Scream 7

GenerationofSwine

10/10

3/3/2026

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're supposed to hate this because the left is boycotting it for.... reasons that make no real sense, but that's sort of the drill isn't it? If it ain't woke, review bomb it. And, to some extent the hate is a bit justified, it's not much better than Scream 3, but it's not as bad as Scream VI which, let's be honest, was yet another political lecture pretending to be entertainment. And that lack of politics in 7, that is probably the cause of the hate and the boycott. And it being about as good as Scream 3, well, when Scream 3 came out it SUCKED. But it's 2026, and in 2026 a movie like that is actually pretty pretty good in comparison to the absolute preachy lecturing gutter trash that has been nearly every movie for the past decade in a half. So what do you get? A pretty basic by the numbers horror movie with a twist you see coming like most every other pretty basic by the numbers horror movie. But you just get a horror movie, and it's just made to entertain. And in the era of politically partisan shreiking in absolutely everything, that is sort of a breath of fresh air.

Too splatter in my opinion. The suspense level is quite good but the ending has been quite disappointing to me. It could have been much better.

CinemaSerf

6/10

3/6/2026

I had very low expectations for this, so maybe that’s why at times I was surprised to find it was quite good. Scary? Well no, not really, and of course “Ghostface” has all the nimble dexterity and immortality features of a baddie from a “Scooby Do” cartoon so you can guess that there are at least two of them operating in cahoots. Given that was all going to be pre-programmed from the start, I thought Kevin Williamson did just a little better than anticipated with this. The new target for our Munchian terror is “Tatum” (Isabel May), the teenage daughter of the now battle-hardened “Sidney” (Neve Campbell) and her police chief husband “Mark” (Joel McHale). “Sidney” gets a series of threatening video calls from “Stu Macher” (Matthew Lillard) promising vengeance on her and her family. Isn’t he meant to be dead? Well regardless, soon the body count is starting to mount up and nobody knows just who they can trust. From here on in the wheels don’t so much come off as follow an increasingly preposterous plot line that once again reminds me that if you are the boy(friend) in any of these movies, then you have no more chance of survival than the men in the red shirts did in an edition of “Star Trek”. “Gale” (Courtney Cox) shows up to offer an helping hand and some luring airtime, but adds little as we head to a denouement that is based on the least likely candidate from the few left standing as the entire town smoulders in it’s own wreckage. These films deliver what they say on the can, and if you approach this in the spirit of been there and seen that, then this is no worse than the average production-line horror enterprises that Blumhouse churn out each month and I think you can safely assume that there will be a “Scream Ate”.