Scream (2022)

A requel? First time I herd the term and based on the movie’s explanation, Scream 5 is a little better than the Force Awakens.

Going into this I kept thinking to myself “Does the world need another scream flick?” and as I watched it, I realized the world at least asked for one.

We literally live in a universe that Scream helped create. At one-point movies like this needed geeks like Randy Meeks from Scream and Scream 2 to explain the rules of a horror move, but now days, 25 years later, who does not know the rules Meeks laid out.

Scream 5 exist because even snice the fourth movie the horror movie genre has flip the script (with number 5 even given a shout out to Jordan Peele’s entry to the flipped script). Someone could have just did a podcast or a Youtube video about it but someone decided another horror flick geeking out on horror flicks would be the best way and what franchise does that better than Scream?

Scream 5’s main purpose was to tell a new generation who started this game. A notion that would have been a grander jester if the late great master of horror, Wes Craven was at least still around to see it, but without him, it only feels like the cash cow it is.

I don’t care who did it anymore, and the movie feels like who made it don’t care who did it anymore. All we care about is watching people get violently stabbed to death while humorously trying not to fall into every horror cliché in the book, and that is what number 5 did well.

Scream is not unique anymore and it knows that, so it does not really try. Instead Scream 5 made fun of it, which at most was a cool move.

It is funny that the movie mentions Star Wars The Force Awakens as an example for a requeal (would not be surprise episode 7 coin the term kinda like episode one coined the term prequel). Scream 5 seems like Horror’s example of the term, even doing certain things that full on mimic what the Force Awakens did, but Scream did the requel better because they did not take themselves seriously.