5CREAMS is a 2018 American horror slasher film and the fifth and final installment of the Scream movie franchise. The film stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Bella Thorne, Alexandra Shipp, Graham Phillips, Nick Robinson, Patrick Dempsey, Matthew Lillard, Kodi Smith McPhee, Kaley Cuoco Sweeting, Joey King, KJ Apa, Bailee Madison, Chloe Grace Moretz, James Ransone, Olivia DeJonge, Austin Nichols, Judy Greer, Darce Montgomery, Portia de Rossi and Rebecca Gayheart.
The film was directed by Adam Wingard and written by Kevin Williamson. The film was released on May 4, 2018 to favorable reviews and was a box office smash with critics calling it a return to form for the series and Dimension Films distributes it.
Plot
The film opens up on the ending of the first film. In 1996, Stu Macher's corpse is loaded into an ambulance on the way to the morgue. At the morgue, a medical examiner examines Stu's corpse until Stu suddenly springs up and slashes the examiner's throat with a scalpel and stabs him to death. Stu then robs the examiner of his clothes and escapes.
Twenty years later in 2016, Lois Kline and Murphy Carter from the second film return to their condo after their Windsor University reunion. They discuss about Stab becoming a tv series until Murphy's phone starts to ring. She answers her phone to discover Ghostface threatening her but she brushes it off as a prank call and hangs up. She and Lois decide to watch Stab as Lois goes to the garage to get a drink. As the movie starts, Ghostface calls Murphy again and a simple conversation begins about Stab. When Murphy brings up the upcoming Stab television series, Ghostface replies by saying that they're doing the pilot on location. A confused Murphy asks him what did he meant by that but Ghostface tells her to go to the garage to see what he meant.
When Murphy gets to the garage, she finds it soaked in blood with broken beer bottles all over the floor. A scared Murphy slowly walks over to the fridge and opens it to find Lois's gutted corpse inside. Murphy screams in terror and runs back into the condo where she is forced to play trivia questions about horror tv shows. When getting a question on The Walking Dead wrong, Murphy is then chased throughout the condo until she hides in a closet. Murphy then attempts to call the police but while doing so, another Ghostface appears behind her and stabs her in the back, causing her to fall out of the closet.
An injured Murphy tries to flee the bedroom but the real Ghostface appears and stabs her in the stomach and neck. As Murphy lies on the floor dying, the two Ghostfaces proceed to viciously stab her to death and eventually gutting her.
The next day, Sidney Prescott has moved on from the 2010 Woodsboro Murders caused by her cousin Jill Roberts and is engaged to Tim Wright, a famous novelist who has a rebellious foster daughter, Cassie Lauren. Dewey Riley and his wife Gale are on the verge of a divorce and are not getting along like they used to. It wasn't long until the news of the deaths of Lois and Murphy hits Woodsboro and a police investigation begins.
At Woodsboro High School, Cassie begins her first day making friends like Sean Derrickson, Claire Warren, Jessica James, Aaron Taylor, Terry Forbes, Stephanie Decker, Sadie Errickson and Camden Warner. As the kids discuss last night's murders at the school fountain, Cassie gets entranced by the school's popular quarterback, Ronnie Bennett. Back at home, Dewey and his new deputy, Erin Hicks who is the sister of the recently deceased Judy Hicks are investigating the murders of Lois and Murphy with Dewey hinting that there might be two killers doing a new string of murders while Deputy David Morris thinks that Jill Roberts is still alive and is hiring accomplices to do the murders which worries Sidney since the recent deaths happen to fall on the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Woodsboro murders.
Meanwhile, a series of terrifying events unfold in one night as Sadie, Terry and Camden get threatening phone calls from Ghostface at Sadie's house which results in their deaths. Camden gets his throat slashed as they attempt to leave the house to get help and Terry and Sadie get involved in a car crash instigated by Ghostface who stabs Sadie to death before car crashes into a tree, mortally injuring Terry before being stabbed in the forehead by Ghostface. This kills Terry and Ghostface exits the car before it blows up in a fiery explosion.
Later that evening, Cassie visits the video store to see Claire working as an employee. Claire then informs her that Randy Meeks used to work at the store and is reinventing the store. As the girls talk, they bump into Kendall Morris, the sister of Olivia Morris. As they console Kendall for Olivia's death that happened 6 years ago, Cassie receives a threatening call from Ghostface who proceeds to stalk and chase the girls throughout the store. Cassie, Claire and Kendall hide in the store room and finds a window to escape. As the girls climb out the window, Ghostface breaks into the store room and brutally kills Claire by stabbing and gutting her as Kendall and Cassie escape the store room.
As the girls run out of the alley, they run into Gale who takes them back to Sidney's where Hicks and Morris put them and their friends who stopped by to visit under protection. When a tearful Cassie talks about how Claire died, Sean brings up the rules of an alternative sequel:
- The film has to ignore unnecessary sequels that the franchise.
- The film has to pick up where the first film left off while retconing the first film's ending to break new ground for originality.
- Any new or old characters have to die while staying true to the source material and an old villain might return for revenge.
- The old rules still apply.
As Sean explains the rules, Sidney overhears the conversation and fears that someone from the past is haunting the present.
Cast
Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott
David Arquette as Dewey Riley
Courteney Cox as Gale Riley
Chloe Grace Moretz as Kendall Morris
Bailee Madison as Cassie Lauren
Kodi Smith McPhee as Sean Derrickson
Austin Nichols as Tim Wright
James Ransone as Deputy David Morris
Darce Montgomery as Camden Warner
Graham Phillips as Terry Forbes
KJ Apa as Ronnie Bennett
Nick Robinson as Aaron Taylor
Patrick Dempsey as Mark Kincaid
Bella Thorne as Jessica James
Judy Greer as Sharron Blake
Matthew Lillard as Stu Macher
Kaley Cuoco Sweeting as Deputy Erin Hicks
Alexandra Shipp as Stephanie Decker
Olivia DeJonge as Sadie Erickson
Joey King as Claire Warren
Portia de Rossi as Murphy Carter
Rebecca Gayheart as Lois Kline