years.
Sam, who comes to town with her dutiful, somewhat nerdy new boyfriend Richie (Jack Quaid), left Woodsboro because...
- 1/18/2022
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
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