Scream: Movie Review
Scream: Movie Review Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid Director: Matt Bettinelli-Opin and Tyler Gillet It's fair to say that the fifth iteration of the Scream franchise wants to have all its bloody cake and eat it. Part requel, part homage to the original film, and all meta slasher whodunnit, Scream sees Woodsboro under attack again from Ghostface and his trusty knife. But this time, it's a new seemingly more vicious series of attacks and targets that take the killer's fancy, and as the killing spree escalates, it sees the return of the original trio of Dewey, Gale Weathers and Sidney Prescott to the fray... There are moments within Scream where the meta touches and long discussions about the rules of the series prove to be too much; times when the winking at the audience and overt touches of love to the first film of the series seems about to cripple proceedings. It does want to riff on toxic films and their f...