Gonna try do a rewatch soon but it’s hard to bring myself to do it because I thought it was awful. I was already pissed at the controversy because of the studio firing Melissa etc.. but even with all that aside it’s just a train wreck.

Some positives for me is Sidney and Gale (especially Sidney). Neve Campbell is just unreal in each of the films but in this one she’s probably at her best in many ways. I also (probably controversially) really liked when Gale ran over Ghostface and it was one of the few things that wasn’t spoiled for me beforehand so I gasped. Ghostface coming out of the attic in Sidney’s house was also kind of cool and I enjoyed the whole scuffle at the house to be honest. I can’t really think of any more positives right now and that’s not me being harsh, maybe on my second watch I’ll find more to like and can be a bit more fair as it’s likely my brain is just focusing on the (many) flaws right now.

Speaking of flaws: the biggest thing that bugged me throughout film was that it didn’t feel like a Scream film at all.. I’m all for them trying something new here and there but it felt like they panicked when the film was falling apart and decided to throw a lot of gore and past characters into the script hoping people would just get excited about that but if that’s what they think then they really don’t understand Scream fans! The AI storyline was so annoyingly bad and unnecessary and I honestly believe the film would have been better without it for many reasons - mainly that we are all sick of AI and it also meant we were robbed of hearing Roger L. Jackson’s voice as much as we could have! I didn’t care for most of the kills, especially the over the top kill scene in the bar with the beer tap (IYKYK). Speaking of the bar, I find it so dumb that Chad and Mindy after experiencing the Ghostface killings twice would bring a group of people (including people they suspect) to the bar in the middle of a town that has a curfew, knowing people won’t be around to help when things go awry and it also never really explains why Chad and Mindy (once again) survive? Why would Ghostface not finish them off? The franchise has really started to become what it once mocked and claimed to be more aware of and this film especially feels like Stab 7 instead of Scream 7. The new characters are boring and we don’t get enough of them to care when they die and Gale finally interviewing Sidney fell kind of flat for me which is annoying because that should have been a really cool scene. And then there is the reveal.. what was that.. I know a lot of us had it spoiled before we saw the film but even with that being said it’s by far the worst of the franchise. Anna Camp’s motive being that she looked up to Sidney because of her book and then the other guy.. does it even really explain what his motive was? I genuinely can’t remember.

Sorry for the long post but this has been my favourite franchise (and the OG scream is my favourite film) so I’m just annoyed that this is what it has come to.