Scream 7

Won't watch the trailer but I assume it's a Neve Campbell film and will ignore the survivors of the last one since none of them are coming back.

Courteney Cox is back as well, but apart from those two, it appears to be an all-new cast with Anna Camp, Joel McHale and McKenna Grace.

Scream 7 – 4/10

We’ve all seen and heard of sequels like this being described as having ‘affection’ or ‘respect’ for the original. Well, this one takes it to a new level. It’s so deeply, madly and sycophantically in love with the original that the estate of Wes Craven could file for a restraining order. 

The script is diabolical, to the point where it’s a miracle that the likes of Campbell and Cox manage to get their lines out without either stifling laughter or crying. Worst of all, it appears terrified to commit to its own premise out of fears of being labelled a farce. Well, I hate to break it to you…

The ending of Scream 6 was rubbish. Looks like this is taking it to an even lower level. I'll still watch it of course.

Scream 8 in the works with the same director set to return 🙄

Not defending the movie, but it was directed by Kevin Williamson who wrote the scripts for Scream 1 and 2 (and some parts of Scream 4), so the "Wes Craven's estate" dig is really not needed. Williamson's ideas are as import to the success of the franchise as Craven's directing.

More likely they'll focus on the daughter as a final girl now, which would suck because she's a bland Jennifer Lawrence lookalike.

The only thing left for this franchise to do is do a Wes Craven's New Nightmare on it and then call it a day.

No, I mean a full on New Nightmare style movie where the Hollywood actors from the Scream movies are being picked off by Ghostface. It'd bring the whole thing full circle and be a nice tribute to Craven.

Well it's finally become the thing it was originally showing up. Kevin Williamson wrote all films in the franchise but this is his first in the directing chair. The film has broken all records for the series so he'll probably be back but it's definitely the worst of them. They're part of a genre of films where you shout "don't go in there" and "why would you do that?" but this takes that to a new mind numbingly dumb level. I hope Neve Campbell made bank after refusing to return in the last one. Campbell's daughter is awful in it. The murders seemed to really go over the top this time in a Final Destination way. I turned to my mate about 20 minutes in and told him the killer. Awful stuff.

3/10

I enjoyed the earlier entries and thought Scream 5 or whatever the soft reboot was labeled was ok. But this was just bad. A terrible movie, nothing new or worthwhile in it at all. Time to put the series to rest I think.