#scream review

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Scream: Revenge of the Scream

I think the trick in the Scream franchise is, if you put on the Ghost Face Mask, you instantly get superhuman athletic abilities and stealth. It does not matter what your background is, if you put on the Ghost Face mask and grab a knife, you can outmuscle anyone and anything. But as soon as you take if off you’re a bag of meat.

What is this movie?

It’s Scream VI.

How scary is it?

The Ghost Face masks still looks cool and this one’s pretty suspenseful and intense, moreso than most of these movies.

Although it’s not scary for me because I know I would solo all of the Ghost Faces.

Jump Scares?

Yeah, Ghost Face pops out of places.

Is there blood and gore?

More than usual in these Scream movies. It gets pretty filthy actually.

How dumb are the characters?

Not that dumb, but I mean, they routinely split off in moments where they should know they are being hunted.

“We’re the temple of Ghost Face? I’m going to storm off and sit alone by myself.”

Does the story make logical sense if you think about it too long?

No, but you could probably rationalize certain things.

So...

This is the most intense Scream movie actually. It was a bit darker feeling than the one before, but it still had some corn toward the climax (in a good way). It really leveraged the New York setting better than basically any other movie I’ve seen in New York in the past while, and a lot of movies are set in New York. It feels tight, claustrophobic.

There’s some good character work, and I do like Sam and Mindy in particular. Sam has the most interesting arc and Mindy is just charismatic. It’s fun that Kirby also appears, for some reason.

Anyways, 8/10. I have a lot of spoiler-y thoughts below. I wanna talk about the ladder scene.

I watched Chad get stabbed and thought, “Yup, that’s as definitive a death as there can be, man got eviscerated.” I swear, man matched Dewey’s whole career.

Kirby got fully loaded too, shot and stabbed multiple times and walked it off.

I recognized Tony Revolori’s voice in the beginning and thought, “Damn, I just found out who the killer was” then he popped out and I thought, “Damn they’re doing this movie from Ghost Face’s perspective, which is sick.” They should honestly do that.

“I’m not a murderer” she says to a man she stabbed a good 30 times, who, for some reason, thinks he’s going to live.

I didn’t think the killer reveal was that bad. It wasn’t as good as Jack Quaid being the killer, but I mean, I like how the boy looked like Jack Quaid a bit. Could be his younger brother!

I literally stop being intimidated by Ghost Face as soon as they take off their mask. They only had strength in numbers here.

I kept expecting Sam to kick it up a notch earlier. In the ladder scene, she was the only non-wounded person. Unless you believe that she should have been the first to go because “save what you can,” I think she should have been the last on the ladder. She was the only one strong enough to hold the door against Ghost Face. Also, she’s got that Ghost Face killer instinct but just did not use it here. A 60-year-old dude is banging against the wall, but she could have found any blunt object to attack back with. I hope the next Scream uses the idea of the survivors having their own Ghost Face on their side more. Sam should be bodying these clowns.

[wroteonedad]

Scream (1996) Slayed

I feel as though this is something that I have probably mentioned a million times before which is that when I was growing up, I never had the attention span to be able to sit down and watch a movie. It feels my entire adult life is me playing catch up on the millions of cult classic movies and TV shows for me to finally be able to pick some favourites. I can finally say that I have watched enough movies that I am starting to notice that certain actors do keep popping up in many different franchises though.

Here is where the me watching films thing gets worse. While I was bedridden and sick with the flu last week, I decided that it would be a great idea for me to watch Scream, as in the new reboot of it with Ms Wednesday Addams that came out last year, but it was the second one she was in. I decided it would be great to miss a whole 25 years of the franchise and just delve into the brand new film as if I really knew anything about it. But oddly. I did end up quite enjoying that film too??? Anyway, to the point. Scream (1996) has to be one of the most camp horror cinematic masterpieces I have ever seen.

A movie that I simply decided I wanted to add to my list on Netflix as I was endlessly scrolling through my feed and looking for those no thoughts head empty types of films that I can revisit whenever I feel like it, which by that point half of those films already are not available on the platform to stream anymore. Scream however, is close to its Netflix execution as I opened the film and it reads 'last chance to watch 31 May', devastated, I accepted it and delved into the movie.

The opening scene of the movie is all for our favourite 90s girlie, Drew Barrymore as Casey. She is seen in her large American home situated in what looks like the British countryside as she is waiting for her boyfriend to arrive and is cooking popcorn ready to watch a horror movie when she receives a mystery call from Ghostface. Casey quickly hangs up, assuming the incorrect number has been dialled when he calls again, saying he just wants to talk to her. He flirts over the phone asking what her favourite horror movie is and that he'll tell her his name so long as she tells him hers before announcing on another phone call that she needs to answer some questions since her boyfriend is tied to a chair on the patio. When she is asked a trick question, Ghostface proceeds to gut him alive and then kill Casey. What is really iconic about this is that for the promotional means of this movie, it was Barrymore that was featured on all of the movie posters in order to hype the movie up, even though she is only in the film for an average of 6 minutes. But that's okay because Courtney Cox and Shaggy from Scooby Doo are also in the movie.

Cut to another home, also situated in this countryside area is where we meet Sidney. The same evening as the murder of Casey, we learn that Sidney's dad is going away for the weekend and we also meet her boyfriend, Billy. Billy gives off the energy of a bad popular boy from school and is quickly noted as an important main character for the duration of the movie.

It seems that news of the murder has spread around the highschool like wildfire, the following morning the place is swarming with news reporters and the authorities, who are viewing every person in the school as a suspect and quickly roll out a curfew across the town. We then meet Sidney's friends, who are all the important characters of the movie. Tatum, the pretty popular girl with the bubbly personality. Stu, the goofball of the group, though I'm sure I think that because he is literally Shaggy and despite him having such a range of roles, I cannot see him as anybody else ever. Then we also have Randy, the friendship groups loveable loser. This guy works in the video store and is a huge horror movie buff, which of course makes him the most meta character in the movie.

I just want to add to this that the other main character worthy of any note is of course Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox), the lady that is hyperfixated on the supernatural, the life of Ghostface and writing an entire conspiracy theory book on the murder of Sidney's mother Maureen. Gale is the most slay character of this entire movie even if she always finds herself in the worst situations (being punched in the face, murdered like 4 times in this movie alone etc, but she is the most girlboss of them all).

Ghostface then decides to target Sidney, he is the killer of her mother a year prior. Sidney slates him, claiming that he is full of empty threats and how embarrassing it is to be the protagonist in a horror movie where you are nothing but a bad actor with huge boobs running up the stairs away from the bad guy. Sidney is also targeted by a fake Ghostface at school, which to be honest I was convinced it was the real guy the whole time. I also forgot the part where by this point in the story, Ghostface had already attempted to kill Sidney once where he disappears and Billy shows up within seconds of Ghostface leaving. Suspicious? I think so too.

Sidney ends up staying over at Tatum's place where we also meet Dewey Riley (Tatum's brother), the local police officer who becomes more of as welfare officer to Sidney during this time. Except for when Sidney literally leaves the room for one minute, she is once again being contacted by Ghostface.

Shortly after in the story, the principal decides to suspend all classes with immediate effect. 5 minutes later, he is also murdered by Ghostface. There is a scene of him wandering around the office area of the school, as if sensing the presence of Ghostface and instead scaring himself every time he caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror, any mirror. His murder is forgotten about for a little while in the story as Stu decides to plan a big house party to celebrate all class suspension while his parents are also out of town. Truthfully I think all of these parents just don't care what happens to their kids while there's a literal killer on the loose.

Let's flashforward to the main event, Stu's party. Officer Dewey decided to drive Sidney and Tatum to the party which is weird because I thought the town had a curfew and all of the students at the school were considered to be suspects in the murder of Casey and her boyfriend (I'm really sorry, I forgot his name because he was nothing in the movie to me).

Ironically, this party is also the place for Ghostface to really unleash themselves.

Tatum goes down to the garage to fetch some more beers out of the fridge. Sadly for her, Ghostface appears, trapping her into the garage. At first, she tries to leave through the garage door before Ghostface abruptly closes it in front of her. She looks at him dead in the eye before saying the one sentence that stole the entire movie, 'No, please don't kill me Mr Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!'. Spoiler alert, she isn't. After pelting him with bottles of beer, she then decides to try and escape through the cat flap at the bottom of the garage door. She maybe gets about a fifth of her body through this before Ghostface decides to open up the door, crushing poor Tatum's body and killing her.

Downstairs Randy (remember him) is showing the rest of the party horror movies, explaining the three things you should never do in a horror movie. A, never have sex. Sidney and Billy have decided to make up at this point of the film and she is upstairs losing her virginity. B, never drink alcohol. This causes the whole party to cheer as they then shortly after find out the principal was killed and they all decide to leave the party so they can see that which is so ???? And C, never say I'll be right back because you will not be back at all. This is the line that Gale Weathers says to her news guy before going for a walk with Dewey. Randy then proceeds to watch horror movies featuring a young Jamie Lee Curtis in them where he is seen saying 'BEHIND YOU' where Ghostface is also behind Randy.

It then ends up with Ghostface locating Sidney, killing Billy and then chasing Sidney around to kill her too. There is a wild goose chase scene, she finds Tatum hanging from the garage door and locks herself into a car without the keys before running into the newscasters van where he is also killed by Ghostface in front of Sidney. She then manages to escape where she finds that Billy is still alive and opens the front door to a hysterical Stu and Randy. I forgot what happened to Randy because he just seemed to disappear for a good portion of the end action scene for whatever reason. Randy claims that Stu has gone mad when Billy slams the door on Stu's face to which he reveals 'we all go a little mad sometimes' revealing him as one of the killers. It is quickly revealed that Stu is the other Ghostface and since Gale has been filming everything in the living room, she has the whole scoop that she needs to cover the whole reveal.

To summarise, Billy dies another three times before finally apparently dying, Gale keeps dying but the girlboss also came back to life so she could shoot Billy. I think the best way to describe the very end of the movie is with this.

I loved how self-aware this movie really was. To be a first movie from the franchise and parody itself well is one hell of a skill to have and I enjoyed every minute of this film. I think that Randy was done so dirty considering he essentially carried how meta this film was and I would like to hope that I see him come back in the future films. I haven't actually seen them yet so I need to spend some time getting through the whole franchise here. It's also fun to see a character like Sidney who is portrayed as the strong smart woman, I feel like this is something that was rather uncommon for a film in the 90s and so that was fun. No matter what happens too, Gale Weathers is the ultimate girlboss and there is nothing anyone can say to me that could possibly change that. It just makes sense to me that this movie is a cult classic.

[horrorlamb]

The Franchise FIles - Scream (2022)

Spoilers ahead. Scream 2022 is the first film in the franchise not directed by Wes Craven after he died back in 2015. It is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Kevin Williamson returned as an executive producer, and is credited as a writer, along with James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Let’s see how the reboot I won’t be calling it a requel lives up.It is set 25 years after the…

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'Scream VI' Movie Review

Scream VI has arrived! The iconic horror series returns for its 6th instalment, introducing a new generation to the iconic Ghostface. After last year’s Scream 5 proved to be a huge box office success, the series is back! The film has the same core cast from the previous film except for Neve Campbell aka the iconic Sidney Prescott. Set around the four survivors of the Ghostface murders, the…

[notjustspookyathalloween]

Check out my review of scream, I’m doing a countdown to scream 6 by reviewing each movie in the weeks leading up to the release, hope you all enjoy

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Horror Films are Fun

(ABC Film Review Magazine, March 1970)

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Scream VI

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“think we’ll be ok” why is he so cute 😭

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your honor they're everything

[cloudywithachanceofjam]

reading the lukewarm guardian review of trop s2 bc I’m bored at work and I’m SORRY????

sorry please run that by me again galadriel wanted to do WHAT

BOFF HIM

BOFF HIM

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Billy x Stu Headcanons

This duo was voted the most, beating dps hc by a mere 15.4% at the time writing this! So here's Stuilly headcanons for my slashers!

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FLUFF

Stu would finish two popsicles just to put the sticks in his mouth to mimic a walrus, making Billy chuckle after a stressful day

Stu would listen to Wannabe by Spice Girls to clean his room

Billy likes to ask Stu to put his guy liner on as an excuse to be close to him

Billy has a horror collection that he often adds to as a nice hobby when he isn't killing

Stu's favorite movie is Killer Klowns from Outerspace

Billy hates physical touch, but Stu is the opposite, sometimes when Billy needs to cheer Stu up, he'll give him a hug of encouragement

Stu loves to setup cute slumber party activities when Billy comes over for the winter.

Couple tries to do arts and crafts but gets too irritated, Stu begs Billy to not give up

Stu makes a lot of puns and Billy pretends they aren't good

NSFW

They often use and incorporate knife play into their bedroom time

Stu love to piss Billy off because he knows it will lead to good sex

Billy gets off to Stu squirming under him

Stu loves getting degraded

I hope you guys enjoyed, it's not a lot but it's just some I think about! Hope you had a KILLER time! Get it? Killer?

[horrorlamb]

The Franchise Files - Scream 4

Scream 4 takes place in 2011. 10 years after the events of Scream 3. Still directed by Wes Craven and thankfully Kevin Williamson returned to write the script, although Weinstein did hire Kruger from Scream 3 to “polish” the script, which is an odd choice after firing him from that movie. The movie starts off with a cold open kill just like the other movies, which turns out to be a scene from…

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guys i am so fucking funny, who wants me

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— lockwood & co: the screaming staircase (2013)

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2024 reads / storygraph

Compound Fracture

YA thriller set in rural West Virginia

follows an autistic trans boy who survives being almost killed by the Sheriff’s son after a party, and accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him when he tries to get back at him

and is pulled head-first back into the 100 year old feud between his & the sheriff’s families, that began when his great-great grandfather was executed after inciting a miner’s rebellion, the grandfather whose ghost has started to haunt him

community & family & socialist revolution

aro-questioning MC

arc from netgalley, out september 3