Scream 6

In 1996, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson birthed a horror icon: Ghostface, the cloak-wearing, knife-wielding killer of the Scream series, tormenting teenagers ...

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Scream VI post credit scene - Scream 6 takes aim at franchises, so does that also extend to the new movie having a post-credit scene like the MCU?

[Scream](https://www.digitalspy.com/scream/) has tended to keep all of its instalments self-contained with essentially zero setup for future movies. [mixed response from fans](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a42973875/scream-6-backlash-ghostface-change/). Unsurprisingly, Ghostface still finds them in the Big Apple and they face another fight for their lives. We won't spoil it here, but it's one of the funniest jokes in the new movie so it's worth sticking around for. [misses out this time around](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a43137611/scream-6-sidney-neve-campbell-exit/). [MCU](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a825774/marvel-cinematic-universe-in-chronological-order/)-style teaser for the future.

There's plenty of fun to be had in a gorier and smarter follow-up to last year's franchise relauncher.

The last act reveal is as goofy as one would expect but satisfyingly so for reasons impossible to explain without entering spoiler territory. There are brief but effective tinges of sadness (it’s the sixth film and a lot of people have died at this point) but it’s sprightly enough to not get bogged down by it, remembering the most important thing a Scream film should be is fun. What can be said is that there’s so much affection for what’s come before that it leads us to be that much more excited about what’s to come next. While we might have left the fifth film worried that the newer generation would ever be able to capture the same long-running chemistry as their predecessors, there’s little doubt here, the “core four” as they call themselves proving both charming and heartfelt. But easy access to the series via streaming and an increased appetite for the horror genre led to a hyped resurrection and last year’s simply titled Scream became a surprise hit, re-engaging the OG 90s kids while also inspiring a legion of new bloodthirsty fans. As with 1997’s Scream 2, we didn’t need to wait that long with the worryingly rushed Scream VI out just over a year later, survivors re-assembling for more meta mayhem.

I have the same knowledge as everyone who's seen Scream 6 trailers and read subsequent news articles. These are the thoughts of a horror fan who loves the ...

Unless the Sidney Prescott erasure news is all a public ruse to throw Scream fans off the scent of a bombshell redirection. My money is on a "Cult of Ghostface" in Scream 6 as the most viable later-franchise twist, which seems right in line after Scream roasted contemporary "arthouse" horror and the rebootquel effect. It's essentially a sequel to Leprechaun in the Hood without care taken to honor past entries, playing outside older franchise lines with low-riders and bongwater gags. Maybe the shrine room is more than a treasure trove — it’s a tether to atrocities that power a Ghostface cult’s sadistic ritual. Chucky was hiding under our noses for a good chunk of Curse of Chucky, which is the shocking realization that a sixth Child's Play movie drops like a bombshell. The Curse of Thorn diversion was panned by critics and audiences alike, making Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers a low franchise point by consensus. Or maybe it is supernatural, and the cult reveals some Necronomicon variation filled with pages that could complete a blasphemous ritual. Talking to Ghostface on the phone, Gale says, "It never works out for the dipshit in the mask." Some believe Stu's return would be an embarrassment to the Scream franchise, but it's the exact kind of horror franchise commentary that would suit a fifth Scream sequel. The whole idea of Hellseeker is that what we see isn’t what we get by the credits, and it all starts with a fan favorite deceptively eating Ghostface’s knife right out of the gate. In the zaniest swing that goes full Hellseeker, Gale dies as the honored cold-open kill only to reappear at the end as a mastermind who stages her own death and outsmarts the newest Ghostface duo. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin — two-thirds of the American filmmaker trio Radio Silence responsible for last year’s Scream and other chillers like Ready or Not — along with writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick proved in 2022’s Scream (the fifth film in the franchise) that they understand Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's approach to genre satirization, which we hope will continue in Scream 6.

The Scream franchise is heading to New York City. However, while this is a worthy follow-up to 2022's Scream, it doesn't make much use of its unique ...

The movie could have happened in San Francisco or Seattle or Boston without anyone really noticing, and it feels like something cool could have been done here to make such a drastically different city feel like more integral part of the proceedings. The marketing campaign made a big deal of Ghostface moving to the city, but the Big Apple isn't really a character in the film outside of one subway scene that could have happened on any metropolis public transit. Meanwhile, the survivors of Scream (2022) have created their own pod when we reunite with them in Scream VI. It's a different backdrop than Woodsboro, but it never feels like the crew needed to be in New York or that it added anything special to this Ghostface's kills or overall motive. We'll go ahead and tell you that the killer's time with a firearm is showcased in its entirety during the trailer and otherwise doesn't stray from their murder weapon of choice. The first rule you learn in screenwriting class is that a good movie comes with a surprising but inevitable end.

Scream 6 continues the legacy of Ghostface, but does Matthew Lillard return as Stu Macher in the sequel, or is he truly dead?

You’d think he’d SURVIVE?” In an interview thereafter with [TooFab](https://toofab.com/2020/05/12/matthew-lillard-scream-5-scooby-doo/), he said: “There’s nobody that wouldn’t want to come back and reprise a role they got to do when they were a boy, and be able to do something different as a man would be exciting. The “Stu is alive” theory has been floated to cast and crew across the Scream franchise, including his earlier co-star Skeet Ulrich. Who knows?” “I really hope so. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/MatthewLillard/status/1304280508457603073): “I mean… Lillard first appeared in 1996’s Scream, the launchpad for one of horror’s most beloved franchises.

'Scream 6' finds new blood in the Scream franchise, a nostalgic look at the past that also manages to feel original in its apporach.

Scream VI might be a sequel to a requel, but this franchise still finds new ways to feel original in its approach to this world. It finds just the right combination of nostalgia and fresh blood, telling a story that manages to feel familiar in its winks at the past, but breaking with tradition in ways that are exciting and new for this series. But Vanderbilt and Busick go even further than Scream 2, as we learn that the killer has a “shrine” of sorts dedicated to the history of the killers. Further, with this new Ghostface leaving masks from previous killers at the scenes of his attacks, the answer to the new killer might be in the past. However, the internet has run rampant with rumors that Sam might’ve actually been the killer, setting up this pair to get away with her murders, and with her still feeling the influence of her father, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), she worries that murder might be in her family’s blood. This self-awareness has made Scream one of the most fun slasher series, as each additional entry can use new trends in horror and films in general to examine the culture of the time.

There's sisters Samantha (Melissa Barrera) and Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) and twins Chad (Mason Gooding) and Mindy Meeks (Jasmin Savoy Brown). They believe ...

She was the best part of “In the Heights” and I’d love to see her breakout in a better movie. Most of the frights here come in the form of Ghostface chasing the characters around apartments, stores, warehouses. The story goes that the four survivors of the last film leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in Manhattan.

Craven revitalized the slasher sub-genre of horror in 1996 by taking the tropes that had defined the niche corner of cinema for decades, and twisting them to ...

However, the franchise is strong enough to stand on its own, and with the addition of While Scream 6 doesn’t have an array of kills as creative as the Friday The 13th series — the sleeping bag murder is iconic — it keeps the kills coming with enough consistency and gore to scratch the itch of its blood thirsty target audience. Even Scream 6’s change of setting is a purposeful homage to the trend of long running horror franchises uprooting their cast and moving them to a large city in a later sequel. She’s the scream queen, final girl that has acted as the back bone of the franchise since the original. Part of what makes Scream such a fun and entertaining franchise — especially for horror fans — is its comedic dissection of the rules and road maps that the genre clings to. Now, in 2023, the terror continues with Scream 6, as Ghostface moves out of the suburbs and into the city.

This is a spoiler-free review of Scream VI, which releases in theaters March 15, 2023. “Rebootquels will continue until morale improves” would be a great ...

And while some of the praise belongs to the closeness the writers give us to the Core Four, a not insignificant amount of the credit needs to go to the aforementioned actors. The heart and soul of Scream 6 is that aforementioned Core Four (made up of the Meeks-Martin twins and the Carpenter sisters). Some of the set pieces in this chapter will take your breath away, whether it’s the immaculate representation of an unbearably claustrophobic subway car or the jarring illustration of a person’s obsession in the Stab trophy room. We’re not going to get into the nitty gritty of that monologue, but one thing the young Meeks-Martin highlights is that the gore must be amplified in a rebootquels’ sequel, and boy is it ever! This time it’s full meta, and the butt of the joke is Scream itself. But, while it is the Sidney Prescott of it all, it’s not what you think.