Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett

Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Marley Shelton

Synopsis:

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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It’s been more than 25 years and it’s still hard to believe that the premise for “Scream” worked once, let alone multiple times. The slasher-movie franchise, originally written by Kevin Williamson and directed, until this latest installment, by the late “Master of Horror” Wes Craven, took the framework of tawdry, low-rent slasher flicks and built on those ramshackle bones a dense multi-generational ensemble drama, infused with self-aware meta-humor, and riddled with violent set pieces that, at their best, are among the best in the genre.

After four films inspired by, in succession, slasher movies, cash-in sequels, Hollywood scandals, and flimsy reboots, the time has once again come to set the “Scream” franchise loose to criticize the current state of horror-movie affairs. And although the new “Scream” comes from new screenwriters and new filmmakers, it still fits impressively into the longstanding tradition. Their “Scream” is a very, very, very fine “Scream.”

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