Movie: Scream (2022) Caution: Spoiler Alert

 

Scream

Came out; 2022

Time; 1 hours 54 minutes

Watched: Amazon

Rating; R for strong bloody violence, language throughout and some sexual references

MDB Rating; 6.4/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott

Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers

David Arquette as Dewey Riley

Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter

Jack Quad as Richie Kirsch

Mikey Madison as Amber Freeman

Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter

Dylan Minnette as Wes Hicks

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin

Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin

Sonia Ammar as Liv McKenzie

Marley Shelton as Sheriff Judy Hicks

Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis

Kyle Gallner as Vince Schneider

Chester Tam as Deputy Vinson

Heather Matarazzo as Martha Meeks

Story Line.

Like the original movie 25 years ago, a cute teenage girl is at home alone when the phone rings. A man wants to play a game with her. With the threat of killing her best friend, Tara's forced to play along. She barely survives the ghost face masked intruder's stabbing. Her 5-year older sister, Sam(antha), who left home at 18 due to mental problems, Sam's boyfriend and Tara's high school friends visit her at the hospital. Later on in a bar, a guy provokes the friends and is later attacked outside in the parking lot by Ghostface. Sam receives a call from him at the hospital and then he unsuccessfully attacks her. She later reveals family secrets to her sister. Sam contacts one of the original victims, Dewey, for help. He warns two other original victims, Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers, about Ghostface being back. Who is Ghostface? How many more must die?

Thoughts.

This whole movie brought me back to the 90's. I loved the first Scream movie and even watched the fun series on TV. The box set of the first 3 was the first ever DVD purchase I ever made! Yes, I just showed my age a little but who cares?!

If you don't like graphic gore in your horror movies, don't watch this. I was a little shocked that they made it so gory, I don't mind it, it doesn't bother me, but it took away from the originality.

So many people die in this movie, the connection was told to us early on in the movie, also, I suck at this sometimes with movies, but I got one right!

I very much loved that they made the original characters show their age! It made it seem so surreal!

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

Twenty-five years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized the town of Woodsboro, high schooler Tara Carpenter is home alone and texting her friend, Amber Freeman. The landline rings and Tara answers only to be confronted by a sadistic caller, who forces her to answer horror trivia by threatening Amber's life. When she gets a question wrong, Ghostface breaks into the house and attacks Tara, breaking her leg and stabbing her multiple times; Tara survives the attack but is badly wounded.

Tara's friend and classmate Wes Hicks informs her older sister Sam Carpenter about the attack. Sam returns to Woodsboro with her boyfriend Richie to visit Tara at the hospital, offering to stay until she recovers. Meanwhile, Wes' mother, Sheriff Judy Hicks, gathers the rest of their friend group - Amber, twin siblings Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin, and Liv McKenzie - for questioning. Richie, who is unaware of the Stab franchise or its connection to Woodsboro, spends the majority of the hospital visit with Sam catching up on the franchise on YouTube to inform himself of the 'rules' the killer may follow (while another video reveals Kirby Reed survived the events 11 years earlier). After an encounter with Ghostface in the hospital cafeteria, Sam, who struggles with hallucinations of Billy Loomis, discloses to Tara that he is her biological father, the reason why she left town and became estranged from her. Meanwhile, Liv's summer fling Vince Schneider is tormented and murdered by Ghostface outside of a bar. Sam and Richie visit a reclusive Dewey Riley, who has been in a bad place ever since his divorce from Gale Weathers. The two ask for his help in stopping the killer, but he declines and kicks them out. However, Dewey contacts Sidney Prescott and Gale, changing his mind and joining the teens at Mindy and Chad's home. As they attempt to uncover the connection between the killer and Sam, Vince is revealed to be Stu's nephew. With the three attacks being on people related in some capacity to the original killers, Sam is accused of being the killer and angrily flees.

Meanwhile, Ghostface murders Judy and her son and as Sam and Dewey arrive on the scene, the latter reuniting with Gale in the process. Sam and Dewey rush to the hospital when they realize that Tara is in danger. At the hospital, Tara and Richie are attacked by Ghostface, who is apparently killed by an arriving Dewey. Sam, Tara, and Richie escape, but Dewey stays in an attempt to ensure Ghostface is dead, and is himself killed. Sidney returns to Woodsboro upon learning of Dewey's death and reunites with Gale at the hospital. Sidney asks Sam to help take down the killer, but she declines, choosing to leave Woodsboro with Richie and Tara instead. Sidney, having placed a tracker on Richie's car, follows the trio with Gale to Amber's, revealed to be Stu's old house. As the party is in progress to honor Wes' memory, Liv attempts to have sex with Chad, but he declines and accuses her of being the killer but later makes his way outside to apologize, where he is seemingly killed by Ghostface. Mindy is also attacked but Sam intervenes and manages to fend off Ghostface. As the group accuse each other of being Ghostface, Amber shoots and kills Liv, revealing herself as the killer. The rest of the group scatter. When Gale and Sidney arrive, Amber feigns injury but Sidney nor Gale buy her performance and but Amber shoots Gale before running back inside. Sidney runs after her and searches for Amber who has now called her disguised as ghostface but Sidney has had enough and hangs up saying she's 'bored', as Sidney continues to search the house she accidentally injures Richie who is hiding. Suddenly Ghostface attacks Richie before throwing himself and Sidney over the railing and onto the ground floor. Sam is surprised to see Richie alive, but he reveals himself as Tara's attacker and Amber's accomplice, stabbing her.

Amber and Richie take Sam, Sidney, and Gale into the kitchen, revealing they are obsessively dedicated fans of the Stab series, disappointed in its trajectory and wishing to revive the franchise with a new killing spree to act as "source material" and defend fans from the "toxic fandom" label they feel they have unjustly received. Amber goes to retrieve the captured Tara but is attacked by her, having been untied by Sam; this distracts Richie long enough for Sidney and Sam to briefly overpower him. Sidney and Gale fight Amber while Sam fights Richie. Gale shoots Amber, who lands on the stove and is lit aflame before she is shot dead by Tara. Richie taunts a seemingly helpless Sam but she retrieves Amber's knife and stabs Richie multiple times in the chest and neck before unloading his gun into him. Tara and the Meeks twins, who actually survived, are taken to the hospital as Sam thanks Sidney and Gale for their help. Gale, refusing to report about the new murders to not give the killers notoriety, plans instead to write a touching tribute about Dewey. Several media crews descend on the house and start reporting about the murders.

At the end of the film, a tribute to Wes Craven is shown with the words "FOR WES" as the credits begin to roll.