![]() ![]() Sam Carpenter is a subpar horror heroine. But as she's a mere shadow of Sidney Prescott, it's hard to feel all that invested. This means their deaths feel like little more than a pit stop to the inevitable destination: a showdown between Sam Carpenter and Ghostface 6.0. The new batch of buddies are so thinly drawn that they're sufficiently described as roommates and love interests, without much interest besides. But so little effort is put into developing them that it’s virtually impossible to feel gutted when they are, well, gutted. And all are fair game to be the killer or killed. ![]() Scream VI is stuffed with characters, legacy and new. The big problem is there are too few characters to give a damn about. In that pursuit, the filmmakers lose track of making this thriller stirring. ![]() Partially because the bonkers death by garage door (Opens in a new tab) is long behind us (RIP, Tatum), but more importantly, because of the expectations demanded of a slasher franchise this long-running. The body count is higher, and the close-ups of mutilated corpses are ghoulishly unflinching. It's not enough that there be blood and stabbings in the opening. There’s an unrepentant malice in these kill scenes. And what’s left behind are grisly kills without the frenzied fun. Yet we fans demand it, right? So lip service is paid in a convoluted cold open and the requisite Randy (Opens in a new tab) round-up (Opens in a new tab) of rules, inherited by his niece, Scream V fan favorite Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown).īut behind the iconic mask and the smug prattle, this franchise has lost its spirit. But having posited a slew of rabid fans as killers in Screams 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, there’s little new terrain to tread. Sure, this franchise still features movie nerds eagerly bickering over the finer points of the genre. Yet, they’ve even gone and messed with the mask, giving it the try-hard gritty patina snatched from David Gordon Green's grubby but underwhelming Halloween resurrection. The strongest tie to the horror hit that started it all is Ghostface. At what point can we keep calling these Scream movies?īy Scream VI, Sidney Prescott has left us in her rearview mirror. ![]()
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