What is left of the old Woodsboro gang is back together, but this time leaving their horrific memories of battling the masked evil of Ghostface in return for college and a new life in New York City.
They should have known better. In this sixth edition of the franchise Kevin Williamson (who returns as Executive Producer) created in 1996, it is a direct continuation of the highly successful 2022 reboot of the series, or “requel” as the characters fondly refer to it, with the return of the “core four” survivors of that recent Ghostface assault in which, ironically for a horror franchise, most of the victims were the white characters, now leaving a diverse quartet including sisters Samantha Carpenter ( Melissa Barrera), the illegitimate daughter of original Ghostface Billy Loomis, and half sister Tara (Jenna Ortega, Wednesday) , along with their black twins and their BFFs Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and Chad (Mason Gooding) to hit college in the Big Apple and leave the trauma behind.
No such luck for this group who must carry on with carnage just like they never left home. No rest for the weary. Joining them along the way we do have the inevitable and welcome appearance of some of the surviving legacy characters including TV news reporter turned tell-all author Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox who has now appeared in all six Scream -a-thons) and FBI agent Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere who previously turned up in Scream 4).
The list of originals from a quarter century ago is dwindling, especially since Neve Campbell declined to return this time and her Sidney Prescott was written out with a throw-away one liner about moving on with her kids.
Read more on deadline.com