Scream 5 in Development

[Deck Rickard]

I’m angry at my myself that I paid extra to rent this when I could have just waited a week or two and watched it on Paramount. It wasn’t worth spending money on.

 

[Captain Tired]

I agree. It was mildly enjoyable but I wouldn't have ever paid to see it. Thank God for illegal streaming.

 

[BatLobster]

This benefitted from the theatrical experience IMO. It was great to see a fun slasher on the big screen with big sound and a stoked audience. Seeing the franchise vets on the big screen again felt right, like coming home. It was the type of movie experience I had been missing during the height of the pandemic.

Sure, there are some flaws with it, but it's on par with the franchise as a whole, a fun ride and I think it was a lot better than a Scream 5 without Wes Craven had any right to be.

 

[DyeLorean]

It's refreshing to see a straight-up slasher today without supernatural or fantasy elements.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, maybe if I had seen it in a theater with people I would have been more into it.

But yes, I do agree that seeing a slasher without supernatural elements is refreshing. It was so annoying how, when you watch Halloween Kills, the only way you can buy that Michael Myers is able to survive everything he goes through is that he must be immortal. Well, that and the fact that he’s surrounded by morons who are incapable of pointing a gun at him unless they are close enough for him to grab it out of their hands lol.

 

[Web-Head]

This benefitted from the theatrical experience IMO. It was great to see a fun slasher on the big screen with big sound and a stoked audience. Seeing the franchise vets on the big screen again felt right, like coming home. It was the type of movie experience I had been missing during the height of the pandemic.

Sure, there are some flaws with it, but it's on par with the franchise as a whole, a fun ride and I think it was a lot better than a Scream 5 without Wes Craven had any right to be.

It's been a while since I watched Scream 2 but this is was definitely better than both Scream 3 and 4, that's for sure.

 

[The Joker]

Yeah, maybe if I had seen it in a theater with people I would have been more into it.

But yes, I do agree that seeing a slasher without supernatural elements is refreshing. It was so annoying how, when you watch Halloween Kills, the only way you can buy that Michael Myers is able to survive everything he goes through is that he must be immortal. Well, that and the fact that he’s surrounded by morons who are incapable of pointing a gun at him unless they are close enough for him to grab it out of their hands lol.

Yeah because guns have always been able to stop Michael in the previous Halloween movies haven't they. Kills is the first one to show him being immune to them. This was never introduced in the original movie at all

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah because guns have always been able to stop Michael in the previous Halloween movies haven't they. Kills is the first one to show him being immune to them. This was never introduced in the original movie at all

Look, most Halloween movies are terrible for sure and none of them are realistic. But HK really cranked up the stupid after a pretty solid return to form with Halloween 2018.

 

[The Joker]

Look, most Halloween movies are terrible for sure and none of them are realistic. But HK really cranked up the stupid after a pretty solid return to form with Halloween 2018.

Yeah he's stabbed in the neck with a knitting needle, then in the chest with his own knife, gets stabbed in the eye with a wire hanger, then shot six times at close range and falls out of a second floor window and walks away carefree. That's just in the original movie. But Halloween Kills cranked up the stupid as far as Michael's immortality goes. Ok.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah he's stabbed in the neck with a knitting needle, then in the chest with his own knife, gets stabbed in the eye with a wire hanger, then shot six times at close range and falls out of a second floor window and walks away carefree. That's just in the original movie. But Halloween Kills cranked up the stupid as far as Michael's immortality goes. Ok.

Dude, take a chill pill, will you? Is it a blow to your ego when people make fun of Halloween Kills? Weird hill to die on, man.

 

[The Joker]

Dude, take a chill pill, will you? Is it a blow to your ego when people make fun of Halloween Kills? Weird hill to die on, man.

I'm perfectly chill. And no. People blast it all the time on here. But at least most of those criticisms make some sense. Calling out Kills for doing something that's been in the franchise from the get-go and is one of Michael's defining traits is silly.

Anyway going off topic here. This is a Scream 5 thread.

 

[DyeLorean]

Michael Myers is fun and all but after so many years is like "ok... so what? What's the point here?". Maybe Halloween Kills isn't doing anything completely different but it has become repetitive and it showed.

In that regard Scream has an advantage, every time there's a fresh spin on it, whether you like it or not. The killers have different agendas, different ways of killing, their aggressiveness changes from film to film. That's why Scream, for me, has always been a step above in the slasher genre. It's always the same, but different.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, even if the culprits’ motives aren’t the best (and even if the actors also aren’t great), at least there’s an element of unpredictability with each film. You might figure it out early on, but you still have to figure it out and that makes it (at least initially) more intriguing than another movie about the same unkillable guy going around slaughtering people.

 

[Sawyer]

Finally saw this after getting the Blu-ray.

Spent the whole damn movie trying to figure out where I knew

Spoiler

the girl killer

from before I realized I saw Brad Pitt cave her face in with a can of dog food.

 

[Drizzle]

Finally saw this after getting the Blu-ray.

Spent the whole damn movie trying to figure out where I knew

Spoiler

the girl killer

from before I realized I saw Brad Pitt cave her face in with a can of dog food.

LOL, I had a similar realization and

Spoiler

I didn't place her until the end after the killer reveal when she was all unhinged. Honestly between her and Jack Quaid whose acting debut involved killing a child in The Hunger Games, I was kicking myself for not guessing that they were the killers right off the bat.

 

[zeptron]

Watched this a couple days ago and I can't say I'm too surprised that

Spoiler

Dewey died. I was expecting at least one of the main three from the previous films to kick the bucket this time.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Michael Myers is fun and all but after so many years is like "ok... so what? What's the point here?". Maybe Halloween Kills isn't doing anything completely different but it has become repetitive and it showed.

In that regard Scream has an advantage, every time there's a fresh spin on it, whether you like it or not. The killers have different agendas, different ways of killing, their aggressiveness changes from film to film. That's why Scream, for me, has always been a step above in the slasher genre. It's always the same, but different.

Scream definitely has been more consistent with films, but I applaud Blumhouse for trying to get back to basics with Halloween and try to have a timeline that seems more seamless with Carpenters original. Yes, Halloween Kills has dumb characters and is more of a basic slasher movie, but I feel like that was gonna be a given with it being set the same night as the 2018 film. I think Ends will be a slower film closer to what the 2018 movie did. Halloween Kills gets a lot of hate, but I feel like too many people are harsh on it, especially when you compare it to the majority of the franchise, excluding Halloween 2018 and Halloween II. We still got that amazing 1978 opening scene which was impeccably recreated, a great performance by JJC as the Shape, amazing atmosphere and a good score. No cults or any of that BS to be found, and for that I'm grateful. My second favorite Halloween sequel too.

 

[The Joker]

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but Neve Campbell recently gave her personal ranking of the Scream movies. A couple of them actually surprised me. Her rankings are:

Scream
Scream 2
Scream 5
Scream 3
Scream 4

 

[Nardz937]

My girl did Scream 4 dirty but otherwise a fair ranking.

 

[Filmfreak]

That's probably my ranking as well.

 

[samsnee]

I’d flip her second and third choices

 

[The Shape]

Neve and I pretty much share the same rankings, if that’s true, which is cool. Scream 3 and 5 is probably a toss up for me and will flip flop as time goes on. (I love Scream 3)

Sidney knows her ****.

 

[DyeLorean]

She didn't have much to do in 4, she was always reacting to something instead of driving the story. I can see why maybe she doesn't like it as much.

 

[Filmfreak]

She had way more to do than in 5, though. I doubt that's her reasoning.

 

[mclay18]

Neve is so sweet in person. I went to ‘90s Con for her and the Boy Meets World cast two months ago — she did not disappoint.

If you go to a convention where she’s making an appearance, she is worth waiting for.