The latest installment in the Scream franchise has left fans underwhelmed, with a disappointing twist that attempts to poke fun at toxic fandoms but falls flat.
is getting to check it out. As such, social media is once again lighting up wth reactions to the film, and the overall consensus seems clear: many fans are saying thatsees franchise heroine Sidney Prescott trying to live a quiet life, running a coffee shop, and living with her husband Mark and their kids.
Sidney’s eldest daughter, Tatum is a teenager who is constantly butting heads with her infamous mom. But when a new Ghostface decides that Tatum is the one to die, Sidney goes to war to protect her family. Sidney is plagued by “video” from the original Ghostface, Stu Macher , who claims to have survived the first film and is coming to exact his revenge on Tatum.
However, by the time the showdown happens , it’s revealed that the killer is actually Marco Davis , a supervisor at a mental institutionThe trio wanted to “retire” Sidney as a “final girl ,” but Karl dies early on in a botched raid on Sidney’s house. Marco and Jessica instead plan to kill Sidney and make Tatum witness it, thereby repeating the same trauma Sidney endured as a teen, forging Tatum into the new final girl of thebased on Sidney’s life.
Of course, Sidney, Tatum, and Mark come together and kill Marco and Jessica, ending the threat. , as the film is instead a more straightforward story of Sidney and her family battling Ghostface.
However, the finale tries to pull off the clever “twist” of making the killers into satirical metaphors for toxic fandoms and their overly obsessive fans, while poking fun at the entire argument about). Sure, it may have been clever on a meta level, but it really did disappoint as a killer reveal.
Most fans called it from the moment they saw character actors like Ethan Embry is certainly remembered for pioneering a new age of self-aware horror, such as Randy’s famous speech about “The Rules” of horror flicks. However,‘s enduring legacy really came from the climactic reveal that both Billy Loomis and Stu Macher were Ghostface.
The series has since made a staple out of climactic killer reveals that feature a character we’ve already met, who also have some kind ofnot only breaks the pact with viewers about what kind of mystery they’ll get, it also arguably pulls the rug out from under fans while simultaneously mocking the fandom for being so impassioned about the series. What’s even worse is that Kevin Williamson both wrote and directed this seventh installment.
It feels like there’s a personal grudge being worked out through this film, and while it may have been cathartic for Williamson , it wasn’t very much fun for fans.
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