Film Review – Scream 7

The “Scream” franchise was rebooted in a way in 2022’s “Scream,” which provided a new, but not exactly fresh direction for the series, eventually rewarded with major box office returns. Another sequel followed the very next year, making it abundantly clear that fans weren’t all that interested in the highly pretzeled logic of the ongoing story, they merely wanted young characters to follow as Ghostface went about his business killing them off. It’s a mystery series without much mystery, but even a highly publicized behind-the-scenes disruption in casting after “Scream 6” can’t stop the big screen massacre from continuing, with “Scream 7” once again rewiring the saga to bring the pain, with original star Neve Campbell and screenwriter Kevin Williamson returning to action, with the latter taking on directorial duties as well. “Scream 7” hopes to get by with the usual in character revival and whodunit activity, but the batteries are noticeably run down in the latest chapter as strange ideas compete with bad ones for screen time. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com