Scream (also known as Scream 5) is a 2022 American slasher horror film and the fifth and final installment of the Scream franchise. The film was directed by Matt Benttinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and was written by Guy Busick and James Vanderblit from a story concieved by Kevin Williamson.
The film takes place almost ten years after Scream 4 with the story of a young woman returning to the town of Woodsboro where a series of gruesome murders connected to an infamous serial killer and a murder connected to a previous string of murders that took place ten years before. With old and new faces on her side and with no one to trust, she decides to solves the mystery connected to a rebellious teen and put an end to the murders as the body count rises.
The film stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Marley Shelton, Matthew Lillard, Heather Matarazzo and Hayden Pannettiere who reprised their roles from previous films in the series. Joining the cast is Sophia Lillis, Judah Lewis, Dylan Minnette, Isabelle Fuhrman, Mikey Madison, Mason Gooding, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Toni Collette, Jack Quaid, Anne Hathaway, Jasmine Savoy-Brown, Kyle Gallner, Peyton List, Mason Cook and Sonia Ben Ammar.
The film was released on January 14th, 2022 by Paramount Pictures and was a box office success, grossing $355 million dollars worldwide. The film received very favorable reviews from critics and fans alike for it's performances, cast, screenplay, inventive deaths and for it's finale but it's overtly long runtime and different approach received a very divided response.
Plot
Picking up a month after the events of Scream 4, Kirby Reed is recovering from the wounds she inflicted from Charlie Walker and Jill Roberts. When her mother leaves for some errands, Kirby's friend Samantha Carpenter comes over to visit Kirby and to pay some respects for the murders that happened the previous month. While the girls discuss ideas for a vigil being held at Woodsboro High School, they receive a threatening phone call from Ghostface which leads to a vicious attack on the girls. Samantha is knocked out while Kirby is violently stabbed to death, disemboweled and strapped to a lawn chair for Samantha, a returning Mrs. Reed and Kirby's little sister Allison to discover.
Seven years later in 2018, troubled New Hampshire teenager Casey Miller is caught by police for malicious mischief and petty stealing. Her social worker, Sara Templeton is at the end of her rope and gives Casey a reprieve by finding her a foster home, placing her on watch as part of her probation. Sara and Casey fly from New Hampshire to Woodsboro where Casey finds that her foster parent turns out to be Sidney Prescott. During dinner, Casey meets Dewey Riley, now a chief of the Woodsboro police department, Gale Riley, Martha Meeks and her eccentric daughter Mandy, whom Casey befriends.
The next day, Casey begins her first day at Woodsboro High where she struggles to fit in until she meets Mandy's Cinema Club members Daniel Farney, Madison Benson, Amber Freeman, Brandon Ross, Allison, who is now 17 and Tara Carpenter, Amber's girlfriend and Samantha's younger sister and even becomes friends with Wesley Hicks, the nephew of Judy Hicks. She also makes enemies with mean girls Olivia Mackenzie and Mindy Martin who try to instigate a fight with Casey but Mandy fights with Mindy which lands the two girls in detention. After school, Tara heads home to find that Samantha, who is now a jounalist, has returned to Woodsboro to get the story on Kirby Reed's death. Tara is annoyed with Samantha's persistence with the story of her death and calls her out for being desperate.
That night at Mindy's house, Mindy and her boyfriend Chad Blaze both receive threatening and malicious phone calls and texts by someone using the guise of Ghostface and are both brutally murdered with Chad being crushed to death by the garage door and Mindy being stabbed to death and hung from a tree for Casey and Sidney to discover in the backyard. An investigation begins as the news of the deaths hits Woodsboro especially Allison, remembering Kirby's death in the past.
The kids discuss Chad and Mindy's death, explaining their resentments towards them and comparing them to the Stab films which Casey has never heard of. Upon being asked by Casey about the Stab films, Daniel explains that the Stab film were based on the events of The Woodsboro Massacre of 1996, The Windsor College Murders of 1997 and The Hollywood Murders of 2000. When Daniel lets slip of the murders conducted by Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker that took the life of Kirby, Allison suffers an emotional meltdown and yells at Daniel never to mention her deceased sister again, storming out of the cafeteria, shocking the group.
Casey tries to go after Allison but Madison stops her, telling her to let Allison cool off. This discussion leaves Casey troubled and distraught but Brandon comforts her. Meanwhile, Samantha enters the crime scene for any information on the recent death for her story but is surprised by an officer who tells her to leave. She recognizes the officer as Richie Kirsch, an old flame from her days at Woodsboro High and they reconnect but Richie tells her to let Kirby's death go. That night, Sidney is returning from an errand from the supermarket until she gets a threatening call from Ghostface, who tells her that he will finish what he started in 1996.
Worried and scared, Sidney races home to stop him from killing Casey. At the house however, Casey receives a call from Ghostface who viciously attacks her but she narrowly escapes the house, sustaining a slashed arm in the process.
Cast
- David Arquette as Dewey Riley
- Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott
- Courteney Cox as Gale Riley
- Marley Shelton as Judy Hicks
- Heather Matarazzo as Martha Meeks
- Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface
- Sophia Lillis as Casey Miller
- Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter
- Judah Lewis as Brandon Ross
- Mason Gooding as Chad Blaze
- Kyle Gallner as Officer Vincent Rose
- Isabelle Fuhrman as Amanda "Mandy" Meeks
- Dylan Minnette as Wesley Hicks
- Peyton List as Allison Reed
- Mason Cook as Daniel Farney
- Mikey Madison as Amber Freeman
- Jasmine Savoy Brown as Mindy Martin
- Mellisa Barrera as Samantha Carpenter
- Jack Quaid as Richie Kirsch
- Sonia Ben Ammar as Olivia "Liv" Mackenzie
- Anne Hathaway as Sara Templeton
- Millie Bobby Brown as Madison Benson
- Uriah Shelton as Bennett Ulrich
- Mathew Lillard as Stu Macher
- Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed
- Toni Collette as Pamela Reed
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