21 Things You Might Not Like in Scream VI
Twenty-seven years ago, a bunch of kids got sliced up in a pretty good whodunit that served as a commentary on the slasher genre. Now we are six episodes deep into the Scream franchise, and the whodunit has become an odd melodrama while the kills lead the plot. Rather than writing the story based on a villain with a motive, each installment (except three**) has been written to focus on the deaths of the shallow new characters. If that's the point of building a franchise and offering commentary, it's a pretty shallow talking point when the genre has more than enough examples that have more to say (check out Behind the Mask: The Rise of Lesley Vernon). That being said, this is a well-made and fun night at the movies, but if you aren't a Scream or horror fan you can wait for streaming. Plus, here's a numbered list of things you might not like in this movie:
Misuse of Samara Weaving
Violence - stabbing, shotgun, pistols
Interesting violence - ball tasing, reporter punching, face bricking
Inappropriate violence - protagonist going ham with a knife
Showing Friday the 13th Part 8 in a lazy "hey it's horror in New York" way
Character defining posters
Podcast posters
Roomate in the fridge cliche
Backstory through therapy
Discussion of sex, promiscuity, fucking
Language including shit, damn, and probably some fucking
Underage drinking and cockblocking
Coors
Escaping over drop with shaky ladder
Not leaving town because the police say so
Seeing the ghost of your dead father who you never met
Dramatic subway lights
Trusting everyone you said you could not trust
Calm character acting wild once revealed as killer
Excessive ambulance rides
Misuse of stinger
*RIP Dewey, the first main character to die since the second movie.
**Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 4 had good villains with solid motives. The rest are lazy at best.
Scream movie rankings:
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Scream 4 (2011)
Scream 5 (2022)
Scream 6 (2023)
Scream 3 (2000)