![]() On par with the previous films, Scream’s new cast is aces, sharp on-the-rise actors and actresses who are given crunchy monologues to eat up and skeptical alibis to generate suspicion after every kill. This is how Scream largely gets away with an entirely new cast for this horror whodunit, stacked with characters who are either distant or direct relatives of Woodsboro favorites. In 2022, Scream is all about the “requel”: the reboot/sequel that has made a splash in not only horror but with every major Hollywood studio IP ( Halloween, Saw, Star Wars, The Matrix, the list goes on). Like Sidney discovered in the second and third Scream, running doesn’t always solve your problems, and the town’s legendary franchise-inspiring killer always finds a way to resurface the past. Rather, the fifth Scream’s focal point is a new final girl: Melissa Barrera’s Sam Carpenter, a lonely woman whose attempt at staying the fuck out of Woodsboro is foiled when her teenage sister, Tara (Ortega), is brutally attacked by a new Ghostface killer. Perhaps it helps that Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s Scream is not centered on Craven’s final three: Dewey (Arquette), Gale (Cox), and the one and only Sidney Prescott (Campbell). ![]() One of the few horror franchises that kept the same director over time, Craven brought the world of Woodsboro to life, so there was always going to be some trepidation from longtime franchise fans when approaching a fifth installment directed by Ready or Not Radio Silence team Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. A Scream without Wes Craven was always going to feel sad.
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