Scream 2022/Scream 5 – 6.5

Jadd J.A.D.D. Jadd This was a fun time at the movie theatre as far as fifth instalments go in a franchise. The first five minutes was solid it was full of suspension and dread like the original movie. This is the goriest put of the five of them, the other movies have been bloody and brutal but this movie really ramps the violence. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett made a love letter not only to the franchise but to Wes Craven himself. As far as the new cast goes the best actors are Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega and Jack Quaid. Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox are all taking charge when their on-screen with full-fleshed with dimension. I laughed a few times and some of the new rules that they have are interesting because it changes appropriately for the times we live in now and how the industry has changed. Now when the original three come into the movie it felt like a movie and actual characters came in. The new cast is good when it comes to their performances and I really wanted to like them. But their not as memorable as the original and they feel more like caricatures. The one thing I hate more is slasher movies is the Jump scares and there was way too many in this movie, some didn’t even need to be there. As silly and ridiculous as the previous four movies got they felt cinematic with their grit, atmosphere, and uneasiness. And with this felt like a polished CW TV movie. When the killer is revealed and the motivation is revealed it all fell flat. What made the original movie so good is that it was meta but it was a self-contained story. Here there is a reference every five seconds but there comes a point where it stops being a movie and starts being a fanfiction movie.