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DON’T REBOOT THE ‘SCREAM’ FRANCHISE AGAIN — END IT FOR GOOD

By Johnny Oleksinski

Published Nov. 24, 2023, 4:59 p.m. ET


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Ghostface’s go-to creepy phone question is, “Do you like scary movies?”

Increasingly our reply to Wes Craven’s masked serial killer is, “Yes! Unless, of
course, it’s another ‘Scream’ sequel.”

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Oh, how tedious this once delectable film series has become. What started in
1996 as a clever and frightening send-up of the horror genre with appealing
young stars has stumbled klutz-like into mediocrity, cuteness and groan-worthy
predictability. 

Some say campy. I say snooze-o-rama.

Well, lucky us, a perfect storm of events went down this week that made me
scream with joy.  

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Actress Melissa Barrera, who’s appeared in the previous two movies as Sam —
pretty much Sidney Prescott 2.0 — was fired from “Scream 7” for pro-Palestine
social media posting that the film’s studio, Spyglass Media, said “flagrantly
crosses the line into hate speech.” 

And her co-star Jenna Ortega, who played Sam’s little sister Tara, was revealed
not to be returning for “7” reportedly due to her demanding shooting schedule
for the Netflix series “Wednesday.”

Your popular, young leads are out the door, so it’s time to call it quits and
spare us another one of these duds, right?

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Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera won’t be returning for “Scream 7.”
©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection

Wrong. According to Deadline, writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick are headed
back to the drawing board to create an entirely new story (insofar as one can)
that could incorporate past stars who’ve already popped into the reboot movies
with all the energy of Madame Tussauds wax figures, including Neve Campbell and
Courteney Cox.

Getting Campbell onboard again would be a tall order. The 50-year-old actress
appeared in the fifth movie but opted against returning for the sixth when the
studio’s salary offer wasn’t high enough.

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“I did not feel that what I was being offered equated to the value that I bring
to this franchise, and have brought to this franchise, for 25 years,” she told
People.

Campbell also hates that the filmmakers killed off David Arquette’s Dewey.

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“I was so sad about Dewey’s death,” Campbell said this month at Monster-Mania
Con. “I thought it was tragic, and I don’t usually like to criticize the writing
in these projects.”

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Neve Cambell and Courteney Cox could return in a seventh film.
Paramount/Courtesy Everett

Even if Campbell and Cox agree to come back to do battle with Ghostface once
more, why bother? Here’s a better idea than begging former stars to make stilted
cameos — just kill off this series for good. Its best days are far behind it.

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In the 2020s, “Scream” is nothing more than soothing millennial nostalgia bait.
A cinematic Ring Pop. And anything that was ever cutting-edge about it has long
since gone dull. The only thing terrifying about “6” was how crummy a job they
did making Montreal look like New York City.

As cinematic horror has excitingly forged ahead, “Scream” is still stuck
bragging about its flip phone.

The genre is at its rip-roaring best when it fully embraces the present, like
“Get Out” and “M3GAN” so brilliantly did.

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“Scream 6,” I grant you, performed well at the box office, grossing $169 million
worldwide. But some of that success can be attributed to Ortega’s growing
popularity. And a seventh chapter doing gangbusters business is hardly
guaranteed.

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After 27 years of stabbings, Ghostface is past his prime. Paramount

Audiences can be fickle and particularly discerning when it comes to scary
movies. Look at the recent “Halloween” reboot trilogy — the longer it chugged
along, the more its box-office take slid.

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What do you think? Post a comment.

And Universal coughed up a mammoth $400 million for the rights to make three
“Exorcist” films, only for “The Exorcist: Believer” to gross $135 million
worldwide and score dreadful reviews in October. 

Instead of letting “Scream” befall a similar fate, Ghostface should ghost us
pronto.


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