Horror The Scream Franchise Thread

[Wildcard]

Yeah, figured as much. I'm definitely avoiding this movie at all costs. The best thing the horror community can do is completely ignoring this crap and not giving it any money whatsoever.

I don't even want to watch this crap on bootleg.

 

[Filmfreak]

This is an even bigger mess than I thought. How Spyglass is an actual movie studio when they have this sort of mentality is mind blowing.

They didn't want to give the main star of the whole series a fair wage, they changed the directors that made this thing big again because they were in a hurry to produce another movie soon (look how that worked out for them), they fired the main star of the new movies for expressing an honest and human opinion in social media, by doing so they also lost every other actor, including one of the hottest names in Hollywood right now, then somehow kicked the replacement director as well (I'm curious what happened there) and then they all of a sudden offer Neve what she should have gotten in the first place, in a desperate attempt to win back fans.

These people are incompetent buffoons.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Spyglass is making themselves look worse and worse. wtf happened

 

[Mysteryman]

Spyglass is making themselves look worse and worse. wtf happened

Clearly, SOMETHING, Happened!

 

[Zantera]

While I get the hate for Spyglass and people boycotting left and right, for me the franchise was always about Sidney at its heart and even though I enjoyed and had fun with Scream 5 and Scream 6, the fact they are dropping the Carpenter sisters plot and are focusing back on Sidney is a good thing to me. I'm a bit hesitant about Williamson directing (writing is a different thing) but I didn't really love any of the characters in 5 or 6 and I guess I'm happy the focus is shifting back to the original characters more again.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Wildcard]

Starting new studios that are self-reliant is a great approach & I hope they run full speed ahead with their desire to do so. I'd definitely be interested in seeing what they'd cook up.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Going to see Abigail tonight.

 

[Mysteryman]

Going to see Abigail tonight.

I hear good things. I hope that you enjoy it.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I hear good things. I hope that you enjoy it.

Me too. Radio Silence has yet to let me down, honestly. and I love a good vampire flick.

 

[Kane52630]

You know, I still wish Radio Silence could make a full-length feature of that segment they did in V/H/S.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Wildcard]

Going to see Abigail tonight.

Really hope you had an awesome experience with it. I can't wait to check it out too.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Gothamsknight]

Really hope you had an awesome experience with it. I can't wait to check it out too.

Good news. Not only was Abigail fantastic, it's my favorite film of 2024 so far. Yes, I enjoyed it that much. I urge anybody who is a fan of horror films, radio silence, Melissa Barrera, and especially vampires, to go see the film. I can already see it being regarded a vampire classic.

 

[Wildcard]

Good news. Not only was Abigail fantastic, it's my favorite film of 2024 so far. Yes, I enjoyed it that much. I urge anybody who is a fan of horror films, radio silence, Melissa Barrera, and especially vampires, to go see the film. I can already see it being regarded a vampire classic.

Firstly, I'm super glad you enjoyed the film. Secondly, that makes me elated to know that this is as good as it looks from the trailers I've seen.

Gonna try to make sure I get a chance to see this one over the weekend.

 

[Lasirius]

Seeing Abigail tonight too!

 

[blueharvest]

 

[The Joker]

Well of course they listened to you. They fired one of their main stars for awful reasons and the other ditched them as a result. It was an act of desperation not respect for your pay entitlements. If Melissa and Jenna had stayed I don't believe for a second that Neve would be anywhere near this movie.

 

[Filmfreak]

Well of course they listened to you. They fired one of their main stars for awful reasons and the other ditched them as a result. It was an act of desperation not respect for your pay entitlements. If Melissa and Jenna had stayed I don't believe for a second that Neve would be anywhere near this movie.

I'm glad that Campbell got paid what she deserves but it comes out a bit self centered to have a sort of victory dance over it under the circumstances that it happened and how much worse the same people treated another woman and colleague of hers only a few weeks before that.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[The Shape]

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I know I certainly won't miss Barerra or the sisters in general. Let Campbell and Cox do their thing with '7' and wrap it up.

The whole ''I'm a little crazy like my Daddy'' thing got old real fast. A better actress might have sold her freak out moments but... meh!

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, I don’t think her character was particularly strong, so other than rallying behind her for behind the scenes reasons, I don’t think the franchise is going to suffer much without her character that wasn’t particularly memorable in the first place.

As for Jenna, she was never going to come back other than maybe a cameo even before all this went down. She was moving on, so that was never in the cards.

But hey, I thought Scream 6 was a step back from Scream 5, and I know there’s extreme fans for 6.

 

[Filmfreak]

Yeah, I don’t think her character was particularly strong, so other than rallying behind her for behind the scenes reasons, I don’t think the franchise is going to suffer much without her character that wasn’t particularly memorable in the first place.

As for Jenna, she was never going to come back other than maybe a cameo even before all this went down. She was moving on, so that was never in the cards.

But hey, I thought Scream 6 was a step back from Scream 5, and I know there’s extreme fans for 6.

I never cared for Barrera's character and even more so her acting in these films, so under normal circumstances I wouldn't mind that she's out. But even if we could ignore the reasons and way she was fired, creatively speaking they were building stuff for a third and probably final movie in the trilogy we will now probably never get, so it's a bummer to not see a conclusion and it pretty much makes many of the elements we've seen in the last two redundant. Also there's no guarantee what Ortega's role would be in the third one, despite having to film Wednesday.

So it's not just about the behind the scenes drama, it's that drama affecting the franchise creatively.